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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. [On July 15], 1942, Etty secures a position in what?
(a) The Cultural Affairs Department of the Jewish Council.
(b) A nice concentration camp.
(c) A home in America.
(d) A new school teaching Russian.

2. Etty talks about the importance of living where?
(a) In Amsterdam.
(b) In the present.
(c) In the future.
(d) In the past.

3. Etty comes to love what?
(a) The world at large.
(b) Her family.
(c) Herself.
(d) The Germans.

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

5. In one of a series of letters to Kormann at Westerbork, Etty tells her friend what about her flesh?
(a) She seems incapable of keeping up with the demands of living and working at a concentration camp.
(b) She wants to crawl out of her flesh and run away.
(c) It is beginning to sag due to the lack of nutrients she receives.
(d) It is crawling with insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. Max ("Osias") Kormann was what to Ettay?

2. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.

3. The camp is severely over-crowded and all of the housing units look the same. So, is there any evidence of varying life?

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

5. At the concentration camp, is there a distinction made between one social class and another?

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