Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Sometimes women who competed with men were considered to be ___________________. (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 25-28: A Love of Parallels; Nature and the Ideal; Holding Out; A Release from Self)

over achievers.

lesbians.

losers.

role models.

2.

How did Denys die? (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 29-32: Lion Hunt; Visitors to the Farm; Spirits of the Air; Closing the Parentheses)

Gunshot wound.

Plane crash.

Terminal illness.

Animal attack.

3.

How did Dinesen write her stories after her health failed? (from Book Four Pellegrina, Chapters 47-52: Baksheesh; Echoes;)

She typed them.

She dictated them.

She had a ghostwriter.

She wrote them in longhand.

4.

What did Dinesen and Bror do after Thomas left the farm? (from Book Two Tania, Chapters 21-24: Dramatis Personae; Intermezzo; Thomas; Kamante and Lulu)

Hired a new foreman.

Built a school.

Sold the farm.

Separated.

5.

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)

Dementia.

Syphilis.

Cancer.

Arthritis.

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