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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. What does Etty believe the answer to number 100 would do?
(a) Be selfish.
(b) Limit her accessibility.
(c) Be foolhardy.
(d) Be a waste of time.

2. How long have the Jews been persecuted?
(a) Four years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Six years.

3. Hillesum refers to a feeling of ______________ toward men as something worthy of resolution.
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Loathing.

4. How does this news leave Etty?
(a) Very ambivalent and yet somewhat affected at the same time.
(b) Somewhat ambivalent and yet deeply affected at the same time.
(c) Very ambivalent.
(d) Somewhat affected.

5. Etty admits that she is more the kind of person who wears her heart where?
(a) In her chest.
(b) In her head.
(c) On her coat.
(d) On her sleeve.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of a series of letters to Kormann at Westerbork, Etty tells her friend what about her flesh?

2. Etty's faith in God has grown exponentially. Is this off-putting to her?

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

4. Etty Hillesum references whose first letter to the Corinthians?

5. Etty interprets speaking openly to her friend as what?

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