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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three Isak Dinesen, Chapters 33-36: Amor Fati; Seven Gothic Tales; In a Dark Wood; Out of Africa.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dinesen have to sell in order to pay bills during this time?
(a) Her jewelry.
(b) Her designer clothes.
(c) Her car.
(d) Her farm equipment.

2. Dinesen never wanted to be like _________________.
(a) her friends' mothers.
(b) her childhood friends.
(c) the women at church.
(d) the other women in her family.

3. Who was Denys Finch Hatton?
(a) Dinesen's lover.
(b) Dinesen's brother-in-law.
(c) Dinesen's accountant.
(d) Dinesen's physician.

4. What were some of the first things that Dinesen wrote?
(a) Poems.
(b) Essays.
(c) Nursery rhymes.
(d) Little plays.

5. Who did Wilhelm Dinesen marry?
(a) Ingeborg Westenholz.
(b) Inger Stevens.
(c) Irma Weisenheimer.
(d) Inga Westendorff.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Dinesen spend most of her time during her childhood?

2. Sometimes women who competed with men were considered to be ___________________.

3. What was the one thing that Thomas admired about Dinesen?

4. Dinesen's mother came from a family of ___________________.

5. Why did Dinesen feel abandoned by Denys in 1928?

(see the answer key)

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