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

2. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.
(a) S.
(b) Julius.
(c) Spier.
(d) Jules.

3. Etty Hillesum's diary begins on what day?
(a) Sunday, March 9, 1941.
(b) Sunday, May 9, 1941.
(c) Sunday, April 9, 1941.
(d) Sunday, June 9, 1941.

4. Spier is a psychoanalyst who specializes in what?
(a) Chirology.
(b) Chronology.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Cognitive therapy.

5. What is the now-infamous extermination camp in Poland?
(a) Auschwitz-Burkenau.
(b) Buchenwald.
(c) Chelmno.
(d) Dachau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Continuing her description of life at Westerbork, Etty's thoughts turn to whom?

2. When does Etty not allow her faith to lapse?

3. It is at this point that Etty Hillesum identifies her loneliness as a deep well that can only be filled by ______________.

4. Etty describes in some detail what?

5. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

(see the answer key)

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