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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 pen name did Dinesen adopt?
(a) Orion.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Oleander.
(d) Osceola.

2. Who helped Dinesen manage through her illness?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Thelma.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Bror.

3. Dinesen's loyalties during the war were on the side of which country?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Denmark.

4. Dinesen considered the aristocratic landowners to be __________________.
(a) political.
(b) advanced.
(c) racists.
(d) civilized.

5. Dinesen found that female students at the Copenhagen Royal Academy ____________________.
(a) swooned easily at their male instructors.
(b) dropped out more frequently than males.
(c) were more likely to study on weekends.
(d) were treated as if they were biding their time until marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dinesen's work blurred the line between _____________________.

2. In what year did Dinesen leave for Africa?

3. Where did Denys take Dinesen in 1929?

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

5. How did Dinesen feel about this period of her life (mid-1920s)?

(see the answer key)

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