Test your knowledge of F Scott Fitzgerald - quiz | Culture

1.Which work of Fitzgerald's did best in his lifetime?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
Tales of the Jazz Age
2.Which Fitzgerald quote is on his gravestone?
"Forgotten is forgiven."
"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
"The victor belongs to the spoils."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
3.Who reassured Fitzgerald that he was 'perfectly fine' when Zelda told him that 'the way [he] was built [he] could never make any woman happy'?
Isadora Duncan
Pablo Picasso
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
4.Which one of Fitzgerald's characters grew up in Hades and had "danced all the latest dances from New York before he put on long trousers"?
Nick Carraway
Dick Diver
Benjamin Button
John T. Unger
5.Which successful short story of Fitzgerald's was based on letters to his younger sister instructing her on how to appear attractive to men?
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Rich Boy
The Bridal Party
Babylon Revisited
6.When did Fitzgerald say he first started to become a real writer?
Birth
At 13 when he published his first story (a detective story)
When he met Zelda
When he started drinking
7.What finally convinced Zelda to marry him?
A diamond necklace
The publication of This Side of Paradise
Alcohol
Zelda's dad
8.No literary theorists have proposed that Jay Gatsby may have been...
Black
Jewish
Gay
A woman
9.Which journalist did Fitzgerald have an affair with?
Martha Gellhorn
Dorothy Thompson
Sheilah Graham
Margaret Bourke-White
10.Which Zelda-esque character utters this manic line? "But I was very busy being mad then, so I didn’t care what he said, when I am very busy being mad I don’t usually care what they say, not if I were a million girls"
Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise
Gloria Patch in The Beautiful and the Damned
Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby
Nicole Diver in Tender Is The Night

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