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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. Etty admits not being interested in what?
(a) Living.
(b) Writing.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Men.

2. What is the primary reason Etty gives for deciding to change her plans with Spier, prior to his death?
(a) The fact he is engaged.
(b) The differences in their beliefs.
(c) The differences in their ages.
(d) The war.

3. In another letter (this one to her good friend Maria Tuinzing), Etty talks about sharing living quarters with whom?
(a) Several elderly women.
(b) Several young women.
(c) Several children.
(d) Several other women.

4. Hillesum writes that on Sunday, June 14, 1941 the German government begins to round up and ____________ the Jews.
(a) Centralize.
(b) Humiliate.
(c) Kill.
(d) Scold.

5. As part of her therapy, Etty and Spier engage in what?
(a) A kind of dancing.
(b) A kind of wrestling.
(c) A kind of yelling.
(d) A kind of arguing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty remarks that some barracks can make one feel how?

2. At the end of her letter to the sisters, Etty's tone is what?

3. Etty comes to love what?

4. In one of a series of letters to Kormann at Westerbork, Etty tells her friend what about her flesh?

5. Etty's motivations have become unambiguously ______________.

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