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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. Etty notices that people have a way of doing what?
(a) Turning on each other.
(b) Unraveling psychologically.
(c) Putting their faith in God.
(d) Being stronger than at first expected.

2. Etty sits in a corner of a heath on the edge of the camp. She watches a young German soldier, one of the camp guards, picking a bouquet of purple lupines. At that same moment, three thousand Jews are being transported out of Westerbork, bound for the extermination camps. This is the first time Etty mentions what?
(a) Fear.
(b) Hopelessness.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Mass murder.

3. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.
(a) Mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
(b) Emotionally and spiritually.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Physically.

4. Etty's faith in God has grown exponentially. Is this off-putting to her?
(a) Yes, very.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, somewhat at first.
(d) Yes, but only later.

5. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty is cognizant of her _________________ as a Jew.

2. What does Etty believe the answer to number 100 would do?

3. 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?

4. What is Barneveld?

5. What do the letters chronicle?

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