Great Gatsby Content

Question 1

What sparked the Modern era during the early Twentieth Century?

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution

Question 2

What did Fitzgerald want to be?

Answer 2

rich & famous writer

Question 3

When & Where was Fitzgerald born?

Answer 3

Sept 22, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Question 4

Fitzgerald parents background?

Answer 4

Father failed buisnessman.
Mother from a wealthy family.

Question 5

Fitzgerald was a … boy in a rich school

Answer 5

poor

Question 6

In 1913 Fitzgerald was accepted at … in New Jersey

Answer 6

Princeton

Question 7

What did Fitzgerald fail to make at Princeton?

Answer 7

the football team

Question 8

What 2 things did Fitzgerald do at Princeton?

Answer 8

• Literary Magazine
• The Triangle Club

Question 9

What problem did Fitzgerald have?

Answer 9

drinking

Question 10

Fitzgerald dates Ginerva King and what did his father tell him about that?

Answer 10

poor boys don’t marry rich girls

Question 11

What happened in 1917?

Answer 11

Fitzgerald flunked out of school and went to bootcamp

Question 12

Who did Fitzgerald meet while waiting to be sent overseas?

Answer 12

Zelda Sayre

Question 13

What did Zelda like about Fitzgerald?

Answer 13

his uniform

Question 14

What date did the war end?

Answer 14

Nov 11, 1918

Question 15

Why did Zelda break her engagement to Fitzgerald?

Answer 15

He couldn’t support the life she wanted

Question 16

What book debuted and sold out that Fitzgerald write to make money and get Zelda back?

Answer 16

This Side of Paradise

Question 17

What date did Fitzgerald and Zelda get married in Saint Patricks Cathedral NYC?

Answer 17

April 3, 1920

Question 18

What term was coined by Fitzgerald in the 1920’s?

Answer 18

The Jazz Age

Question 19

What’s Fitzgerald and Zelda’s daughters name?

Answer 19

Francis Scott (Scottie)

Question 20

What magazines did Fitzgerald write short stories for?

Answer 20

Esquive & Saturday Evening Post

Question 21

a book about a coupe who self destruct after too much drinking and partying

Answer 21

The Beautiful & the Damned

Question 22

In the spring of 1924 what did Fitzgerald start writing?

Answer 22

Gatsby

Question 23

Drinking buddy of Fitzgerald who was jealous of Fitzgerald’s writing style

Answer 23

Ernest Hemingway

Question 24

When did the stock market crash that ended the Jazz Age?

Answer 24

Oct 29,1929

Question 25

April of 1934 Fitzgerald released what book?

Answer 25

Tender is the Night

Question 26

Fitzgerald was drinking how many bottles of beer a day?

Answer 26

30

Question 27

In the summer of 1937 who hired Fitzgerald as a screen writer?

Answer 27

Metro Golden

Question 28

What two screens did Fitzgerald work on?

Answer 28

• Three Commrades
• Gone with the Wind

Question 29

What was Fitzgeralds final novel in 1939?

Answer 29

The Last Tycoon

Question 30

At the age of 44 Fitzgerald died by?

Answer 30

heart attack

Question 31

How many people attended Fitzgeralds funeral?

Answer 31

very few

Question 32

How did Zelda die?

Answer 32

Midnight fire at the mental hospital

Question 33

Where are Zelda and Fitzgerald buried?

Answer 33

Rockfield, Maryland

Question 34

Inspired Fitzgerald for the character of Daisy Buchanan?

Answer 34

Ginerva King

Question 35

Wrote the star spangled banner?

Answer 35

Francis Scott Key

Question 36

Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald named after?

Answer 36

Francis Scott Key

Question 37

represents poverty and hopelessness

Answer 37

The Valley of Ashes

Question 38

represents hope of the American Dream

Answer 38

The Green Light at the end of Daisy’s Dock

Question 39

represents real and not hollow

Answer 39

The books in Gatsby’s library

Question 40

represents materialistic wealth

Answer 40

The shirts in Gatsby’s closet

Question 41

represents freedom

Answer 41

automobiles

Question 42

represents Gatsby getting Daisy and losing her

Answer 42

Overwound Mantle Clock

Question 43

represents time stopping

Answer 43

Defunct Mantle Clock

Question 44

represents fakeness, close to pure but not quite

Answer 44

The color yellow

Question 45

What’s Nick’s secret pride?

Answer 45

appears to be honest and straightforward but isn’t

Question 46

Why does Gatsby befriend Nick?

Answer 46

to go after Daisy

Question 47

Irony about Tom and Myrtles Relationship?

Answer 47

Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle but he doesn’t treat her well

Question 48

Dr TJ Eckelberg Symbol

Answer 48

Eyes of God looking down on the behavior

Question 49

Reasons for Gatsby’s parties?

Answer 49

to get Daisy’s attention

Question 50

Gatsby’s relationship with Wolfsheim

Answer 50

buisnessman partner and friend

Question 51

Daisy’s advice to her daughter

Answer 51

“beautiful little fool” because a woman’s value is limited to her attractiveness

Question 52

Truth about Gatsby attending Oxford

Answer 52

a special program for officers, he spent 5 months there

Question 53

Irony of the amount of people attending Gatsby’s funeral

Answer 53

no one really attended Fitzgerald’s funeral, and everyone attended gastby’s parties but not his funeral

Question 54

Why does Nick go back to the midwest

Answer 54

New York is too harsh, fast, and cruel

Question 55

What date was the great gatbsy released?

Answer 55

Apr 10, 1925