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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. What is Barneveld?
(a) An extermination camp.
(b) A special camp intended to house creative people.
(c) A town that is not yet occupied by German forces.
(d) A ghetto.

2. Etty Hillesum's diary begins on what day?
(a) Sunday, March 9, 1941.
(b) Sunday, April 9, 1941.
(c) Sunday, June 9, 1941.
(d) Sunday, May 9, 1941.

3. Each day, Etty's writings speak of her need to gain control over ______________.
(a) Herself.
(b) Other Jews.
(c) The Germans.
(d) Others.

4. What moment became the most important moment?
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) The present.
(d) The moment she became a Christian.

5. Spier's insights psychology came as the result of his own work with whom?
(a) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Carl Gustav Jung.
(c) Erich Fromm.
(d) Harry Stack Sullivan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty becomes acutely aware of the individual's responsibility to engage in rigorous _________________.

2. Does the widower's age concern Etty?

3. Etty reveals further details of _________________________ and painful recollections of the regular prisoner transports leaving each day.

4. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?

5. Max ("Osias") Kormann was what to Ettay?

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