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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three Isak Dinesen, Chapters 41-46: Folie a Deux; Goddess and Barfly; The Immortal Story; The Pact Is Broken; Betrayals; Should Not My Mind Keep the Knots?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dinesen thought that _________________________ were among the most courageous acts a human could do.
(a) validating and praising people.
(b) recognizing and acknowledging heroism.
(c) acknowledging and confronting an abyss.
(d) identifying and eliminating poverty.

2. Why did Dinesen go to Berlin in 1940?
(a) Vacation.
(b) To free Jewish people.
(c) To visit friends.
(d) Journalistic assignment.

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

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

5. In what year did Dinesen turn 50?
(a) 1947
(b) 1929.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which war further strained Dinesen's relations with the aristocratic landowners in Africa?

2. When Dinesen was in her 70s, she was ___________________.

3. Who was Andreas Nicolaj Hansen?

4. Dinesen found that female students at the Copenhagen Royal Academy ____________________.

5. How could Denys best be described?

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