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A) 1900 B) 1896 C) 1920 D) 1888
A) Pride and Prejudice B) To Kill a Mockingbird C) The Great Gatsby D) 1984
A) This Side of Paradise B) The Beautiful and Damned C) Tender Is the Night D) The Last Tycoon
A) Los Angeles, California B) St. Paul, Minnesota C) New York City, New York D) Chicago, Illinois
A) Tender Is the Night B) The Great Gatsby C) This Side of Paradise D) The Beautiful and Damned
A) Virginia Woolf B) Ernest Hemingway C) William Faulkner D) Edith Wharton
A) The Great Gatsby B) This Side of Paradise C) Tender Is the Night D) The Beautiful and Damned
A) Jay Gatsby B) Nick Carraway C) Atticus Finch D) Holden Caulfield
A) Novel B) Short Stories C) Essays D) Poetry
A) Frederick B) Fabian C) Francis D) Felix
A) Yale University B) Princeton University C) Harvard University D) Stanford University
A) Korean War B) World War I C) Civil War D) Vietnam War
A) Six B) Three C) Five D) Four
A) Sheilah Graham B) Zelda Sayre C) Ginevra King D) Edith Wharton
A) Actor B) Producer C) Director D) Screenwriter
A) Edmund Wilson B) Ernest Hemingway C) Sheilah Graham D) Zelda Sayre
A) Remained stable B) Prospered C) Became wealthy D) Struggled financially
A) Bipolar disorder B) Schizophrenia C) Alzheimer's disease D) Depression
A) The New Yorker B) Collier's Weekly C) The Saturday Evening Post D) Esquire
A) Pneumonia B) Alcoholism C) Car accident D) Heart attack
A) Elizabeth Fitzgerald B) Sarah Fitzgerald C) Anne Fitzgerald D) Mary 'Molly' McQuillan Fitzgerald
A) A grocery store B) A textile mill C) A wicker-furniture manufacturing business D) A bank
A) For espionage during World War I B) For theft C) For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln D) During the Civil War
A) Procter & Gamble School B) Holy Angels Convent C) Buffalo High School D) Nardin Academy
A) He started a new business B) He won the lottery C) He retired D) He was fired from Procter & Gamble
A) Newman School B) St. Paul Academy C) Procter & Gamble Academy D) Buffalo High School
A) In a family newsletter B) On a national news website C) In the school newspaper at St. Paul Academy D) In a local magazine
A) Holy Angels Convent B) St. Paul Academy C) The Newman School in Hackensack D) Nardin Academy
A) His father, Edward Fitzgerald B) Father Sigourney Fay C) Fitzgerald's mother D) A school teacher
A) 1915 B) 1912 C) 1913 D) 1914
A) Edmund Wilson B) John Biggs Jr. C) Max Perkins D) John Peale Bishop
A) Daisy Buchanan B) Jordan Baker C) Isabelle Borgé D) Amory Blaine
A) Major B) Captain C) Second lieutenant D) Sergeant
A) General Douglas MacArthur B) Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower C) Colonel George Patton D) Major Richard Nixon
A) Tender Is the Night B) The Great Gatsby C) This Side of Paradise D) The Romantic Egotist
A) Penguin Books B) Harper & Brothers C) Random House D) Scribner's
A) Edmund Wilson B) Dwight D. Eisenhower C) John Peale Bishop D) Max Perkins
A) Give up writing B) Resubmit it after further revisions C) Submit it to another publisher immediately D) Abandon the manuscript
A) Chicago B) New York City C) Camp Mills, Long Island D) Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
A) An editor for a newspaper B) Zelda C) Ginevra D) His mother
A) Financial mismanagement B) Poor parenting C) Marital infidelities D) Lack of ambition
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald B) Maxwell Perkins C) Édouard Jozan D) T. S. Eliot
A) Teaching at a university B) Serving as an editor for a magazine C) Writing advertising copy D) Working as a journalist
A) Joseph Conrad's narrative style B) Willa Cather's lyrical prose C) Thomas Hardy's ironical-pessimistic style D) H. G. Wells' science fiction
A) A television series based on the novel B) A film adaptation in the 1930s C) A Broadway play D) The popular dust-jacket art named Celestial Eyes.
A) Babylon Revisited B) The Vegetable C) Winter Dreams D) The Great Gatsby
A) 5,000 copies B) 100,000 copies C) 10,000 copies D) Approximately 40,000 copies
A) 1921 B) 1923 C) 1924 D) 1922
A) 175 B) 164 C) 150 D) 200
A) A letter of apology B) His mother's ring C) A bouquet of flowers D) A book he wrote
A) "The bee's knees" B) "Top of the morning" C) "Gentlemen prefer blondes" D) "Old sport"
A) Narrative skill B) Imagination C) Engagement with socio-political issues D) Intellectual substance
A) Actor Lew Fields B) Cartoonist Rube Goldberg C) Writer Dorothy Parker D) Comedian Ed Wynn
A) H. L. Mencken B) Budd Schulberg C) Journalist Matthew Josephson D) Harold Ober
A) A silent drama B) A flapper comedy C) A romantic musical D) A war documentary
A) Reversion to traditional values B) Industrial revolution C) Post-war reconstruction D) Transition towards modernity
A) 1928 B) 1924 C) 1926 D) 1930
A) Worked a job repairing train car roofs B) Wrote articles for newspapers C) Taught English at a local school D) Performed in jazz clubs
A) Clear ethno-religious identity B) Obscure origins C) Old Stock American ancestry D) Established class status
A) Zelda Fitzgerald B) Sheilah Graham C) Ginevra King D) Harold Ober
A) James Joyce B) Virginia Woolf C) Ernest Hemingway D) Willa Cather
A) 100 rejection letters B) 200 rejection letters C) Over 122 rejection letters D) 50 rejection letters
A) Edmund Wilson B) Scottie C) Harold Ober D) Maxwell Perkins
A) December 25, 1918 B) July 4, 1921 C) March 26, 1920 D) January 15, 1919
A) A private sanatorium B) A university hospital C) A clinic D) A general hospital
A) Ernest Hemingway B) T.S. Eliot C) Gertrude Stein D) H. L. Mencken
A) An actor B) A banker C) A professor D) A gentleman bootlegger
A) Time Magazine B) Reader's Digest C) The Saturday Evening Post D) Vogue
A) An influential writer. B) A Hollywood hack. C) A talented actor. D) A successful director.
A) Whoring B) Elaborating C) Enhancing D) Simplifying
A) Personal satisfaction B) Money C) Artistic expression D) Critical acclaim
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" B) "Winter Dreams" C) "May Day" D) "The Off-Shore Pirate"
A) Germany B) Spain C) France D) England
A) London B) Rome C) French Riviera D) Paris
A) The New Yorker B) Metropolitan Magazine C) Vanity Fair D) Scribner's
A) Cultural knowledge B) Wealth C) Popularity D) Education
A) Gin-and-fruit concoctions B) Tea and biscuits C) Coffee and pastries D) Wine and cheese
A) Metamorphoses B) The Aeneid C) The Odyssey D) Satyricon
A) The Beautiful and Damned B) "Tender Is the Night" C) This Side of Paradise D) Save Me the Waltz
A) "The Ice Palace" B) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" C) "Winter Dreams" D) "Absolution"
A) $30 B) $10 C) $50 D) $100
A) Ludlow Fowler B) Ginevra King C) Max Perkins D) John V. A. Weaver
A) The Ritz-Carlton B) The Waldorf Astoria C) The Plaza Hotel D) The Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street
A) "Pickfair" B) "Ellerslie" C) "La Paix" D) "Towson Manor"
A) A morally permissive time when Americans became disillusioned with prevailing social norms and obsessed with self-gratification B) An era of strict moral codes and traditional values C) A period of economic depression and hardship D) A time of political stability and peace
A) "Winter Dreams" B) "The Ice Palace" C) "May Day" D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
A) $80 B) $200 C) $500 D) $1000
A) September 1918 B) November 1918 C) December 1918 D) February 14, 1919
A) 1923 B) 1924 C) 1925 D) 1926
A) Tender Is the Night B) This Side of Paradise C) A Lost Lady D) The Beautiful and Damned
A) Sexual recklessness B) Volunteering at a local hospital C) Writing poetry together D) Competing in sports
A) lung cancer B) stroke C) occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis D) pulmonary embolism
A) By the 1960s B) By the 1950s C) By the 1970s D) By the 1940s
A) Gatsby's Rise B) The Parvenu's Dream C) Trimalchio D) The Long Island Story
A) Warner Bros. B) Paramount Pictures C) MGM Studios D) United Artists
A) "Save Me the Waltz" B) "The Great Gatsby" C) "Tender Is the Night" D) "Magnetism"
A) The Beautiful and Damned B) Tender Is the Night C) The Great Gatsby D) This Side of Paradise
A) Budd Schulberg B) John O'Hara C) Edward Newhouse D) Charles Jackson
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" B) "Winter Dreams" C) "May Day" D) "The Rich Boy"
A) Burke Van Allen B) John V. A. Weaver C) Edith Wharton D) T. S. Eliot |