View a FREE sample

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. Each day, Etty's writings speak of her need to gain control over ______________.
(a) Other Jews.
(b) The Germans.
(c) Herself.
(d) Others.

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

3. Approximately one month later, Etty Hillesum entreats herself to allow ___________ rather than the opposite.
(a) Herself to pray for a better life.
(b) God to give her a better life.
(c) Life to embrace her.
(d) Herself to embrace life.

4. The diary begins as a way for Etty to do what?
(a) Make money.
(b) Become famous.
(c) Write down her ideas.
(d) Work through her feelings.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. It serves humanity better to allow a persecutor to witness another's ________________________.

2. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.

3. Does the widower's age concern Etty?

4. Etty becomes acutely aware of the individual's responsibility to engage in rigorous _________________.

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 244 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample