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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. What else does she address?
(a) The utility of personal and communal participation in suffering without preconception.
(b) The utility of personal and communal participation in having hope without preconception.
(c) The utility of personal and communal participation in loving without preconception.
(d) The utility of personal and communal participation in having faith without preconception.

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

3. Why does Etty feel guilty about her life, compared to others?
(a) She is much more prepared for her future than others.
(b) Others harbor much more fear in their hearts.
(c) She has not given to others as much as she would like.
(d) Others are forced to make due with considerably less than her.

4. Etty remarks that some barracks can make one feel how?
(a) As though one were visiting a slum.
(b) As though one is back in Amsterdam.
(c) As though one is in heaven.
(d) As though one is in prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty admits not being interested in what?

2. She begins each day full of resolve to become a better, more skilled _____________.

3. _____________ offer more privacy.

4. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.

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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