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