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