Q 01/05

Which author of beloved pioneer novels led her Order of the Eastern Star chapter in Mansfield, Missouri, in 1902?

A) Willa Cather

B) Laura Ingalls Wilder

C) Gene Stratton-Porter

D) Kate Douglas Wiggin

Answer · why

B) Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder joined the Mansfield chapter in 1897, some 35 years before her first Little House book appeared. She had first asked to join a ch...

Q 02/05

Which Freemason, a lawyer and teacher, created the Order of the Eastern Star in 1850 so women could share in Masonry?

A) Rob Morris

B) Albert Pike

C) Albert Mackey

D) Thomas Smith Webb

Answer · why

A) Rob Morris

Rob Morris had been a Freemason for only four years when he drew up the order. He believed the lodge's benefits should reach a member's wife, daughter...

Q 03/05

The Order of the Eastern Star keeps its international headquarters in a 1909 mansion in which city?

A) Chicago, Illinois

B) Boston, Massachusetts

C) Richmond, Virginia

D) Washington, D.C.

Answer · why

D) Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. is home to the International Temple, a mansion the order bought in 1935. When it was new, people said it made the White House look ti...

Q 04/05

What title does the presiding officer of an Order of the Eastern Star chapter hold, an office open only to women?

A) Honored Queen

B) Worthy Advisor

C) Worthy Matron

D) Royal Matron

Answer · why

C) Worthy Matron

Worthy Matron is the top office in a chapter, usually reached by moving up through the junior offices one year at a time. A man who is a Freemason ser...

Q 05/05

The Eastern Star's founder was crowned Poet Laureate of Freemasonry in 1884 as successor to which Scottish poet?

A) Robert Burns

B) Walter Scott

C) Robert Fergusson

D) Allan Ramsay

Answer · why

A) Robert Burns

Robert Burns was, by lodge tradition, made poet laureate of an Edinburgh lodge in 1787. The founder earned his crown with hundreds of poems about Maso...