Trivia on Tara Westover's Educated

Question 1

What is the main genre of literature is the story?

Accepted Answer

Coming-of-Age

Question 2

What place had Tara not step foot into before the age of 17?

Accepted Answer

A classroom

Question 3

What important event had Tara not known of before college?

Accepted Answer

The Holocaust

Question 4

Tara Westover never received a High School Diploma.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

As Tara learns more from her studies, what does she realize of her father?

Accepted Answer

He has symptoms of bi-polar disorder

Question 6

"There are things you have to learn that nobody can tell you" is a common theme in Tara's story of becoming educated.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What was ultimately the result of Tara speaking out about her memories of abuse?

Accepted Answer

She was shunned and ostracized by a large portion of her family

Question 8

What motivated Tara to teach herself algebra?

Accepted Answer

Her desire to study singing and music in a school

Question 9

Tara meets with the "bishop", and he encourages her to apply for a grant. Why is she hesitant?

Accepted Answer

She was taught never to take money from the government

Question 10

As she would grow what specific trauma did both Tara and her sister Audrey face?

Accepted Answer

Abuse from their brother Shawn

Question 11

What was Faye's, Tara's mother, profession before the essential oils business?

Accepted Answer

Midwife

Question 12

What does Tara's father fear?

Accepted Answer

Public Education, The Government

Question 13

Gene, Tara's father, trusted the government, medical established, and public education

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

What religion does Tara's family practice?

Accepted Answer

Mormonism

Question 15

Besides music, who or what else inspired Tara to leave Buck's Peak?

Accepted Answer

Her brother, Tyler

Question 16

What is the name of the mountain that Tara grew up on?

Accepted Answer

Buck's Peak, Idaho

Question 17

After Tara returned to Cambridge, in 2014 she was awarded. . .

Accepted Answer

A PhD in History

Question 18

What did Brigham Young University give Tara?

Accepted Answer

A start to a real education

Question 19

Who does Tara's father, Gene, claim he is?

Accepted Answer

A prophet of God

Question 20

Who is the memoir about?

Accepted Answer

Tara Westover and her family

Questions 20