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