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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Most of Dinesen's work was created in which literary style?
(a) Historical.
(b) Biographical.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Science Fiction.

4. With whom did Dinesen build a rapport while in Africa?
(a) The African natives.
(b) The aristocratic landowners.
(c) The local minister.
(d) The local politicians.

5. Dinesen's relationship with Denys Finch Hatton became a major part of her story ____________________.
(a) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(b) Out of Africa.
(c) Tender Is the Night.
(d) Babbette's Feast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dinesen not feel as if she needed to be faithful to Bror?

2. What could Dinesen not tolerate in Bror?

3. How did Hans Blixen die?

4. How old was Dinesen when her father died?

5. In what city did Dinesen go on a shopping spree after a good harvest in 1918?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Dinesen's biography been compared to a novel?

2. Describe the contentious relationship Dinesen had with her brother, Thomas?

3. What was the nature of Dinesen's relationship with her father and how did she address her feelings of loss after his death many years later?

4. How did Hans Blixen's rejection of Dinesen ironically work in her favor in terms of what her Aunt Bess wanted for her?

5. How could Dinesen's writing style best be characterized, and what was her most famous literary work?

6. Where did Dinesen study art formally and why was the experience disappointing for her?

7. What was the nature of the conflict between Dinesen and her Aunt Bess?

8. In addition to diseases, what were some of the losses that Dinesen suffered in her life that made her health fail in 1923?

9. What decision did Dinesen make to end her period of indecisiveness?

10. How could Dinesen's marriage to Bror best be described?

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