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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 did Dinesen's family help her do that was a positive thing?
(a) Establish a school.
(b) Re-established her literary career.
(c) Start a jewelry business.
(d) Buy a home in Denmark.

2. What type of work kept Denys busy in 1928?
(a) Political campaigning.
(b) Airline pilot.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Safari guide.

3. Some of Dinesen's letters to her family hinted at _____________________.
(a) relocation.
(b) divorce.
(c) religion.
(d) suicide.

4. Who became a very close friend to Dinesen in Africa?
(a) The gentlemen's club manager.
(b) The minister's wife.
(c) The shipping office manager.
(d) The native foreman of the plantation.

5. How could Dinesen's marriage to Bror be described?
(a) Content.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Denys spend much of his time doing?

2. Why had Dinesen primarily married Bror?

3. How could Denys best be described?

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

5. The aristocratic landowners in Africa considered the natives to be ________________.

(see the answer key)

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