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