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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. Displaced from their homes and familiar neighborhoods, these camp citizens experience a feeling of overwhelm which often does what?
(a) Pushes them to attempt escape.
(b) Pushes them to the breaking point.
(c) Pushes them to have hope.
(d) Pushes them to have faith.

2. Etty's devotion to the higher purpose of carrying out God's will and design for her life becomes what?
(a) Less solid.
(b) Destroyed
(c) More solid.
(d) Lost.

3. Etty decides to work her way through her negative feelings in hopes of what?
(a) Finding a new family.
(b) Coming to a place of acceptance and forgiveness.
(c) Feeling confident without her family's love.
(d) Being forgiven by her family.

4. The conversations Etty has with the others at Westerbork give her what?
(a) A new sense of dread.
(b) A stronger faith in God.
(c) A clearer idea of what the Jews experienced.
(d) Hope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Etty Hillesum die?

2. Etty's relationship with her father is somewhat __________.

3. In another letter (this one to her good friend Maria Tuinzing), Etty talks about sharing living quarters with whom?

4. Other barracks could give what impression?

5. Etty refuses to buckle under what?

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