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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters from Westerbork (Pages 235 - 365).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Much of the discomfort among those living in the house stemmed from what?
(a) People's hatred of the German cook, Käthe.
(b) People's mistrust of the German cook, Käthe.
(c) People's mistrust of the Jewish cook, Käthe.
(d) People's hatred of the Jewish cook, Käthe.

2. This Biblical quote is what?
(a) A very rarely-mentioned quote.
(b) A very little-known quote.
(c) The most famous and most often quoted verses of all time.
(d) A very popular quote.

3. It is at this time that Etty realizes that she and Spier may have no future because of what?
(a) Their busy schedules.
(b) The war.
(c) Their religions.
(d) Their interests.

4. Etty admits to being ________________ overwhelmed.
(a) Not at all.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Completely.
(d) Very.

5. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?
(a) To Sachsenhausen.
(b) To Belzec.
(c) To Veluwe.
(d) To the Warsaw ghetto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty prefers to "be there for everyone" rather than do what?

2. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.

3. Does Etty feel it is necessary to purge her personality of everything possible which does not support her new way of being in the world?

4. Etty notices that people have a way of doing what?

5. Before World War II arrived on her doorstep, Etty Hillesum's main concern was what?

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