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'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night' are two of the five novels Fitzgerald produced in his short life (1896-1940). Some of his short stories are also gems, reflecting the lives of members of "The Lost Generation" to which he and his wife Zelda belonged.
12 quizzes and 135 trivia questions.
1.
  Order in The Great Gatsby    
Ordering Quiz
 10 Qns
This quiz contains ten events that took place in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby". Do your best to place them in the order they happened to the characters. Good luck, old sport!
Difficult, 10 Qns, PootyPootwell, Feb 24 24
Difficult
PootyPootwell gold member
Feb 24 24
141 plays
2.
  The Ultimate The Great Gatsby Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz goes in detail on 'The Great Gatsby'. Have fun!
Average, 15 Qns, Lanire, Sep 18 23
Average
Lanire
Sep 18 23
4504 plays
3.
  All About Jordan   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Most Fitzgerald quizzes are about "The Great Gatsby". For a change, I decided to make one about one of the book's supporting characters: Jordan Baker.
Average, 15 Qns, tjoebigham, Aug 18 09
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Average
tjoebigham
466 plays
4.
  Great Gatsby    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on the greatest American novel, "The Great Gatsby".
Average, 10 Qns, kmria, May 29 12
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Average
kmria
4692 plays
5.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Just a little quiz to test your knowledge of the book.
Average, 10 Qns, fawkes753, Jul 11 05
Average
fawkes753
2774 plays
6.
  Colors and "The Great Gatsby"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Fitzgerald used several colors through the novel "The Great Gatsby" as symbols.
Average, 10 Qns, Jillista, Mar 22 09
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Average
Jillista
1243 plays
7.
  Average The Great Gatsby Trivia    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is about the great book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby". This goes by chapter; each question pertains to that chapter. Quotes are included.
Average, 10 Qns, Disney101, Dec 13 11
Recommended for grades: 9,10,11
Average
Disney101
2002 plays
8.
  Questions on The Great Gatsby    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on a great book.
Easier, 10 Qns, Skippygirl, Aug 29 14
Easier
Skippygirl
5205 plays
9.
  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
One of Fitzgerald's early stories is this satirical allegory about wealth and its great price.
Average, 15 Qns, tjoebigham, Apr 17 05
Average
tjoebigham
361 plays
10.
  This and That about The Great Gatsby    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Arguably one of the best books in American literature, The Great Gatsby has been read either willingly or under duress, by a major portion of the population. What do you recall of the details of Nick, Daisy, Tom, Jay, and the gang?
Average, 10 Qns, lutefan, Jun 24 20
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lutefan
Jun 24 20
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trivia question Quick Question
Chapter 6: In this chapter we find out about a little of Gatsby's background. What was his legal name?

From Quiz "The Great Gatsby"




11.
  "Tender is the Night" Part 1    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I saw there were no quizzes on this book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, so I decided to make one. I'm using the Penguin 1955 edition. This quiz is about the first section of the book.
Average, 10 Qns, daisycat6, Nov 19 07
Average
daisycat6
328 plays
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  "Tender is the Night" Part 2    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Following on from Part 1 of my quiz on "Tender is the Night"; this quiz focuses on Book 2. I'm using the Penguin 1955 edition.
Average, 10 Qns, daisycat6, Sep 04 09
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daisycat6
228 plays
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Trivia Questions
1. When we first meet Jordan Baker in "Gatsby's" first chapter, what is she doing?

From Quiz All About Jordan

Answer: lying on a sofa with Daisy

Jordan Baker is an old friend of Daisy Buchanan, from their childhood in Louisville, Kentucky. Both Daisy (a cousin of narrator Nick Carraway) and Jordan are dressed in white. Jordan is holding her chin up "...as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall." Nick soon falls for Jordan. The chin-balancing gesture is a mannerism of Jordan's.

2. Gatsby often stares at the light at the end of Daisy's dock. What color is it?

From Quiz Colors and "The Great Gatsby"

Answer: green

Gatsby dreams of having a "green light" to continue his relationship with Daisy.

3. Which year does this book begin?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 2

Answer: 1917

Dick is "twenty-six years old".

4. Where is the beach that Rosemary meets the Divers and their friends?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 1

Answer: France

Located "about halfway between Marseilles and the Italian border".

5. Chapter 1: In the beginning, Nick describes a man using these words, "______, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." Who is this man Nick is talking about?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Jay Gatsby

Nick starts out the story reciting a quote that his father had always told him, "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." Throughout the story Nick seems to back down from criticizing Gatsby because of what his father told him.

6. Name the "small town on the Mississippi River" rich boy John T. Unger comes from.

From Quiz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Answer: Hades

Styx and Acheron are rivers in the underworld of Greek myth. Ultima Thule is the legendary end of the world of old Greece. Unger is about to unknowingly exchange one "Hades" for a worse one of mindless materialism and greed. His surname obviously points to hunger, the sort of materialistic hunger the Roaring 20's embraced and Fitzgerald criticized throughout the era.

7. What is the Caraway family business Nick leaves behind to go East?

From Quiz This and That about The Great Gatsby

Answer: Hardware

Nick's grandfather started the store.

8. Who is credited as the author of the poem that precedes the story?

From Quiz Great Gatsby

Answer: Thomas Parke D'Invilliers

It was actually written by Fitzgerald and sums up Gatsby's philosophy: "Then wear the gold hat if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high bouncing lover, I must have you!'"

9. Whom does Nick meet when he visits Daisy the first time?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Jordan Baker

When Nick first meets Jordan, he describes that her chin is raised a bit as if she were balancing an object on it.

10. Jay is in love with whom?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Daisy Buchanan

11. What is Jordan's first line of dialogue?

From Quiz All About Jordan

Answer: "Absolutely!"

In the first chapter, when Nick converses with Daisy's husband, the boorish and brutal Tom Buchanan, a mention of the bond company Nick works for comes up. "Never heard of them", Tom replies when Nick tells tom his company's name. (We don't learn the company's name, though) "You will", the annoyed Nick shoots back, "You will if you stay in the East." The provincial Tom rejoins "Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry. I'd be a...fool to live anywhere else." It's then that Jordan, silent up to then, says "Absolutely!", her first line of dialogue in the book. Its suddenness startles Nick. "Fiddle-Dee-Dee!" is the catchphrase of Scarlett O'Hara of "Gone With The Wind". The other answers are made-up.

12. Daisy is beautiful on the outside but many of her actions display her dishonesty and corruption. What two colors are used to portray these two parts of her?

From Quiz Colors and "The Great Gatsby"

Answer: white and yellow

Daisy seemed to be pure, but the center of her character was actually corrupt just like daisies have white petals and yellow centers.

13. What is the name of the doctor in charge of Nicole?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 2

Answer: Dr Dohmler

The patients call him Dr Gregory.

14. Who is writing a novel based on the idea of "Ulysses"?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 1

Answer: Albert McKisco

Albert McKisco is angry with his wife, Violet, after she tells Rosemary the idea, claiming that he doesn't want it "to get all around before the book's published."

15. Chapter 2: On the first page of this chapter, Nick describes a place that is between New York and West Egg. What is this "gray"-like place?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Valley of Ashes

This is the area where the Wilsons live and George has his car shop and gas station. It is overlooked by the mysterious eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, which happens to be a tall billboard.

16. What prep school outside Boston, Mass. does Unger go to and meet Percy Washington at?

From Quiz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Answer: St. Midas

Midas was the greedy Greek king who wished for the "Golden Touch" so as to increase his wealth, only to face starvation when he turned food into gold. Most publishers worried that Fitzgerald's satirical reference would be construed as blasphemous.

17. Nick lives in a suburb of New York City on a peninsula. What is the name of the village in which Nick lives?

From Quiz This and That about The Great Gatsby

Answer: West Egg

East Egg and West Egg are virtually identical peninsulas...geographically, that is.

18. Where did Gatsby and Daisy initially meet?

From Quiz Great Gatsby

Answer: Louisville

They met while he was enlisted in the army. He was later sent overseas and she eventually married Tom.

19. What flower does Daisy compare Nick to?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Rose

'You remind me of a rose, an absolute rose.' In his mind, Nick does not agree to the comparison at all.

20. Who lived next door to Gatsby?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Nick & Nick Carraway

21. What does Jordan tell Nick about Tom?

From Quiz All About Jordan

Answer: Tom has a mistress

When Tom is summoned for a "business call" on the phone, Jordan tells Nick Tom has a mistress. The mistress is, of course, Myrtle Wilson, who is cheating on her dim-bulb hubby George with Tom. Jordan says "You mean to say you don't know? I thought everybody knew...She (Myrtle) might have the decency not to phone him (Tom) at dinner-time." Here we get our first glimpse at Jordan's cynicism in her acceptance of the affair. (And of course Nick couldn't know about Tom and Myrtle!) In one of the novel's most famous scenes, an enraged Tom breaks Myrtle's nose when she mentions Daisy's name in an arguement at a New York party. Later, Tom dares denounce the platonic affair of Jay Gatsby and Daisy when he's been cheating on his wife!

22. Daisy and Jordan are first seen wearing this color.

From Quiz Colors and "The Great Gatsby"

Answer: white

Both women have external characteristics that make them seem to be good.

23. Which animal does Nicole compare Dick to?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 2

Answer: A white cat

Nicole thinks Dick "must be very wise".

24. What film has Rosemary recently starred in?

From Quiz "Tender is the Night" Part 1

Answer: Daddy's Girl

The theme of acting can be seen throughout the book, and some people say that "Daddy's Girl" is another theme.

25. Chapter 3: In this chapter Nick mentions the huge, colorful parties his neighbor has through the summer nights. Which day of every week did five crates of oranges and lemons arrive from a fruiterer in New York for these parties?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Friday

Every Monday the same oranges and lemons left his neighbor's house as "pulpless halves".

26. Tom's "girl" is Myrtle Wilson. Nick meets her and her sister on an outing with Tom in Chapter II. What is her sister's name?

From Quiz F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

Answer: Catherine

Nick describes Catherine as "a slender, worldly girl of about thirty with a solid sticky bob of red hair and a complexion powdered milky white." She tells Nick rumors about his neighbor, the title character. "Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from."

27. Just how big is the diamond of the title that Percy's family owns?

From Quiz The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Answer: it's an entire mountain in Montana

Of course no diamond on Earth can ever make up a whole mountain in real life! But in Fitzgerald's allegory it's one cubic mile of pure diamond that Percy's family has built a fancy chateau upon.

28. Meyer Wolfsheim engages Nick in a discussion of his unique cuff links. What are Wolfsheim's cuff links made of?

From Quiz This and That about The Great Gatsby

Answer: human teeth

Wolfsheim is the man who "fixed" the Chicago Black Sox World Series and is a friend of Gatsby.

29. Daisy says she always watching for this day and is always missing it. What day is it?

From Quiz Great Gatsby

Answer: The longest day of the year

One of the numerous instances in this book where people have only a tenuous grasp on time passing. It's an interesting subtext to the story.

30. Whose nose did Tom Buchanan break in the book?

From Quiz The Great Gatsby

Answer: Myrtle's nose

Tom breaks Mrs. Wilson's nose in the New York apartment where they meet because he thinks that she has no right to mention Daisy's name and they get in an argument over it.

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