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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hopeful.
(b) A finder.
(c) A seeker.
(d) A lover.

2. Etty admonishes herself to let go of what things?
(a) Nothing.
(b) All things.
(c) Things inside herself.
(d) Things outside of herself.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. 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) Controlling.
(c) Organizing.
(d) Centralize.

8. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.
(a) Mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
(b) Physically.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Emotionally and spiritually.

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

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

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

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

13. Spier is a psychoanalyst who specializes in what?
(a) Cognitive therapy.
(b) Chirology.
(c) Chronology.
(d) Dreams.

14. 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.

15. What is this exercise intended to do?
(a) Relieve her stress and aggression.
(b) Relieve fear.
(c) Relieve fear and stress.
(d) Learn what mental illness she has.

Short Answer Questions

1. Spier's insights psychology came as the result of his own work with whom?

2. Approximately one month later, Etty Hillesum entreats herself to allow ___________ rather than the opposite.

3. Hillesum writes that she tried to do what in the house?

4. Etty's day-to-day life centers around her work as what?

5. Around this time, Etty addresses the question of __________, specifically talking about the Germans.

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