The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

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1. Name the "small town on the Mississippi River" rich boy John T. Unger comes from. Styx Hades Acheron Ultima Thule

2. What prep school outside Boston, Mass. does Unger go to and meet Percy Washington at? St. Cuthbert's St. Midas St. Christopher's St. Stephan's

3. Just how big is the diamond of the title that Percy's family owns? the size of a basketball it's an entire mountain in Montana the size of Rodin's "Thinker" the size of the White House

4. What was Percy's ancestor who found the diamond? a balloonist a Civil War colonel a geologist a gold miner

5. What does Percy's family have as a legacy from the past? hoop skirts Negro slaves fox hunting parasols

6. Name the "servant" attending to Unger. Nicodemus Jasper Beulah Gygsum

7. What does the automated bath used by Unger NOT have? motion pictures sauna glass aquarium fountain

8. Percy has two sisters, Jasmine and Kismine. Which one does Unger fall in love with? Answer: (One Word)

9. Where do the Washingtons keep intruders who have discovered the great diamond? in a great glass dome in a secret dungeon in the chateau in a glass-lined pit in the ground in a blimp above the mountain

10. What do patriarch Braddock Washington and the two boys NOT do on the mountain? golf hunting polo swimming

11. What does Unger learn about some female "guests" to the mountain? they were murdered they are Percy's harem they are in a separate pit they are white slaves

12. What attacks the mountain? tanks cavalrymen blimps airplanes

13. Who does Braddock offer a big diamond to during the fight? Answer: (One Word)

14. What happens to the great diamond at the end? the Washingtons blow it up the Washingtons shoot down the planes the aviators capture it both sides kill each other

15. What author prefaced his book writing of the similarities between his story and Fitzgerald's? William Pene du Bois Ralph Stedman Michael Ayrton Chris Van Allburg