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