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