Q 01/05

Why did Wright's 1959 New York Times obituary call him 89 when he was 91?

A) A misprint

B) His own lie

C) Burned records

D) His widow's error

Answer · why

B) His own lie

His own lie. Born in 1867, Wright later moved the year to 1869, the year his sister Jane was born, and the newspaper took his word and printed June 8,...

Q 02/05

Wright's mother's family, the Lloyd Joneses, had emigrated to Wisconsin from which country?

A) Scotland

B) Ireland

C) Wales

D) Norway

Answer · why

C) Wales

Wales. The Lloyd Joneses were Unitarians who left in 1844 seeking religious freedom; Wright later gave his Wisconsin home a name from their language, ...

Q 03/05

By Wright's own account, how did his mother decorate his nursery to raise an architect?

A) With drawings of Roman ruins

B) With engravings of English cathedrals

C) With her own watercolours of barns

D) With Japanese woodblock prints

Answer · why

B) With engravings of English cathedrals

With engravings of English cathedrals. He wrote that she expected her first child to grow up to build beautiful buildings, and hung his nursery with p...

Q 04/05

Which educational blocks, found by his mother in 1876, did Wright credit with shaping his sense of geometry?

A) Montessori Bricks

B) Anchor Blocks

C) Meccano

D) Froebel Gifts

Answer · why

D) Froebel Gifts

Froebel Gifts. His mother, a teacher, bought the kindergarten set after seeing it on show, and Wright wrote decades later that its maple cubes, sphere...

Q 05/05

Wisconsin's university taught no architecture, so which subject did Wright study there before leaving without a degree?

A) Fine art and drawing

B) Music composition

C) Agricultural science

D) Civil engineering

Answer · why

D) Civil engineering

Civil engineering. He stayed only a few terms, working for the dean of engineering to help support his family, then left for Chicago in 1887; in 1955 ...