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Etty Hillesum
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty admits certain weaknesses, mostly having to do with what?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her appetites.
(c) Her looks.
(d) Her fear.

2. Etty returns to a sincere desire to pay more attention to her inner life as a way of bringing about what?
(a) Internal change.
(b) External change.
(c) Peace.
(d) Love.

3. 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) Regrouping.
(b) Organizing.
(c) Controlling.
(d) Centralize.

4. Etty talks about the importance of living where?
(a) In the future.
(b) In the past.
(c) In the present.
(d) In Amsterdam.

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

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

7. Hillesum lives in a house owned by a widower named _________________.
(a) Handel Wagner.
(b) Heinz Wiener.
(c) Hansel Wolff.
(d) Han Wegerif.

8. Aside from being solely therapeutic, what does this exercise awaken in Etty?
(a) Loving feelings.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Sexual feelings.

9. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?
(a) To Belzec.
(b) To Veluwe.
(c) To Sachsenhausen.
(d) To the Warsaw ghetto.

10. Etty becomes acutely aware of the individual's responsibility to engage in rigorous _________________.
(a) Mental purging.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Self-denial.
(d) Self-examination.

11. As part of her therapy, Etty and Spier engage in what?
(a) A kind of arguing.
(b) A kind of wrestling.
(c) A kind of dancing.
(d) A kind of yelling.

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

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

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

15. The diary begins as a way for Etty to do what?
(a) Work through her feelings.
(b) Write down her ideas.
(c) Become famous.
(d) Make money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

2. Early in her writings, Etty says that she finds Spier intriguing and she is impressed with what?

3. Spier is a psychoanalyst who specializes in what?

4. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.

5. Etty Hillesum had devoted herself to honing her craft. What was her craft?

(see the answer keys)

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