Mrs. Bondi
ELA 5-6
F. Scott Fitzgerald Viewing Guide
Name __________________________________
The Great American Dreamer
1. What did Fitzgerald want to be? ____________________________________
2. What was easy for him? __________________________________________
3. Where did he attend college? ______________________________________
4. What was Fitzgerald’s second chance at glory? ________________________________________________
5. Who was Fitzgerald’s (second) golden girl? ___________________________________________________
6. What was the title of his first novel? ________________________________________________________
7. This era/time period was known as _____________________________________________
8. Where did the Fitzgeralds move in 1924? ________________________________________
9. Why? _____________________________________________________________________
10. What famous American writer did Fitzgerald meet in a bar? __________________________________________
11. What marked the end of The Jazz Age? ___________________________________________________________
12. Zelda was diagnosed with ________________________________
13. What was the title of Fitzgerald’s fourth novel? ____________________________________________________
14. In 1937, Fitzgerald left for Hollywood to become a __________________________________.
15. Fitzgerald carried on an affair with ____________________________________.
16. What novel was Fitzgerald working on after getting fired in Hollywood? _________________________________
17. How old was Fitzgerald when he died? ______________
18. How did Zelda die? ________________________________
19. Fitzgerald knew that we all must have ___________________ in our talent.
20. Where are Fitzgerald and Zelda buried? ______________________________________________
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before
us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our
arms farther…. And one fine morning –
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (end of novel)