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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May 18, 1942 through October 12, 1942 (Pages 133 - 231).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Etty feel it is necessary to purge her personality of everything possible which does not support her new way of being in the world?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, but she considers this.
(d) Yes, but only at first.

2. It serves humanity better to allow a persecutor to witness another's ________________________.
(a) "Hatred and anger."
(b) "Strength and resilience."
(c) "Fear and anxiety."
(d) "Sadness and utter defenselessness."

3. Etty admits that she is guilty of what?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Greed.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Fear.

4. Etty realizes that it would be unfair as well as counterproductive to return the Germans' ____________ of her own.
(a) Fear with love.
(b) Love with hatred.
(c) Hatred with hatred.
(d) Hatred with love.

5. What does Etty admit to her friend Ru?
(a) An unshakable faith in God is the main strength of her life.
(b) She is afraid of what is to come.
(c) Her only hope now is to save her family.
(d) She wishes she had attempted to escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hillesum resigns herself to what fact?

2. [On July 15], 1942, Etty secures a position in what?

3. With what idea does Etty deal?

4. Etty experiences a problem with overeating, which she attributes to what greed?

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

(see the answer key)

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