Diamond as Big as The RITZ Chapter 1

Fitzgerald characterizes John T. Unger to hold his own personal qualities by making him

• Carry an inferiority complex and an avid athlete

• Carry an inferiority complex and a great dancer

• Carry an air of presumptuous fatuity and erratic dispostion

• Carry loads of gold bars from home to St. Midas

What is a chateau

• A countryside acre filled with acorns and fig trees

• A countryside estate of poor quality

• A countryside estate of grand quality

• A countryside stable used to house fine horses and livestock

John T Unger was not fond of his collegue’s fathers because

• they were money kings

• They were all from the north

• He thought of them with “exceeding sameness”

• They were funnier than he was

John T. Unger’s mother was characterized as men wanted to see women in the 1920’s

• True men wanted women in politics

• True men wanted women to speak their minds

• False, in the 1920’s men wanted women to be fun and beautiful only

• False, in the 1920’s men wanted women to focus on physical science and not political science

John T. Unger’s friend, Percy Washington was characterized as being

• Aloof: cool distant and caring

• Aloof: cool, having many close relationships and whatever attitude

• Aloof, cool distant and manipulative

• Aloof, cool distant and with a “whatever“ attitude

The word fatituity in chapter one is used to describe

• John T. Unger’s mom’s - “motherly instinct”

• John T. Unger’s mom’s - “motherly foolishness“

• John T unger’s father’s - “fatherly instinct”

• John T. Unger’s father’s - “Fatherly foolishness”

Percy Washington was Not impressed

• with John’s information regarding other wealthy men from Europe

• with the information John read in the Almanac about other wealthy men in America

• The size of the Schnlitzer–Murphy’s estate

• The size of the Schnlitzer–Murphy-Murphy’s jewels

What figurative language technique will be used greatly throughout the story, (think of the title)

• Metaphor

• simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

The fact that Percy’s dad doesn’t pay income tax on his real fortune tells us

• It is secret and may be illlegal

• He is of Spanish decent

• He is working with the US Dept of the Interior

• He is a descendent of George Washington

The people of Hades were characterized as

• Sophisticated

• Tacky

• Refined

• Well-Educated