United States History Question of the Day


Cover, 1st edition,
The Great Gatsby
, 1925
(Source:Wikimedia Commons--public domain)

Question 0100125:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

This is the famous last line of The Great Gatsby, a novel by which of the Lost Generation authors who wrote about the lives of the rich in post-World War I America?

    (A)    Ernest Hemingway
    (B)    Sinclair Lewis
    (C)    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    (D)    Sherwood Anderson
    (E)    John Dos Passos


Answer and explanation