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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty's day-to-day life centers around her work as what?
(a) An English teacher.
(b) A dance teacher.
(c) An art teacher.
(d) A Russian teacher.

2. Etty was a twenty-seven-year-old single woman living where, making her way in the city?
(a) Budapest.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Amsterdam.

3. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?
(a) Saving the Jews.
(b) Herself.
(c) Spiritual growth.
(d) Her writing.

4. Etty feels a certain amount of ___________ toward Spier.
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Anxiety.

5. Etty remarks that her lovers have all felt like what?
(a) Bosses.
(b) Friends.
(c) Strangers.
(d) Husbands.

6. Esther ("Etty") Hillesum began writing a dairy in early __________ of 1941.
(a) June.
(b) April
(c) March.
(d) May.

7. Even before reaching Westerbork, Etty Hillesum's ___________ emerges as something independent and infinitely more powerful than her physical self.
(a) Psyche.
(b) Mind.
(c) Soul.
(d) Heart.

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

9. Hillesum refers to a feeling of ______________ toward men as something worthy of resolution.
(a) Loathing.
(b) Ambivalence.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Anxiety.

10. Etty Hillesum had devoted herself to honing her craft. What was her craft?
(a) Writing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

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

12. This person was the founder of what?
(a) Developmental psychology.
(b) Analytical psychology.
(c) Clinical psychology.
(d) Experimental psychology.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty decides to work her way through her negative feelings in hopes of what?

2. Etty talks about the importance of living where?

3. Before World War II arrived on her doorstep, Etty Hillesum's main concern was what?

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

5. Does the widower's age concern Etty?

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