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

2. Where do the people sleep in bunk beds stacked three-high?
(a) In the apartments.
(b) In the houses.
(c) In the huts.
(d) In the barracks.

3. What does Etty admit to her friend Ru?
(a) An unshakable faith in God is the main strength of her life.
(b) She is afraid of what is to come.
(c) She wishes she had attempted to escape.
(d) Her only hope now is to save her family.

4. Around this time, Etty addresses the question of __________, specifically talking about the Germans.
(a) Love.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Ignorance.

5. Hillesum writes that she tried to do what in the house?
(a) Keep the peace.
(b) Take control.
(c) Stand up for the Jews.
(d) Organize a revolt.

Short Answer Questions

1. More than once, Etty Hillesum admits doing what?

2. Upon her arrival at the camp, Etty tells the sisters of whom?

3. What is Barneveld?

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

5. Etty returns to a sincere desire to pay more attention to her inner life as a way of bringing about what?

(see the answer key)

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