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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two Tania, Chapters 15-20: Sea Change; A Still Country; The Clear Darkness; Safari Life; Lucifer's Child; The Wing of Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In photographs from her childhood, Dinesen appeared to the the _______________ sister.
(a) artistic.
(b) thinking.
(c) belligerent.
(d) beautiful.

2. The aristocratic landowners in Africa considered the natives to be ________________.
(a) frightening.
(b) inferior.
(c) warriors.
(d) magical.

3. Who was Andreas Nicolaj Hansen?
(a) Dinesen's first husband.
(b) Dinesen's great grandfather.
(c) Dinesen's tutor.
(d) Dinesen's godfather.

4. To what country did Dinesen and her fiance plan to move?
(a) India.
(b) England.
(c) Kenya.
(d) China.

5. What was Dinesen's most famous literary work?
(a) Out of Africa.
(b) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(c) Babbette's Feast.
(d) The Sound and the Fury.

Short Answer Questions

1. The person in #39 had a disregard for _________________.

2. In what year was the work in #6 created?

3. By what other name was Dinesen called?

4. Who believed that both sexes should be celibate before marriage and monogamous afterward?

5. In what year did the Dinesen house burn down?

(see the answer key)

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