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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Fitzgerald, F. Scott : The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Introduction:
"One of Fitzgerald's early stories is this satirical allegory about wealth and its great price."


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


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


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
    parasols
    fox hunting
    Negro slaves


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


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


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 secret dungeon in the chateau
    in a glass-lined pit in the ground
    in a blimp above the mountain
    in a great glass dome


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 are white slaves
    they are in a separate pit
    they were murdered
    they are Percy's harem


12. What attacks the mountain?
    tanks
    airplanes
    blimps
    cavalrymen


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 aviators capture it
    the Washingtons blow it up
    the Washingtons shoot down the planes
    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


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