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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 the now-infamous extermination camp in Poland?
(a) Chelmno.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Auschwitz-Burkenau.
(d) Buchenwald.

2. How is Etty at the time Spier dies?
(a) She is busy.
(b) She is sad.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She is content.

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

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

5. What does Etty do after Spier's death?
(a) She writes his family a long letter.
(b) She tries to forget about him.
(c) She writes Spier a long letter.
(d) She prays for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

2. When does Etty not allow her faith to lapse?

3. Etty refuses to allow what to lapse?

4. What at the camp was rampant?

5. People who are scheduled for transport are given what?

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