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