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