Quiz  /  Writers’ Retreats Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who lived in Strawberry Hill?

  • Horace Walpole
  • The Beatles
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Eleanor Rigby

  • 2. 
    Which writer lived briefly at Brook Farm before moving to The Old Manse?

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Elizabeth Peabody
  • Herman Melville
  • Henry David Thoreau

  • 3. 
    Which publishing house was named for the home of a noted English writer?

  • Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
  • Faber and Faber
  • Hogarth Press
  • New Directions

  • 4. 
    Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset, England, was the home of a writer from 1885 to 1928. Who designed and lived in Max Gate?

  • Thomas Hardy
  • Rebecca West
  • E.M. Forster
  • Lytton Strachey

  • 5. 
    Which Mississippi novelist purchased an 1840s Greek Revival home and named it Rowan Oak?

  • Eudora Welty
  • Flannery O’Connor
  • William Faulkner
  • Tennessee Williams

  • 6. 
    What was the original name of the home in which Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor lived for 13 years and died?

  • Sorrel Farm
  • A Good Man
  • Peacock Place
  • Andalusia

  • 7. 
    Ham Spray House, in Ham, Wiltshire, England, was home to which Bloomsbury writer?

  • Lytton Strachey
  • Maynard Keynes
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Clive Bell

  • 8. 
    What Egyptian-born British writer lived for a time in a 17th-century house called Duck End?

  • Oscar Wilde
  • Vita Sackville-West
  • Penelope Lively
  • Kingsley Amis

  • 9. 
    What children’s writer lived in Gipsy House, Great Missenden?

  • Beatrix Potter
  • Roald Dahl
  • Maurice Sendak
  • E. Nesbit

  • 10. 
    Who lived on Strawberry Lane, Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod, in a house he called the Elephant House, for his favorite animal?

  • Maurice Sendak
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Edward Gorey
  • Herman Melville
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