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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. Hillesum holds fast to what belief?
(a) Her life is a time of significant beginnings and she claims this thought as her one reality.
(b) Her life is of no importance to her or anyone else.
(c) Her life has become a waste.
(d) Her life is about to come to an end.

2. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?
(a) Etty's eating problem.
(b) Etty's diary.
(c) Etty's home.
(d) Etty's clothing.

3. How long did Kormann and Etty's bond last?
(a) Until Kormann's death.
(b) Until Etty's transportation to the camp.
(c) Until Kormann's transportation to Auschwitz.
(d) Until Etty's death.

4. Etty spent a good deal of time how?
(a) In prayer.
(b) Teaching.
(c) In fear.
(d) Being ill.

5. Etty is cognizant of her _________________ as a Jew.
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Faith.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty admits to being ________________ overwhelmed.

2. What is this exercise intended to do?

3. What happens to Mischa's application for transfer to Barneveld?

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

5. What does Etty admit to her friend Ru?

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