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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?
(a) Etty's clothing.
(b) Etty's eating problem.
(c) Etty's home.
(d) Etty's diary.

2. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.
(a) Jules.
(b) Julius.
(c) Spier.
(d) S.

3. Etty was a twenty-seven-year-old single woman living where, making her way in the city?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

4. Etty remarks that her lovers have all felt like what?
(a) Husbands.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Friends.
(d) Bosses.

5. Etty acknowledges _____________ that is inherent in all human beings.
(a) The love.
(b) The hatred.
(c) The fear.
(d) The loneliness.

6. Esther ("Etty") Hillesum began writing a dairy in early __________ of 1941.
(a) May.
(b) April
(c) March.
(d) June.

7. This greed reminds Etty of who?
(a) Her lovers.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

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

9. It is at this point that Etty Hillesum identifies her loneliness as a deep well that can only be filled by ______________.
(a) The presence of God.
(b) Men.
(c) Family.
(d) Others Jews.

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

11. Etty admonishes herself to let go of what things?
(a) Things inside herself.
(b) All things.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Things outside of herself.

12. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

13. Hillesum is ___________; someone who is actively involved in examining the world and her perceptions thereof from the inside out rather than the other way around.
(a) A finder.
(b) A hopeful.
(c) A lover.
(d) A seeker.

14. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.
(a) Mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
(b) Physically.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Emotionally and spiritually.

15. Hillesum refers to a feeling of ______________ toward men as something worthy of resolution.
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Loathing.
(d) Ambivalence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty's day-to-day life centers around her work as what?

2. Hillesum writes that on Sunday, June 14, 1941 the German government begins to round up and ____________ the Jews.

3. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?

4. Who encouraged Julius Spier to go into a practice and take on clients?

5. Early in her writings, Etty says that she finds Spier intriguing and she is impressed with what?

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