Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What did Dinesen try to do after Bror left? (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 25-28: A Love of Parallels; Nature and the Ideal; Holding Out; A Release from Self)

Sell the farm.

Open a safari business.

Run the coffee plantation.

Start a jewelry company.

2.

Why did Dinesen arrange to have a biography written? (from Book Four Pellegrina, Chapters 47-52: Baksheesh; Echoes;)

She wanted some sort of legacy.

She bowed to her fans' pressure.

She wasn't comfortable writing a memoir.

She made a deal with a publisher.

3.

After the war, Dinesen's health disintegrated due to age and ___________________. (from Book Three Isak Dinesen, Chapters 37-40: Winter's Tales; Life in a Cage; Heretics; Death of a Centaur)

Cancer.

Arthritis.

Syphilis.

Dementia.

4.

What disease did Dinesen contract from Bror? (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 15-20: Sea Change; A Still Country; The Clear Darkness; Safari Life; Lucifer's Child; The Wing of Death)

Pneumonia.

Syphilis.

Tuberculosis.

Malaria.

5.

How did Hans Blixen die? (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 15-20: Sea Change; A Still Country; The Clear Darkness; Safari Life; Lucifer's Child; The Wing of Death)

In a lake.

In a car crash.

In an airplane crash.

A terminal illness.

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