1. Which work of Fitzgerald's did best in his lifetime?

   1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

   2. The Great Gatsby

   3. This Side of Paradise

   4. Tales of the Jazz Age

2. Which Fitzgerald quote is on his gravestone?

   1. "Forgotten is forgiven."

   2. "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."

   3. "The victor belongs to the spoils."

   4. "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'?

   1. Isadora Duncan

   2. Pablo Picasso

   3. Ernest Hemingway

   4. 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"?

   1. Nick Carraway

   2. Dick Diver

   3. Benjamin Button

   4. 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?

   1. Bernice Bobs Her Hair

   2. The Rich Boy

   3. The Bridal Party

   4. Babylon Revisited

6. When did Fitzgerald say he first started to become a real writer?

   1. Birth

   2. At 13 when he published his first story (a detective story)

   3. When he met Zelda

   4. When he started drinking

7. What finally convinced Zelda to marry him?

   1. A diamond necklace

   2. The publication of This Side of Paradise

   3. Alcohol

   4. Zelda's dad

8. No literary theorists have proposed that Jay Gatsby may have been...

   1. Black

   2. Jewish

   3. Gay

   4. A woman

9. Which journalist did Fitzgerald have an affair with?

   1. Martha Gellhorn

   2. Dorothy Thompson

   3. Sheilah Graham

   4. 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"

    1. Rosalind Connage in This Side of Paradise

    2. Gloria Patch in The Beautiful and the Damned

    3. Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby

    4. Nicole Diver in Tender Is The Night

Solutions

1:C, 2:D, 3:C, 4:D, 5:A, 6:A, 7:B, 8:D, 9:C, 10:D

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Zelda is not pleased. Hate to break it to you, but having seen Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby won't get you through a conversation about the Fitzgeralds

2. 5 and above.

   Nicely done, old sport. You could probably blend into the Jazz Age if you kept your head down

3. 8 and above.

   Great Scott! You know your Fitz, old sport! Just don't have too much bubbly celebrating his birthday today...