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