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 Count Del Monte
“His dog, Count Del Monte, ate the red cap, so his uncle gave him a gray one that pulled down over his face.”
Answer "Arsene Lupin"
“Amory and Frog Parker considered that the greatest line in literature occurred in Act III of “Arsene Lupin.”
Answer A great criminal
“If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
Answer Three-fingered Brown
“whether Three-fingered Brown was really a better pitcher than Christie Mathewson.”
Answer Hennepin and Nicollet
“dreaming along Hennepin and Nicollet Avenues, through the gay crowd.”
Answer The youngest general in the world
“the one about the Japanese invasion, when he was rewarded by being made the youngest general in the world.”
Answer A sort of aristocratic egotism
“he had formulated his first philosophy, a code to live by, which, as near as it can be named, was a sort of aristocratic egotism.”
Answer Two miles an hour
“she slipped cautiously into a speed of two miles an hour, beseeching Amory to act as sentinel”
Answer Brooks'
“You must go to Brooks’ and get some really nice suits.”
Answer Sixty
“The sixty acres of the estate were dotted with old and new summer houses and many fountains and white benches”
Answer Bronze rivers lapping marble shores
“I saw bronze rivers lapping marble shores, and great birds that soared through the air, parti-colored birds with iridescent plumage.”
Answer Adapted himself to the bourgeoisie and become conventional
“No, Beatrice. I enjoyed them. I adapted myself to the bourgeoisie. I became conventional.”
Answer Connecticut
“To St. Regis’s in Connecticut.”
Answer Harrow and then Yale
“He wants to see you. He went to Harrow and then to Yale—became a Catholic.”
Answer Forty-four
“Monsignor was forty-four then, and bustling—a trifle too stout for symmetry, with hair the color of spun gold”
Answer Sissies
“I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes.”
Answer The Honorable Thornton Hancock
“This turned out to be the Honorable Thornton Hancock, of Boston, ex-minister to The Hague”
Answer Doctor Dougall
“it pleased him when Doctor Dougall told him at the end of a heated conference that he could, if he wished, get the best marks in school.”
Answer Nabiscos
“comfortably couched up in his room, he munched Nabiscos and finished “The White Company.”
Answer The Astor
“the women’s eyes at the Astor, where he and young Paskert from St. Regis’ had dinner.”
Answer "The Little Millionaire"
“The play was “The Little Millionaire,” with George M. Cohan, and there was one stunning young brunette”
Answer Quarter-back
“Amory at quarter-back, exhorting in wild despair, making impossible tackles”
Answer Rahill
“found a co-philosopher in Rahill, the president of the sixth form.”
Answer Tortoise-shell spectacles
“The slickers of that year had adopted tortoise-shell spectacles as badges of their slickerhood”
Answer The pleasantest country club in America
“Princeton drew him most, with its atmosphere of bright colors and its alluring reputation as the pleasantest country club in America.”
This Side of Paradise, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. Public domain in the United States.