Contexts

Question 1

Ennui

Answer 1

A feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, boredom

Question 2

Lost Generation

Answer 2

Group of expatriate American writers who worked in Europe between WW1 and the Great Depression, loss of faith in traditional values, hedonistic, rebellious, disillusioned

Question 3

Disillusioned

Answer 3

Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed

Question 4

Roary Twenties

Answer 4

A period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge

Question 5

Hedonism

Answer 5

The pursuit of pleasure, and sensual self-indulgence

Question 6

Consumerism

Answer 6

The buying of goods and services beyond those necessary

Question 7

Flappers

Answer 7

Young women in the 1920s known for their energetic freedom, and embracing lifestyles that were deemed outrageous

Question 8

Prohibition

Answer 8

18th amendment, 1920-1933 banned production and sale of alcohol

Question 9

Moral atrophy

Answer 9

The deterioration of the ability to make ethical decisions and act in an ethical way

Question 10

Puritan work ethic

Answer 10

The view that hard work is a signifier of one’s salvation and that diligence in ones work is pleasing to god

Question 11

Fitzgerald to the novel

Answer 11

Zelda delayed their wedding until Fitzgerald was successful as he was below her social class

Question 12

Valley of Ashes inspiration

Answer 12

T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ (1922)