Quiz: What kind of a bohemian are you?
What’s your ideal home?
a) A simple garret in the city – bare floorboards, a mattress in the corner, and a window for dreamily watching the world go by
b) A grand hotel with a gilded saloon bar in which to hold forth amongst your glittering friends
c) A sprawling country retreat with plenty of rooms for your friends to stay and a large garden to stage private theatricals
d) A converted warehouse near a canal with its own gym, café and bicycle park
e) A comfortable house in suburbia, with a tidy garden - within easy commute of your office
What do you like to drink?
a) Coffee - it’s all you can afford and one cup is shared between your friends as you while away hours and hours in the cafe discussing philosophy
b) Absinthe – you consider the ‘green goddess’ as poetical as anything in the world
c) Vin Ordinaire – charmingly rustic French red wine, out of a beaker
d) Soya latte or a flat white – coffee masquerading as something more complicated
e) A nice cuppa in the morning and a pint in the evening
When you get dressed in the morning, what’s your chief aim?
a) To shock – either outlandish dress or no clothes at all, but you definitely want to be noticed
b) To be elegant – tailored suits demonstrate you are flamboyant and fastidious in equal measure
c) To seem nonchalantly liberated – flowing material, wide sleeves, headscarves and cardigans
d) To display your cool credentials – deliberately ill-fitting trousers, off the shelf vintage tops
e) To fit in and avoid being noticed – jeans and jumpers from M&S, of course
You meet an attractive stranger and they offer to whisk you off to Paris immediately. Do you:
a) Leap aboard the train with a song in your heart and a dance in your step. Romance is in the air!
b) Accept with alacrity – you simply ADORE the Paris salons
c) Agree – but only if you can bring a friend; threesomes are so much more loving and giving
d) Refuse – everyone knows all the coolest bars are in Ljubljana these days
e) Refuse – You don’t run away with strangers and have already made plans with your family
What is the meaning of life?
a) I live for art. There is nothing else
b) To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.
c) To reject all boundaries in pursuit of truth
d) Meaning of life - is that an app I can download?
e) I’m far too busy paying the mortgage to worry about that
Where do you draw the line?
a) On a canvas
b) At anything too too utterly boring
c) Every line is a Rubicon to be crossed
d) Turning my phone off
e) At whatever would upset the neighbours
Find out what type of bohemian you are below
William and Janey Morris, and Rossetti too
Victoria considers the sleeping arrangements at William and Janey Morris' Red House.
Mostly As
You are one of the original 19th Century bohemians. You live for art and want to forge your own path – but you’re also not averse to showing off.
Mostly Bs
Influenced by dandies and with Oscar Wilde as your hero, you’re a cultivated bohemian who enjoys moving in glamorous society circles.
Mostly Cs
You are a typical Bloomsbury bohemian – fancying yourself a free spirit, well off and with a large circle of friends with whom to go bed-hopping.
Mostly Ds
You are a wannabe bohemian – a hipster. You express your individuality by purchasing the same bohemian commodities as the rest of your tribe.
Mostly Es
You are bourgeois – fundamentally not bohemian at all. You want a comfortable life, fitting in with mainstream society.
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