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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. Spier's insights psychology came as the result of his own work with whom?
(a) Harry Stack Sullivan.
(b) Erich Fromm.
(c) Carl Gustav Jung.
(d) Jacques Lacan.

2. This Biblical quote is what?
(a) The most famous and most often quoted verses of all time.
(b) A very little-known quote.
(c) A very popular quote.
(d) A very rarely-mentioned quote.

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

4. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.
(a) Julius.
(b) S.
(c) Jules.
(d) Spier.

5. How do the letters themselves differ from Etty's diary entries?
(a) They primarily address her desire to be with others.
(b) They primarily represent her fear and depression.
(c) They primarily discuss her faith.
(d) They primarily address the desperation and immediacy of life in a concentration camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What at the camp was rampant?

2. Etty refuses to buckle under what?

3. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?

4. Hillesum lives in a house owned by a widower named _________________.

5. Does Etty accept her own feeling of bearing a burden?

(see the answer key)

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