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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through March 9, 1941 through April 30, 1942 (Pages 3 - 133).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?
(a) Saving the Jews.
(b) Spiritual growth.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her writing.

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

3. Etty realizes that it would be unfair as well as counterproductive to return the Germans' ____________ of her own.
(a) Hatred with hatred.
(b) Hatred with love.
(c) Love with hatred.
(d) Fear with love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty experiences a problem with overeating, which she attributes to what greed?

2. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.

3. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.

4. As part of her therapy, Etty and Spier engage in what?

5. Etty remarks that her lovers have all felt like what?

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