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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three Isak Dinesen, Chapters 37-40: Winter's Tales; Life in a Cage; Heretics; Death of a Centaur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did 7,200 Jews evacuate to during the war?
(a) America.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Kenya.
(d) Sweden.

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

3. What did Dinesen and her fiance plan to establish in the country in #52?
(a) A travel company.
(b) A publishing company.
(c) A school.
(d) A farm.

4. What did Dinesen help with during the war?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The Red Cross.
(c) The Resistance Movement.
(d) News reporting.

5. The stories in the book in #148 reflected her longing for _____________________.
(a) adventure.
(b) something she once had.
(c) financial prosperity.
(d) children.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Dinesen publish her first story?

2. Why did Dinesen go to Berlin in 1940?

3. What did Dinesen do after being at home in Denmark for awhile?

4. How old was Dinesen in 1906?

5. After the war, Dinesen's health disintegrated due to age and ___________________.

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