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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Etty's favorite author?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Catherine Aird.
(c) Rainer Maria Rilke.
(d) Tapani, Bagge.

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

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

4. Etty admits that she is guilty of what?
(a) Misunderstanding.
(b) Greed.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Fear.

5. By September of 1941, it becomes clear from her diary entries that Etty Hillesum has begun to change _________________.
(a) Significantly and radically.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) Quite a bit.
(d) Very little.

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

7. Etty discloses that what life is more important?
(a) Her love life.
(b) Her internal life.
(c) Her external life.
(d) Her personal life.

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

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

10. This greed reminds Etty of who?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her lovers.
(d) Her mother.

11. Spier's specialty is commonly known as what?
(a) Cognitivity.
(b) Chiropractic.
(c) Reading and studying palms.
(d) Dream interpretation.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Even before reaching Westerbork, Etty Hillesum's ___________ emerges as something independent and infinitely more powerful than her physical self.

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

3. Etty feels a certain amount of ___________ toward Spier.

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

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

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