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Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect Extraordinaire

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Frank Lloyd Wright  Architect Extraordinaire game quiz
"Explore some interesting facts about Frank Lloyd Wright's personal life as well as his architectural achievements."

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1. What did Wright's mother do while he was a baby to foster the idea of architecture?
    helped him draw pictures of buildings
    read books on architecture to him
    hung drawings of famous buildings around his bed
    took him to see famous buildings


2. When Wright reached the age of seven, his mother introduced him to a visual education method using wooden blocks and paper shapes. What was the name of this method?
    Froebel
    Cognitive
    Montessori
    Schrock


3. When Wright was around eleven, his parents sent him to work each summer on an uncle's farm in rural Wisconsin. Why did they do this?
    wanted him to earn his own money
    wanted to toughen him up
    he didn't get along with his siblings
    wanted to get him away from big city life


4. What upheaval in Wright's life forced him to be on his own at age eighteen?
    his father died
    his parents divorced
    his family disowned him
    his father's business failed


5. Wright's first opportunity to do some architectural design work came when he got to assist Chicago architect Joseph Silsbee. What type of building did they design?
    university hall
    library
    chapel
    theater


6. In 1887, what was Wright's first design to actually be built?
    a building for his aunts' school
    a house for his mother
    a house for one of his uncles
    a building for his brother-in-law's business


7. When designing, Wright considered the materials, the land, and the occupants as well as the function of the structure. With what phrase did Wright express this theory?
    Forn Follows Function
    Function Follows Form
    Function First, Form Follows
    Form and Function Are One


8. Before turning forty years old, Wright did something scandalous that impacted his reputation. What did he do?
    used substandard materials to save money
    stole another architect's design
    cheated a business partner
    abandoned his family


9. At which of Wright's houses did a 1914 fire destroy everything except his studio?
    Robie House
    Graycliff
    Fallingwater
    Taliesin


10. Wright became famous on an international level with his design of the Imperial Hotel. In what world capital was the hotel located?
    Berlin, Germany
    Paris, France
    Tokyo, Japan
    Brussels, Belgium


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