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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 refuses to blame who for allowing the atrocities against the Jews (and all of humanity) to continue?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The Germans.
(c) God.
(d) The United States.

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

3. What else does she address?
(a) The utility of personal and communal participation in having hope without preconception.
(b) The utility of personal and communal participation in having faith without preconception.
(c) The utility of personal and communal participation in suffering without preconception.
(d) The utility of personal and communal participation in loving without preconception.

4. What is Barneveld?
(a) A ghetto.
(b) An extermination camp.
(c) A special camp intended to house creative people.
(d) A town that is not yet occupied by German forces.

5. Spier's insights psychology came as the result of his own work with whom?
(a) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Carl Gustav Jung.
(c) Harry Stack Sullivan.
(d) Erich Fromm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty notices that people have a way of doing what?

2. Etty begins preparing herself for life where?

3. Max ("Osias") Kormann was what to Ettay?

4. This Biblical quote is what?

5. Does Etty feel it is necessary to purge her personality of everything possible which does not support her new way of being in the world?

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