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

2. 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 German cook, Käthe.
(c) People's hatred of the Jewish cook, Käthe.
(d) People's mistrust of the German cook, Käthe.

3. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?
(a) To the Warsaw ghetto.
(b) To Sachsenhausen.
(c) To Veluwe.
(d) To Belzec.

4. Etty acknowledges _____________ that is inherent in all human beings.
(a) The loneliness.
(b) The love.
(c) The hatred.
(d) The fear.

5. Etty returns to a sincere desire to pay more attention to her inner life as a way of bringing about what?
(a) Peace.
(b) External change.
(c) Internal change.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.

2. Etty admits that she is more the kind of person who wears her heart where?

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

4. Etty was a twenty-seven-year-old single woman living where, making her way in the city?

5. This person was the founder of what?

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