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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 eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?
(a) Not getting enough sleep or food.
(b) The experience of suppressing her personal needs.
(c) Following the directions of the Germans.
(d) Only caring about her own needs.

2. By September of 1941, it becomes clear from her diary entries that Etty Hillesum has begun to change _________________.
(a) Very little.
(b) Significantly and radically.
(c) Quite a bit.
(d) Somewhat.

3. Etty begins preparing herself for life where?
(a) In Germany.
(b) In a small town.
(c) In a very small cell.
(d) In her own apartment.

4. Etty was a twenty-seven-year-old single woman living where, making her way in the city?
(a) Budapest.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Amsterdam.

5. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.
(a) Body.
(b) Soul.
(c) Mind.
(d) Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this exercise intended to do?

2. Before World War II arrived on her doorstep, Etty Hillesum's main concern was what?

3. Etty continues to insist that life is what?

4. Etty discloses that what life is more important?

5. How does this news leave Etty?

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