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