Context

Question 1

What prestigious theatrical club was Fitzgerald a member of in college?

Answer 1

The Triangle Club

Question 2

What was a major struggle that Fitzgerald fought his entire life?

Answer 2

Alcoholism

Question 3

What is the term for the girl that all the boys want, but none can obtain?

Answer 3

The golden girl

Question 4

Who was Ginevra King?

Answer 4

She was the golden girl that Fitzgerald pursued at Princeton. Her father told Fitzgerald that “poor boys don’t marry rich girls”

Inspiration for Daisy

Question 5

Who did F Scott Fitzgerald end up marrying?

Answer 5

Zelda Sayre

Question 6

Why did Zelda break off their first engagement?

Answer 6

She said that he was not making enough money. Did not believe in him.

Question 7

Zelda became bored while Fitzgerald worked on the great Gatsby. What did she do to deal with her boredom?

Answer 7

She cheated on Fitzgerald with a French aviator, Edouard Jozan

Question 8

When Fitzgerald died, was his funeral heavily attended?

Answer 8

No. Just like Gatsby’s.

Question 9

How did Zelda die in 1948?

Answer 9

A fire burned down the building that she was in, Highland Hospital

Question 10

What quote is printed onto F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave stone?

Answer 10

“So we beat on, boats against current. Borne back ceaselessly into the past”

Question 11

Where is Fitzgerald buried?

Answer 11

Rockville, Maryland

Question 12

How did f scott fitzgerald die?

Answer 12

Fitzgerald died of a heart attack after suffering with alcoholism.

Question 13

Fitzgerald and war

Answer 13

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton and took a commission as a second lieutenant in the army. Worried he might die in battle, he began frantically writing in his off-hours in the hopes of leaving behind a literary legacy.

Just like Gatsby?

Question 14

When and where was Fitzgerald born? And to who?

Answer 14

Born in 1898 in Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family

Question 15

When did he marry Zelda?

Answer 15

1920

Question 16

Celebrity status

Answer 16

Fitzgerald fell into a wild, reckless lifestyle of parties and decadence due to his celebrity status, while trying to please Zelda by writing to earn money.

Question 17

What did Fitzgerald refer the 1920’s as?

Answer 17

‘The Jazz Age’

Question 18

Popularity of Gatsby

Answer 18

did not become popular until after Fitzgerald’s death

Question 19

How did Gatsby meet Zelda?

Answer 19

fitzgerald met zelda when he was stationed near her home

Like how gatsby met Daisy?

Question 20

Fitzgerald’s attempt at getting Zelda back (impressing her)

Answer 20

wrote ‘This side of paradise’ and wanted it to get published quickly as he thought it would help him win zelda back

Question 21

What quote did Zelda say when giving birth?

Answer 21

“i hope it’s a beautiful fool”

SOUNDS LIKE DAISY

Question 22

Fitzgerald’s kid

Answer 22

Frances Scott Fitzgerald

Question 23

How long did Fitzgerald live in NYC?

Answer 23

1922 to 1924

2 YEARS

Question 24

How does Fitzgerald’s public life relate to Gatsby?

Answer 24

Fitzgerald hosted a lot of parties in Long Island

Question 25

Fitzgerald and Gatsby - past

Answer 25

same with fitzgerald - wants to return to their early love. He wants to impress Zelda to get her back

Question 26

Define 'flappers'

Answer 26

carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Harvard psychologist argued they had the 'lowest degree of intelligence'

Question 27

green light relating to Fitzgerald

Answer 27

Fitzgerald trying to attain a successful career and write the american novel

Question 28

magazine 'town tattlers' in Myrtles apartment (link to Fitzgerald)

Answer 28

links to zeldas and fitzgerald's lives being in the media

Question 29

Representation of Jordan Baker / Gatsby (in Fitzgerald's own life)

Answer 29

Fitzgerald met a woman named Sheila (upper class) but he found out she had lied to him and her accent was fake

Question 30

Where did Fitzgerald begin writing the novel?

Answer 30

Paris

Question 31

Who is Meyer Wolfsheim based on?

Answer 31

Arnold Rothstein, nicknamed "the Brain", was an American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York.

Question 32

What novel made Fitzgerald a star?

Answer 32

This Side of Paradise, in 1920

Question 33

Fitzgerald's wife mental health

Answer 33

In 1930, Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent her remaining years in and out of various mental health clinics.

Question 34

When did Zelda and Fitzgerald get married? Where?

Answer 34

April 3, 1920, St. Patrick's Cathedral

Question 35

Zelda was given the title "__________________"

Answer 35

Queen of the Flappers

Question 36

Fitzgerald wrote for magazines such as...

Answer 36

Saturday Evening Post

Question 37

When was The Great Gatsby published?

Answer 37

Spring 1925

Question 38

Fitzgerald's works were rediscovered in this decade.

Answer 38

1950s

Question 39

Fitzgerald's father's failure that failed to inspire him. Like Gatsby's dad in not paying attention to him?

Answer 39

Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture

Question 40

How much money was Fitzgerald making when Zelda doubted him?

Answer 40

$35 a week

Question 41

How did people respond (like/dislike) Fitzgerald's first published novel, This Side of Paradise?

Answer 41

It sold out after the first day.

Question 42

What is the title of Fitzgerald's second published novel? What is the novel about?

Answer 42

It is titled The Beautiful and Damned. It is about a happy couple who drank, fought, and became self destructive RELATES TO HIM AND ZELDA

Question 43

What is tragic about Fitzgerald's death?

Answer 43

He died while he was in the middle of writing another novel, he died believing himself a failure. How Gatsby will have felt if he didn't get Daisy!

Question 44

N/A

Answer 44

N/A

Question 45

Speakeasy

Answer 45

An illegal bar during prohibition, Gatsby and Nick meet Wolfsheim at a speakeasy in Chapter

Question 46

most people believed he was a what

Answer 46

an alcoholic who struggled with depression

Question 47

how did he redeem himself

Answer 47

through his writing