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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. Hillesum lives in a house owned by a widower named _________________.
(a) Handel Wagner.
(b) Heinz Wiener.
(c) Hansel Wolff.
(d) Han Wegerif.

2. Max ("Osias") Kormann was what to Ettay?
(a) A lover.
(b) A priest.
(c) A brother in faith.
(d) A close friend.

3. Etty becomes acutely aware of the individual's responsibility to engage in rigorous _________________.
(a) Self-denial.
(b) Mental purging.
(c) Self-examination.
(d) Exercise.

4. It turns out that the Jews being sent to the transit camp are from where?
(a) Poland.
(b) All different parts of the world.
(c) Holland.
(d) Scandinavia.

5. What are in short supply?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Bunks.
(c) Huts and barracks.
(d) Places to sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Etty at the time Spier dies?

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

3. Etty Hillesum references whose first letter to the Corinthians?

4. Hillesum holds fast to what belief?

5. What at the camp was rampant?

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