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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What moment became the most important moment?
(a) The future.
(b) The moment she became a Christian.
(c) The past.
(d) The present.

2. This is the word used by the Germans to refer to the process by which large numbers of Jews were captured from their homes and off the streets and then put into ghettos or camps.
(a) Organizing.
(b) Regrouping.
(c) Centralize.
(d) Controlling.

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

4. Who encouraged Julius Spier to go into a practice and take on clients?
(a) Jung.
(b) Fromm.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Sullivan.

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

6. Hillesum writes that on Sunday, June 14, 1941 the German government begins to round up and ____________ the Jews.
(a) Humiliate.
(b) Kill.
(c) Centralize.
(d) Scold.

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

8. Etty decides to work her way through her negative feelings in hopes of what?
(a) Finding a new family.
(b) Coming to a place of acceptance and forgiveness.
(c) Being forgiven by her family.
(d) Feeling confident without her family's love.

9. Etty admits not being interested in what?
(a) Men.
(b) Writing.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Living.

10. Etty experiences a problem with overeating, which she attributes to what greed?
(a) To feel full.
(b) To consume good food.
(c) To consume life and to know everything.
(d) To have everything.

11. Etty's relationship with her father is somewhat __________.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Loving.
(c) Strained.
(d) Annoying.

12. Hillesum is ___________; someone who is actively involved in examining the world and her perceptions thereof from the inside out rather than the other way around.
(a) A lover.
(b) A hopeful.
(c) A seeker.
(d) A finder.

13. Etty admits that she is more the kind of person who wears her heart where?
(a) On her sleeve.
(b) On her coat.
(c) In her chest.
(d) In her head.

14. Etty acknowledges _____________ that is inherent in all human beings.
(a) The fear.
(b) The hatred.
(c) The love.
(d) The loneliness.

15. Does the widower's age concern Etty?
(a) No.
(b) Not usually.
(c) Yes.
(d) Sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Much of the discomfort among those living in the house stemmed from what?

2. Hillesum lives in a house owned by a widower named _________________.

3. Spier's specialty is commonly known as what?

4. Etty discloses that what life is more important?

5. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?

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