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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty realizes that it would be unfair as well as counterproductive to return the Germans' ____________ of her own.
(a) Hatred with love.
(b) Hatred with hatred.
(c) Fear with love.
(d) Love with hatred.

2. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?
(a) Not getting enough sleep or food.
(b) Only caring about her own needs.
(c) The experience of suppressing her personal needs.
(d) Following the directions of the Germans.

3. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. More than once, Etty Hillesum admits doing what?
(a) Ignoring all needs and meditating.
(b) Ignoring her own needs in favor of meeting the needs of others.
(c) Feeling hatred.
(d) Ignoring the needs of others in favor of her own needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What moment became the most important moment?

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

3. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?

4. By September of 1941, it becomes clear from her diary entries that Etty Hillesum has begun to change _________________.

5. Etty admits that she is more the kind of person who wears her heart where?

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