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When was F.Scott Fitzgerald born?
September 24, 1896
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What is the rising action?
Gatsby’s lavish parties
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When did This Side of Paradise get published?
1920
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What genre is The Great Gatsby?
Modernist novel, Jazz Age novel
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Which character is young, from Minnesota and is educated at Yale and fighting in World War I?
Nick Carraway
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Where was F.Scott Fitzgerald raised?
St. Paul, Minnesota
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What is the climax?
Gatsby’s reunion with Daisy
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When did The Saturday Evening Post get published?
1937
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What was the publishers name?
Charles Scribner’s Sons
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Who is the protagonist of the novel?
Jay Gatsby
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What year did F.Scott Fitzgerald enroll in the army?
1917
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What is the falling action?
Daisy’s rejection of Gatsby
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When was The Great Gatsby published?
1925
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What time/place was The Great Gatsby written?
1923–1924
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Who is the woman Gatsby loves?
Daisy Buchanan
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How did F.Scott Fitzgerald pass away?
He died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four.
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What is the major conflict?
Gatsby has amassed a vast fortune in order to win the affections of the upper-class Daisy Buchanan
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When did he publish Tender Is the Night?
1934
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Who is the narrator in The Great Gatsby?
Nick Carraway
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Which one of Daisy's friends which Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel?
Jordan Baker
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Who did F.Scott Fitzgerald fall in love with?
Zelda Sayre
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Who is the protagonist?
Gatsby or Nick
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What book only got half finished before F.Scott Fitzgerald's passing?
The Love of the Last Tycoon
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What is the setting time/place?
Summer 1922 and Long Island and New York City
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Who is the eccentric, bespectacled drunk whom Nick meets at the first party he attends at Gatsby’s mansion?
Owl Eyes
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