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