F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quiz
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  • 1. When was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) 1900
B) 1920
C) 1888
D) 1896
  • 2. What novel is F. Scott Fitzgerald best known for?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Great Gatsby
D) 1984
  • 3. Which one of Fitzgerald's novels was published posthumously?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) The Last Tycoon
  • 4. Where was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) St. Paul, Minnesota
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) New York City, New York
  • 5. What is the title of Fitzgerald's first novel?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Great Gatsby
D) The Beautiful and Damned
  • 6. Which writer was a close friend of Fitzgerald and influenced his writing?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Edith Wharton
C) William Faulkner
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 7. What is the last completed novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 8. What is the protagonist's name in 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Atticus Finch
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Nick Carraway
  • 9. 'Tales of the Jazz Age' is a collection of?
A) Poetry
B) Novel
C) Short Stories
D) Essays
  • 10. Fitzgerald's real first name is?
A) Felix
B) Francis
C) Fabian
D) Frederick
  • 11. Which university did F. Scott Fitzgerald briefly attend but did not graduate from?
A) Harvard University
B) Princeton University
C) Yale University
D) Stanford University
  • 12. In which war did Fitzgerald serve in the military?
A) Vietnam War
B) Korean War
C) Civil War
D) World War I
  • 13. How many novels did F. Scott Fitzgerald publish during his lifetime?
A) Four
B) Six
C) Five
D) Three
  • 14. Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife that struggled with mental health issues?
A) Zelda Sayre
B) Sheilah Graham
C) Edith Wharton
D) Ginevra King
  • 15. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's occupation in Hollywood?
A) Producer
B) Actor
C) Director
D) Screenwriter
  • 16. Who edited and published 'The Last Tycoon' after Fitzgerald's death?
A) Sheilah Graham
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Zelda Sayre
D) Edmund Wilson
  • 17. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's financial situation during the Great Depression?
A) Became wealthy
B) Prospered
C) Remained stable
D) Struggled financially
  • 18. What illness did Zelda Sayre suffer from?
A) Schizophrenia
B) Alzheimer's disease
C) Depression
D) Bipolar disorder
  • 19. Which magazine was NOT mentioned as one F. Fitzgerald wrote for?
A) The New Yorker
B) The Saturday Evening Post
C) Collier's Weekly
D) Esquire
  • 20. What was the cause of F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) Pneumonia
B) Alcoholism
C) Car accident
D) Heart attack
  • 21. What was Fitzgerald's mother's name?
A) Anne Fitzgerald
B) Elizabeth Fitzgerald
C) Mary 'Molly' McQuillan Fitzgerald
D) Sarah Fitzgerald
  • 22. Which business did Edward Fitzgerald start after the Civil War?
A) A textile mill
B) A bank
C) A wicker-furniture manufacturing business
D) A grocery store
  • 23. Where was Mary Surratt, related to Fitzgerald's father, executed?
A) During the Civil War
B) For theft
C) For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
D) For espionage during World War I
  • 24. Which school did Fitzgerald attend in Buffalo from 1905 to 1908?
A) Holy Angels Convent
B) Procter & Gamble School
C) Nardin Academy
D) Buffalo High School
  • 25. What happened to Fitzgerald's father in March 1908?
A) He started a new business
B) He was fired from Procter & Gamble
C) He won the lottery
D) He retired
  • 26. What school did Fitzgerald attend in Saint Paul after returning there?
A) St. Paul Academy
B) Procter & Gamble Academy
C) Newman School
D) Buffalo High School
  • 27. Where was the first piece of Fitzgerald's fiction published?
A) In the school newspaper at St. Paul Academy
B) In a local magazine
C) In a family newsletter
D) On a national news website
  • 28. Which Catholic prep school did Fitzgerald attend in New Jersey?
A) St. Paul Academy
B) The Newman School in Hackensack
C) Nardin Academy
D) Holy Angels Convent
  • 29. Who recognized Fitzgerald's literary potential at the Newman School?
A) A school teacher
B) Father Sigourney Fay
C) His father, Edward Fitzgerald
D) Fitzgerald's mother
  • 30. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald graduate from Newman?
A) 1912
B) 1915
C) 1913
D) 1914
  • 31. Who helped F. Scott Fitzgerald find a home in Delaware?
A) John Biggs Jr.
B) Max Perkins
C) Edmund Wilson
D) John Peale Bishop
  • 32. Which of the following characters was inspired by Ginevra King in 'This Side of Paradise'?
A) Isabelle Borgé
B) Amory Blaine
C) Daisy Buchanan
D) Jordan Baker
  • 33. Which military rank did F. Scott Fitzgerald achieve in the United States Army?
A) Major
B) Second lieutenant
C) Captain
D) Sergeant
  • 34. Who was the commanding officer of the training camp where Fitzgerald was stationed?
A) Major Richard Nixon
B) Colonel George Patton
C) Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) General Douglas MacArthur
  • 35. What was the title of the manuscript F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before World War I?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Romantic Egotist
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 36. Which publisher rejected 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Penguin Books
B) Harper & Brothers
C) Random House
D) Scribner's
  • 37. Who praised Fitzgerald's writing after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Max Perkins
B) Edmund Wilson
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) John Peale Bishop
  • 38. What did Max Perkins encourage Fitzgerald to do after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Submit it to another publisher immediately
B) Resubmit it after further revisions
C) Give up writing
D) Abandon the manuscript
  • 39. Where was Fitzgerald garrisoned with the 45th and 67th Infantry Regiments?
A) Chicago
B) Camp Mills, Long Island
C) New York City
D) Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
  • 40. What did Fitzgerald continue writing to after meeting Zelda?
A) An editor for a newspaper
B) Ginevra
C) Zelda
D) His mother
  • 41. What did Fitzgerald and Zelda engage in during his Montgomery sojourn?
A) Volunteering at a local hospital
B) Writing poetry together
C) Competing in sports
D) Sexual recklessness
  • 42. When was Fitzgerald discharged from the army?
A) September 1918
B) December 1918
C) November 1918
D) February 14, 1919
  • 43. What was Fitzgerald's job in New York City?
A) Serving as an editor for a magazine
B) Teaching at a university
C) Writing advertising copy
D) Working as a journalist
  • 44. How much did Fitzgerald earn for selling his first story?
A) $30
B) $10
C) $50
D) $100
  • 45. What did Fitzgerald send Zelda in March 1919?
A) A book he wrote
B) His mother's ring
C) A letter of apology
D) A bouquet of flowers
  • 46. What did Fitzgerald do while revising his novel?
A) Worked a job repairing train car roofs
B) Performed in jazz clubs
C) Taught English at a local school
D) Wrote articles for newspapers
  • 47. When was 'This Side of Paradise' first published?
A) March 26, 1920
B) July 4, 1921
C) January 15, 1919
D) December 25, 1918
  • 48. How many copies did 'This Side of Paradise' sell in its first year?
A) 100,000 copies
B) 10,000 copies
C) Approximately 40,000 copies
D) 5,000 copies
  • 49. Which critic hailed 'This Side of Paradise' as the best American novel of the year?
A) Gertrude Stein
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) H. L. Mencken
  • 50. Where did F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda relocate after being asked to leave the Biltmore Hotel?
A) The Waldorf Astoria
B) The Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street
C) The Plaza Hotel
D) The Ritz-Carlton
  • 51. What was the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) Tender Is the Night
  • 52. Who first encountered the Fitzgeralds riding on the roof of a taxi?
A) Cartoonist Rube Goldberg
B) Actor Lew Fields
C) Writer Dorothy Parker
D) Comedian Ed Wynn
  • 53. What did Fitzgerald liken the Jazz Age to in terms of societal behavior?
A) An era of strict moral codes and traditional values
B) A morally permissive time when Americans became disillusioned with prevailing social norms and obsessed with self-gratification
C) A time of political stability and peace
D) A period of economic depression and hardship
  • 54. What did the Fitzgeralds consume at every outing during the Jazz Age?
A) Wine and cheese
B) Coffee and pastries
C) Tea and biscuits
D) Gin-and-fruit concoctions
  • 55. What did the Fitzgeralds accuse each other of as their quarrels worsened?
A) Marital infidelities
B) Poor parenting
C) Financial mismanagement
D) Lack of ambition
  • 56. Where was 'The Beautiful and Damned' first serialized?
A) Vanity Fair
B) Scribner's
C) The New Yorker
D) Metropolitan Magazine
  • 57. What year was 'Tales of the Jazz Age' released?
A) 1923
B) 1921
C) 1922
D) 1924
  • 58. Which story did Fitzgerald describe as his first attempt at the Gatsby idea?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) Winter Dreams
C) The Vegetable
D) Babylon Revisited
  • 59. What phrase did Fitzgerald's neighbor Max Gerlach frequently use?
A) "Gentlemen prefer blondes"
B) "Old sport"
C) "Top of the morning"
D) "The bee's knees"
  • 60. What profession did Max Gerlach have after World War I?
A) A banker
B) A professor
C) A gentleman bootlegger
D) An actor
  • 61. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald move abroad to Europe?
A) 1926
B) 1924
C) 1925
D) 1923
  • 62. What was the initial title of The Great Gatsby?
A) The Parvenu's Dream
B) Trimalchio
C) Gatsby's Rise
D) The Long Island Story
  • 63. Which literary work is the initial title 'Trimalchio' an allusion to?
A) The Aeneid
B) Satyricon
C) Metamorphoses
D) The Odyssey
  • 64. Where did Fitzgerald and his family sojourn when he faced a marital crisis?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) French Riviera
D) London
  • 65. Who was Zelda infatuated with during their time on the French Riviera?
A) Édouard Jozan
B) T. S. Eliot
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Maxwell Perkins
  • 66. Which of these literary figures praised The Great Gatsby upon its release?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Virginia Woolf
C) James Joyce
D) Willa Cather
  • 67. What contributed to The Great Gatsby's later acclaim and popularity?
A) A Broadway play
B) A film adaptation in the 1930s
C) A television series based on the novel
D) The popular dust-jacket art named Celestial Eyes.
  • 68. Where did the Fitzgeralds spend time after wintering in Italy?
A) England
B) Germany
C) Spain
D) France
  • 69. Which magazine did Fitzgerald often write stories for?
A) Reader's Digest
B) Time Magazine
C) The Saturday Evening Post
D) Vogue
  • 70. How did Hemingway describe the changes Fitzgerald made to his stories for magazines?
A) Enhancing
B) Elaborating
C) Whoring
D) Simplifying
  • 71. In which year did the Fitzgeralds return to America after their time in Europe?
A) 1926
B) 1924
C) 1930
D) 1928
  • 72. What type of film was F. Scott Fitzgerald invited to write in Hollywood?
A) A war documentary
B) A silent drama
C) A flapper comedy
D) A romantic musical
  • 73. Which studio did John W. Considine Jr. represent when he invited Fitzgerald to Hollywood?
A) MGM Studios
B) Warner Bros.
C) United Artists
D) Paramount Pictures
  • 74. What was the name of the short story F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about Lois Moran?
A) "Tender Is the Night"
B) "The Great Gatsby"
C) "Save Me the Waltz"
D) "Magnetism"
  • 75. Where did Zelda undergo treatment for her mental illness in Switzerland?
A) A university hospital
B) A general hospital
C) A private sanatorium
D) A clinic
  • 76. What was the name of the estate in Maryland where Fitzgerald rented a place to work on his novel?
A) "Towson Manor"
B) "Pickfair"
C) "La Paix"
D) "Ellerslie"
  • 77. What was the title of Zelda Fitzgerald's fictionalized version of their experiences published in 1932?
A) The Beautiful and Damned
B) Save Me the Waltz
C) "Tender Is the Night"
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 78. Who criticized Fitzgerald's short stories in 1933?
A) Harold Ober
B) Journalist Matthew Josephson
C) H. L. Mencken
D) Budd Schulberg
  • 79. How much were Fitzgerald's book royalties by 1936?
A) $80
B) $1000
C) $500
D) $200
  • 80. Who was Fitzgerald's final companion before his death?
A) Harold Ober
B) Zelda Fitzgerald
C) Sheilah Graham
D) Ginevra King
  • 81. What did Fitzgerald mock himself as through the character of Pat Hobby?
A) A talented actor.
B) A Hollywood hack.
C) A successful director.
D) An influential writer.
  • 82. What health issue caused F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) pulmonary embolism
B) occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis
C) stroke
D) lung cancer
  • 83. Who successfully petitioned to move Fitzgerald and Zelda's remains to the family plot?
A) Maxwell Perkins
B) Harold Ober
C) Edmund Wilson
D) Scottie
  • 84. In which decade did F. Scott Fitzgerald become a cult figure in American culture?
A) By the 1940s
B) By the 1950s
C) By the 1960s
D) By the 1970s
  • 85. How many rejection letters did Fitzgerald receive for his early writings?
A) 100 rejection letters
B) 50 rejection letters
C) 200 rejection letters
D) Over 122 rejection letters
  • 86. Which novel did Gertrude Cather influence with its portrayal of a wealthy socialite?
A) A Lost Lady
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 87. Which literary style did 'The Beautiful and Damned' emulate?
A) Joseph Conrad's narrative style
B) Thomas Hardy's ironical-pessimistic style
C) H. G. Wells' science fiction
D) Willa Cather's lyrical prose
  • 88. Who observed that Fitzgerald showed a constantly growing mastery as an American novelist?
A) John V. A. Weaver
B) Burke Van Allen
C) Edith Wharton
D) T. S. Eliot
  • 89. How many short stories did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
A) 200
B) 175
C) 150
D) 164
  • 90. What was the primary impetus for Fitzgerald writing short stories?
A) Money
B) Artistic expression
C) Critical acclaim
D) Personal satisfaction
  • 91. What was the societal transition that defined the lives of the Jazz Age generation according to Fitzgerald?
A) Reversion to traditional values
B) Post-war reconstruction
C) Industrial revolution
D) Transition towards modernity
  • 92. What societal status did F. Scott Fitzgerald feel he lacked during his upbringing?
A) Cultural knowledge
B) Wealth
C) Popularity
D) Education
  • 93. What is a key characteristic of Jay Gatsby that reflects Fitzgerald's own sense of otherness?
A) Old Stock American ancestry
B) Obscure origins
C) Established class status
D) Clear ethno-religious identity
  • 94. What did Edmund Wilson believe Fitzgerald lacked in his early works?
A) Narrative skill
B) Engagement with socio-political issues
C) Imagination
D) Intellectual substance
  • 95. From whom did Fitzgerald borrow biographical incidents for 'The Rich Boy'?
A) John V. A. Weaver
B) Max Perkins
C) Ludlow Fowler
D) Ginevra King
  • 96. Which author wrote that Gatsby was the only flawless novel in American literature?
A) John O'Hara
B) Budd Schulberg
C) Charles Jackson
D) Edward Newhouse
  • 97. Which short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald was adapted into episodes of anthology television series?
A) "Winter Dreams"
B) "The Ice Palace"
C) "Absolution"
D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
  • 98. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1921 film?
A) "Winter Dreams"
B) "The Off-Shore Pirate"
C) "May Day"
D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
  • 99. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1920 film titled 'The Chorus Girl's Romance'?
A) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
B) "May Day"
C) "Winter Dreams"
D) "The Ice Palace"
  • 100. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1926 film?
A) "May Day"
B) "Winter Dreams"
C) "The Rich Boy"
D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
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