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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. Etty decides to work her way through her negative feelings in hopes of what?
(a) Feeling confident without her family's love.
(b) Coming to a place of acceptance and forgiveness.
(c) Finding a new family.
(d) Being forgiven by her family.

2. Who encouraged Julius Spier to go into a practice and take on clients?
(a) Fromm.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Sullivan.
(d) Jung.

3. Each day, Etty's writings speak of her need to gain control over ______________.
(a) The Germans.
(b) Others.
(c) Other Jews.
(d) Herself.

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

5. By September of 1941, it becomes clear from her diary entries that Etty Hillesum has begun to change _________________.
(a) Significantly and radically.
(b) Quite a bit.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Very little.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

2. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?

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

4. Etty's relationship with her father is somewhat __________.

5. This is the word used by the Germans to refer to the process by which large numbers of Jews were captured from their homes and off the streets and then put into ghettos or camps.

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