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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. Who proposed marriage to Dinesen?
(a) Bror Blixen.
(b) Brian Bilson.
(c) Brice Broer.
(d) Broward Blunt.

2. Why did Dinesen's maternal family oppose her interest in the men in #25?
(a) They were enemies of the state.
(b) They would never amount to much.
(c) They were not Jewish.
(d) Their philosophies were too radical.

3. In what year did Wilhelm Dinesen marry?
(a) 1954
(b) 1881.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1901.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Isak Dinesen's home country?

2. In what type of business was Wilhelm Dinesen involved?

3. Dinesen considered the aristocratic landowners to be __________________.

4. Who was Dinesen's younger sister?

5. Which of the following does NOT describe Wilhelm Dinesen?

(see the answer key)

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