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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quiz
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  • 1. When was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) 1920
B) 1900
C) 1896
D) 1888
  • 2. What novel is F. Scott Fitzgerald best known for?
A) 1984
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) To Kill a Mockingbird
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 3. Which one of Fitzgerald's novels was published posthumously?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) The Last Tycoon
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 4. Where was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?
A) New York City, New York
B) Los Angeles, California
C) St. Paul, Minnesota
D) Chicago, Illinois
  • 5. What is the title of Fitzgerald's first novel?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) This Side of Paradise
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 6. Which writer was a close friend of Fitzgerald and influenced his writing?
A) William Faulkner
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Edith Wharton
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 7. What is the last completed novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) Tender Is the Night
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 8. What is the protagonist's name in 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Nick Carraway
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 9. 'Tales of the Jazz Age' is a collection of?
A) Novel
B) Essays
C) Short Stories
D) Poetry
  • 10. Fitzgerald's real first name is?
A) Fabian
B) Frederick
C) Felix
D) Francis
  • 11. Which university did F. Scott Fitzgerald briefly attend but did not graduate from?
A) Yale University
B) Princeton University
C) Harvard University
D) Stanford University
  • 12. In which war did Fitzgerald serve in the military?
A) Korean War
B) Vietnam War
C) World War I
D) Civil War
  • 13. How many novels did F. Scott Fitzgerald publish during his lifetime?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Six
D) Four
  • 14. Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife that struggled with mental health issues?
A) Edith Wharton
B) Zelda Sayre
C) Ginevra King
D) Sheilah Graham
  • 15. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's occupation in Hollywood?
A) Director
B) Actor
C) Producer
D) Screenwriter
  • 16. Who edited and published 'The Last Tycoon' after Fitzgerald's death?
A) Zelda Sayre
B) Sheilah Graham
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Edmund Wilson
  • 17. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's financial situation during the Great Depression?
A) Struggled financially
B) Prospered
C) Remained stable
D) Became wealthy
  • 18. What illness did Zelda Sayre suffer from?
A) Bipolar disorder
B) Schizophrenia
C) Depression
D) Alzheimer's disease
  • 19. Which magazine was NOT mentioned as one F. Fitzgerald wrote for?
A) Esquire
B) The Saturday Evening Post
C) The New Yorker
D) Collier's Weekly
  • 20. What was the cause of F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) Pneumonia
B) Heart attack
C) Car accident
D) Alcoholism
  • 21. What was Fitzgerald's mother's name?
A) Sarah Fitzgerald
B) Anne Fitzgerald
C) Mary 'Molly' McQuillan Fitzgerald
D) Elizabeth Fitzgerald
  • 22. Which business did Edward Fitzgerald start after the Civil War?
A) A bank
B) A textile mill
C) A grocery store
D) A wicker-furniture manufacturing business
  • 23. Where was Mary Surratt, related to Fitzgerald's father, executed?
A) For theft
B) During the Civil War
C) For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
D) For espionage during World War I
  • 24. Which school did Fitzgerald attend in Buffalo from 1905 to 1908?
A) Buffalo High School
B) Nardin Academy
C) Holy Angels Convent
D) Procter & Gamble School
  • 25. What happened to Fitzgerald's father in March 1908?
A) He started a new business
B) He was fired from Procter & Gamble
C) He retired
D) He won the lottery
  • 26. What school did Fitzgerald attend in Saint Paul after returning there?
A) Procter & Gamble Academy
B) St. Paul Academy
C) Buffalo High School
D) Newman School
  • 27. Where was the first piece of Fitzgerald's fiction published?
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
  • 28. Which Catholic prep school did Fitzgerald attend in New Jersey?
A) Nardin Academy
B) Holy Angels Convent
C) The Newman School in Hackensack
D) St. Paul Academy
  • 29. Who recognized Fitzgerald's literary potential at the Newman School?
A) Fitzgerald's mother
B) Father Sigourney Fay
C) A school teacher
D) His father, Edward Fitzgerald
  • 30. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald graduate from Newman?
A) 1912
B) 1915
C) 1913
D) 1914
  • 31. Who helped F. Scott Fitzgerald find a home in Delaware?
A) John Peale Bishop
B) John Biggs Jr.
C) Edmund Wilson
D) Max Perkins
  • 32. Which of the following characters was inspired by Ginevra King in 'This Side of Paradise'?
A) Isabelle Borgé
B) Jordan Baker
C) Amory Blaine
D) Daisy Buchanan
  • 33. Which military rank did F. Scott Fitzgerald achieve in the United States Army?
A) Captain
B) Sergeant
C) Major
D) Second lieutenant
  • 34. Who was the commanding officer of the training camp where Fitzgerald was stationed?
A) Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Colonel George Patton
C) Major Richard Nixon
D) General Douglas MacArthur
  • 35. What was the title of the manuscript F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote before World War I?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) Tender Is the Night
C) The Romantic Egotist
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 36. Which publisher rejected 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Harper & Brothers
B) Random House
C) Penguin Books
D) Scribner's
  • 37. Who praised Fitzgerald's writing after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Edmund Wilson
C) John Peale Bishop
D) Max Perkins
  • 38. What did Max Perkins encourage Fitzgerald to do after rejecting 'The Romantic Egotist'?
A) Resubmit it after further revisions
B) Abandon the manuscript
C) Submit it to another publisher immediately
D) Give up writing
  • 39. Where was Fitzgerald garrisoned with the 45th and 67th Infantry Regiments?
A) Camp Mills, Long Island
B) Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama
C) New York City
D) Chicago
  • 40. What did Fitzgerald continue writing to after meeting Zelda?
A) An editor for a newspaper
B) Zelda
C) His mother
D) Ginevra
  • 41. What did the Fitzgeralds accuse each other of as their quarrels worsened?
A) Poor parenting
B) Marital infidelities
C) Financial mismanagement
D) Lack of ambition
  • 42. Who was Zelda infatuated with during their time on the French Riviera?
A) Édouard Jozan
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Maxwell Perkins
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 43. What was Fitzgerald's job in New York City?
A) Working as a journalist
B) Serving as an editor for a magazine
C) Writing advertising copy
D) Teaching at a university
  • 44. Which literary style did 'The Beautiful and Damned' emulate?
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
  • 45. What contributed to The Great Gatsby's later acclaim and popularity?
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
  • 46. Which story did Fitzgerald describe as his first attempt at the Gatsby idea?
A) The Vegetable
B) Winter Dreams
C) Babylon Revisited
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 47. How many copies did 'This Side of Paradise' sell in its first year?
A) 100,000 copies
B) 5,000 copies
C) Approximately 40,000 copies
D) 10,000 copies
  • 48. What year was 'Tales of the Jazz Age' released?
A) 1924
B) 1921
C) 1923
D) 1922
  • 49. How many short stories did F. Scott Fitzgerald write?
A) 150
B) 200
C) 164
D) 175
  • 50. What did Fitzgerald send Zelda in March 1919?
A) His mother's ring
B) A letter of apology
C) A bouquet of flowers
D) A book he wrote
  • 51. What phrase did Fitzgerald's neighbor Max Gerlach frequently use?
A) "Top of the morning"
B) "The bee's knees"
C) "Gentlemen prefer blondes"
D) "Old sport"
  • 52. What did Edmund Wilson believe Fitzgerald lacked in his early works?
A) Intellectual substance
B) Engagement with socio-political issues
C) Imagination
D) Narrative skill
  • 53. Who first encountered the Fitzgeralds riding on the roof of a taxi?
A) Actor Lew Fields
B) Writer Dorothy Parker
C) Cartoonist Rube Goldberg
D) Comedian Ed Wynn
  • 54. Who criticized Fitzgerald's short stories in 1933?
A) Journalist Matthew Josephson
B) Budd Schulberg
C) H. L. Mencken
D) Harold Ober
  • 55. What type of film was F. Scott Fitzgerald invited to write in Hollywood?
A) A war documentary
B) A silent drama
C) A flapper comedy
D) A romantic musical
  • 56. What was the societal transition that defined the lives of the Jazz Age generation according to Fitzgerald?
A) Post-war reconstruction
B) Reversion to traditional values
C) Transition towards modernity
D) Industrial revolution
  • 57. In which year did the Fitzgeralds return to America after their time in Europe?
A) 1924
B) 1926
C) 1930
D) 1928
  • 58. What did Fitzgerald do while revising his novel?
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
  • 59. What is a key characteristic of Jay Gatsby that reflects Fitzgerald's own sense of otherness?
A) Old Stock American ancestry
B) Clear ethno-religious identity
C) Obscure origins
D) Established class status
  • 60. Who was Fitzgerald's final companion before his death?
A) Zelda Fitzgerald
B) Ginevra King
C) Sheilah Graham
D) Harold Ober
  • 61. Which of these literary figures praised The Great Gatsby upon its release?
A) Willa Cather
B) James Joyce
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 62. How many rejection letters did Fitzgerald receive for his early writings?
A) 200 rejection letters
B) 50 rejection letters
C) 100 rejection letters
D) Over 122 rejection letters
  • 63. Who successfully petitioned to move Fitzgerald and Zelda's remains to the family plot?
A) Scottie
B) Edmund Wilson
C) Harold Ober
D) Maxwell Perkins
  • 64. When was 'This Side of Paradise' first published?
A) March 26, 1920
B) January 15, 1919
C) December 25, 1918
D) July 4, 1921
  • 65. Where did Zelda undergo treatment for her mental illness in Switzerland?
A) A private sanatorium
B) A general hospital
C) A university hospital
D) A clinic
  • 66. Which critic hailed 'This Side of Paradise' as the best American novel of the year?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Gertrude Stein
D) H. L. Mencken
  • 67. What profession did Max Gerlach have after World War I?
A) A banker
B) A gentleman bootlegger
C) A professor
D) An actor
  • 68. Which magazine did Fitzgerald often write stories for?
A) Vogue
B) The Saturday Evening Post
C) Time Magazine
D) Reader's Digest
  • 69. What did Fitzgerald mock himself as through the character of Pat Hobby?
A) A successful director.
B) A Hollywood hack.
C) An influential writer.
D) A talented actor.
  • 70. How did Hemingway describe the changes Fitzgerald made to his stories for magazines?
A) Whoring
B) Simplifying
C) Enhancing
D) Elaborating
  • 71. What was the primary impetus for Fitzgerald writing short stories?
A) Personal satisfaction
B) Artistic expression
C) Critical acclaim
D) Money
  • 72. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1921 film?
A) "May Day"
B) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
C) "Winter Dreams"
D) "The Off-Shore Pirate"
  • 73. Where did the Fitzgeralds spend time after wintering in Italy?
A) France
B) Spain
C) England
D) Germany
  • 74. Where did Fitzgerald and his family sojourn when he faced a marital crisis?
A) French Riviera
B) Rome
C) London
D) Paris
  • 75. Where was 'The Beautiful and Damned' first serialized?
A) Vanity Fair
B) Scribner's
C) The New Yorker
D) Metropolitan Magazine
  • 76. What societal status did F. Scott Fitzgerald feel he lacked during his upbringing?
A) Wealth
B) Education
C) Popularity
D) Cultural knowledge
  • 77. What did the Fitzgeralds consume at every outing during the Jazz Age?
A) Tea and biscuits
B) Wine and cheese
C) Coffee and pastries
D) Gin-and-fruit concoctions
  • 78. Which literary work is the initial title 'Trimalchio' an allusion to?
A) The Odyssey
B) Satyricon
C) The Aeneid
D) Metamorphoses
  • 79. What was the title of Zelda Fitzgerald's fictionalized version of their experiences published in 1932?
A) "Tender Is the Night"
B) Save Me the Waltz
C) The Beautiful and Damned
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 80. Which short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald was adapted into episodes of anthology television series?
A) "Absolution"
B) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
C) "The Ice Palace"
D) "Winter Dreams"
  • 81. How much did Fitzgerald earn for selling his first story?
A) $50
B) $10
C) $100
D) $30
  • 82. From whom did Fitzgerald borrow biographical incidents for 'The Rich Boy'?
A) Max Perkins
B) Ginevra King
C) Ludlow Fowler
D) John V. A. Weaver
  • 83. Where did F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda relocate after being asked to leave the Biltmore Hotel?
A) The Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street
B) The Plaza Hotel
C) The Ritz-Carlton
D) The Waldorf Astoria
  • 84. What was the name of the estate in Maryland where Fitzgerald rented a place to work on his novel?
A) "La Paix"
B) "Ellerslie"
C) "Towson Manor"
D) "Pickfair"
  • 85. What did Fitzgerald liken the Jazz Age to in terms of societal behavior?
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
  • 86. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1920 film titled 'The Chorus Girl's Romance'?
A) "Winter Dreams"
B) "May Day"
C) "The Ice Palace"
D) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
  • 87. How much were Fitzgerald's book royalties by 1936?
A) $80
B) $200
C) $500
D) $1000
  • 88. When was Fitzgerald discharged from the army?
A) December 1918
B) September 1918
C) November 1918
D) February 14, 1919
  • 89. In which year did F. Scott Fitzgerald move abroad to Europe?
A) 1925
B) 1924
C) 1923
D) 1926
  • 90. Which novel did Gertrude Cather influence with its portrayal of a wealthy socialite?
A) The Beautiful and Damned
B) This Side of Paradise
C) A Lost Lady
D) Tender Is the Night
  • 91. What did Fitzgerald and Zelda engage in during his Montgomery sojourn?
A) Volunteering at a local hospital
B) Sexual recklessness
C) Competing in sports
D) Writing poetry together
  • 92. What health issue caused F. Scott Fitzgerald's death?
A) pulmonary embolism
B) lung cancer
C) occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis
D) stroke
  • 93. In which decade did F. Scott Fitzgerald become a cult figure in American culture?
A) By the 1960s
B) By the 1970s
C) By the 1950s
D) By the 1940s
  • 94. What was the initial title of The Great Gatsby?
A) Gatsby's Rise
B) Trimalchio
C) The Long Island Story
D) The Parvenu's Dream
  • 95. Which studio did John W. Considine Jr. represent when he invited Fitzgerald to Hollywood?
A) MGM Studios
B) United Artists
C) Warner Bros.
D) Paramount Pictures
  • 96. What was the name of the short story F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about Lois Moran?
A) "Save Me the Waltz"
B) "Tender Is the Night"
C) "The Great Gatsby"
D) "Magnetism"
  • 97. What was the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) This Side of Paradise
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 98. Which author wrote that Gatsby was the only flawless novel in American literature?
A) Charles Jackson
B) Edward Newhouse
C) Budd Schulberg
D) John O'Hara
  • 99. Which F. Scott Fitzgerald short story was adapted into a 1926 film?
A) "Winter Dreams"
B) "The Rich Boy"
C) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
D) "May Day"
  • 100. Who observed that Fitzgerald showed a constantly growing mastery as an American novelist?
A) Edith Wharton
B) Burke Van Allen
C) T. S. Eliot
D) John V. A. Weaver
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