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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. Julius Spier dies of what in September of 1942?
(a) An accident.
(b) Natural causes.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A drug overdose.

2. Etty continues to insist that life is what?
(a) Dangerous and scary.
(b) A waste.
(c) Horrible and depressing.
(d) Valuable and beautiful.

3. Etty admits certain weaknesses, mostly having to do with what?
(a) Her fear.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her looks.
(d) Her appetites.

4. Etty sits in a corner of a heath on the edge of the camp. She watches a young German soldier, one of the camp guards, picking a bouquet of purple lupines. At that same moment, three thousand Jews are being transported out of Westerbork, bound for the extermination camps. This is the first time Etty mentions what?
(a) Mass murder.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Fear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty praises God when?

2. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

3. Hillesum writes that she tried to do what in the house?

4. Where is Etty when Spier dies?

5. Much of the discomfort among those living in the house stemmed from what?

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