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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. After Spier's death, Etty's level of empathy does what?
(a) Falls.
(b) Fluctuates.
(c) Rises.
(d) Stays the same.

2. What else does Etty come to love?
(a) Being on the Jewish Council.
(b) The idea of freedom.
(c) The concentration camp.
(d) The beauty she sees outside her window and in her relationships.

3. Early in her writings, Etty says that she finds Spier intriguing and she is impressed with what?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His looks.
(c) His beliefs.
(d) His sensuality and power.

4. With what idea does Etty deal?
(a) The idea of one's own mortality.
(b) The idea of willingly, fearlessly bearing one's own burdens and the burdens of those in one's community.
(c) The idea of having faith in something that you cannot see.
(d) The idea of loving those who hate you.

5. How is Etty at the time Spier dies?
(a) She is content.
(b) She is busy.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She is sad.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. Etty's devotion to the higher purpose of carrying out God's will and design for her life becomes what?

4. Etty admits that she is guilty of what?

5. Even before reaching Westerbork, Etty Hillesum's ___________ emerges as something independent and infinitely more powerful than her physical self.

(see the answer key)

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