CONCORD
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Barrow Bookstore Presents:
Trivia
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This is a hot time for the housing real estate market. But if you were living in Victorian era Concord and about to buy a house from a family that suffered from chronic headaches, sore throats, and irritated eyes, what house feature might give you pause? a) The water supply b) Gas light c) Brightly colored wallpaper d) Solarium full of exotic plants
and toured The Old Manse, The Wayside, and Orchard House. Unlike Louisa May Alcott, whose best-known heroines were the four March sisters, the Canadian author’s most famous heroine was an orphaned only child with bosom friends and likes to drink raspberry cordial. Like Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The House of Seven Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House the Canadian author’s character also lived in a house of gables. Who was the author and what was the title of the book(s)? Walk into the woods of Concord and
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Concord writer Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in which of the following houses? Select all that apply. a) The Old Manse b) The Hillside c) The Wayside d) The Samuel Whitney House
A riddle based on Henry David Thoreau’s words from Walden: I am an iron horse; I make the hills echo with my snort like thunder; I shake the earth with my feet; I breathe fire and smoke from my nostrils. What am I?
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Written in 1868, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was based on her family’s real life. In it, Louisa turns herself and her three sisters into the March sisters – what are their names?
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In Little Women, the youngest March sister has a fondness for what treat? Pineapples Raspberry cordial Huckleberry jam Pickled limes
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Concord has long been a pilgrimage site for history and literary enthusiasts. A Canadian author visited Concord in 1910 68
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In Colonial era Concord, taverns were gathering places for meetings and socialization. Today, if you wanted to meet others in an 18th-century-esque tavern in Concord, you could go to: a) Hartwell Tavern b) Jones’s Tavern c) The Wright Tavern d) The Village Forge Tavern
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Boston publisher Robert Brothers issued Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women in 1868. If the publishers wanted to promote the book and send one copy to every state in the Union in 1868, how many books would they need to send? a) 13 b) 29 c) 37 d) 42 e) 50 f) No! I’m done with school and I’m not answering questions like this anymore.
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back into the 1600s Puritan era where the unknown and temptation dwelt in the wilds. Here you might find the spirits of women with the letter “A” sewn to their gowns. What did that letter signify? a) Able to do farm labor b) Adult of marrying age c) Adulteress d) Awesome
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Prior to writing books like Little Women, Louisa May Alcott wrote “blood and thunder” thriller tales full of romance and psychological twists. Louisa called them her “gorgeous fancies… [that could] interfere with the proper grayness of Old Concord.” Which of the below is/are not a Louisa May Alcott thriller title/s: a) Perilous Play b) Lost in A Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse c) Agatha’s Confession, or Thrice Tempted d) The Mysterious Key and What It Opened e) Hester’s Vengeance, or Red Is Not Her Color
