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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 feels a certain amount of ___________ toward Spier.
(a) Love.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Fear.

2. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?
(a) Following the directions of the Germans.
(b) Only caring about her own needs.
(c) Not getting enough sleep or food.
(d) The experience of suppressing her personal needs.

3. Spier's specialty is commonly known as what?
(a) Cognitivity.
(b) Reading and studying palms.
(c) Chiropractic.
(d) Dream interpretation.

4. Spier is a psychoanalyst who specializes in what?
(a) Cognitive therapy.
(b) Chronology.
(c) Chirology.
(d) Dreams.

5. Much of the discomfort among those living in the house stemmed from what?
(a) People's mistrust of the Jewish cook, Käthe.
(b) People's hatred of the Jewish cook, Käthe.
(c) People's hatred of the German cook, Käthe.
(d) People's mistrust of the German cook, Käthe.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Even before reaching Westerbork, Etty Hillesum's ___________ emerges as something independent and infinitely more powerful than her physical self.

4. The diary begins as a way for Etty to do what?

5. It is at this point that Etty Hillesum identifies her loneliness as a deep well that can only be filled by ______________.

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