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