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Pop Quiz: All About F. Scott Fitzgerald

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1.   Fitzgerald was born in:
    1840
    1896
    1925
    1933

2.   The Scribner’s editor who helped Fitzgerald revise The Great Gatsby was:
    Maxwell House
    Maxwell Perkins
    Maxwell Smart
    Elsa Maxwell

3.   Fitzgerald dropped out of:
    Villanova University
    University of Minnesota
    Princeton University
    Yale University

4.   The only Hollywood screenplay Fitzgerald completed and received screen credit for was:
    The Wizard of Oz
    Gone With the Wind
    Three Comrades
    The Three Amigos

5.   The magazine in which Fitzgerald published most of his short stories during the 1920s was:
    Playboy
    The Atlantic
    The Saturday Evening Post
    The New York Times

6.   Fitzgerald’s last—and unfinished—novel was:
    The Sound and the Fury
    The Old Man and the Sea
    The Last Tycoon
    This Side of Paradise

7.   Which writer memorialized Fitzgerald in A Moveable Feast?
    Sinclair Lewis
    Ernest Hemingway
    Dorothy Parker
    Ring Lardner

8.   Fitzgerald died in 1940 from a/an:
    Car crash
    Cirrhosis of the liver
    War wound
    Heart attack

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