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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. How did the aristocratic landowners in Africa feel about Dinesen?
(a) They were wary of her.
(b) They exiled her.
(c) They supported her.
(d) They never accepted her.

2. Who believed that both sexes should be celibate before marriage and monogamous afterward?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Educators.
(d) Priests.

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

4. Which of the following does NOT describe Wilhelm Dinesen?
(a) He fought in wars.
(b) He was an editor.
(c) He went on hunting trips.
(d) He lived with Native Americans.

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. Dinesen had made a few friends in Africa who were on the ________________ side in the war.

2. Dinesen was always interested in writing and ________________.

3. What relation was Dinesen's fiance to the man she loved?

4. Dinesen considered the aristocratic landowners to be __________________.

5. Which of Dinesen's sisters died at an early age?

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