F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
Questions on the text, each answered in the book’s own words, with the minute you hear it.
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Answer His mother
“Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.”
Answer Bar Harbor
“in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara.”
Answer Whiskey and soda
“She learned in England to prefer whiskey and soda to wine”
Answer Ninety-six
“Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day in ninety-six.”
Answer Coronado
“from Coronado, where his mother became so bored that she had a nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel”
Answer A mild, almost epidemic consumption
“down to Mexico City, where she took a mild, almost epidemic consumption.”
Answer His mother's apricot cordial
“when left alone in the hotel at Hot Springs, he sampled his mother's apricot cordial, and as the taste pleased him, he became quite tipsy.”
Answer Four
“When Amory had the whooping-cough four disgusted specialists glared at each other hunched around his bed”
Answer Fourteen
“when he took scarlet fever the number of attendants, including physicians and nurses, totalled fourteen.”
Answer Priests
“Still, next to doctors, priests were her favorite sport.”
Answer Asheville
“there had been a pagan, Swinburnian young man in Asheville, for whose passionate kisses and unsentimental conversations she had taken a decided penchant”
Answer Monsignor Darcy
“the young pagan from Asheville had gone through a spiritual crisis, joined the Catholic Church, and was now—Monsignor Darcy.”
Answer His appendix burst
“four hours out from land, Italy bound, with Beatrice, his appendix burst, probably from too many meals in bed”
Answer Minneapolis
“Amory was left in Minneapolis, destined to spend the ensuing two years with his aunt and uncle.”
Answer Thursday, December the seventeenth
“I am going to have a bobbing party," it said, "on Thursday, December the seventeenth, at five o'clock”
Answer French class
“He had shown off one day in French class (he was in senior French class) to the utter confusion of Mr. Reardon”
Answer The Colonial Wars
“though it only got as far as the Colonial Wars, had been pronounced by his mother completely enchanting.”
Answer Collar and Daniel's "First-Year Latin"
“after some consideration and a preliminary draft in the back of Collar and Daniel's "First-Year Latin," composed an answer”
Answer Three
“one of the three in Minneapolis) swung open the door. Amory stepped inside and divested himself of cap and coat.”
Answer A sorta gray horse
“Oh, no just a horse—a sorta gray horse.”
Answer The burlesque show
“I went to the burlesque show last week.”
Answer Froggy Parker
“You got a crush on Froggy Parker. I guess everybody knows that.”
Answer Richard
“Turn down this side street, Richard, and drive straight to the Minnehaha Club!”
Answer Twenty-sixth
“I like you the first twenty-five," she confessed, her voice trembling, "and Froggy Parker twenty-sixth.”
Answer Her lorgnette
“Myra's mother appeared on the threshold, fumbling with her lorgnette.”
This Side of Paradise, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. Public domain in the United States.