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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Lise's little boy?

2. How old was Ditlevsen when she had her second abortion?

3. How much younger was Alfrida than Viggo?

4. What color was everything in Viggo's living room?

5. In Chapter 17, where did Viggo F. Moller arrange to meet Ditlevsen for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 7, where did Ebbe spend the night when he did not come home?

2. Where did Ester and Ditlevsen go for a vacation together?

3. How did Ditlevsen get information on a place where to send her poetry for possible publication?

4. In Chapter 15, what was the apartment like that Ditlevsen rented?

5. What did Viggo tell Ditlevsen about himself in Chapter 20?

6. How did the master of the lithographer shop die?

7. What relationship did Ditlevsen have with Piet Hein?

8. What was the new apartment like in Chapter 11?

9. What did Ditlevsen learn when she called the editor of Wild Wheat, Viggo F. Moller?

10. What was it like for Ditlevsen being married to Viggo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Krogh told Ditlevsen that “People always want something from each other” (121). What did Ditlevsen want from Mr. Krogh? What did he want from her? How did they use one another? Did Ditlevsen tend to use people with whom she had relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Ditlevsen and her mother were with her aunt Rosalia when her aunt died. What did Ditlevsen observe when she saw her aunt die? How did Aunt Rosalia’s death change Ditlevsen’s view of death?

Essay Topic 3

Ditlevsen had a series of jobs after she left school. What jobs did she hold? How did these jobs affect her identity?

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