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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Etty Hillesum's diary begins on what day?
(a) Sunday, May 9, 1941.
(b) Sunday, April 9, 1941.
(c) Sunday, March 9, 1941.
(d) Sunday, June 9, 1941.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?

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

3. Etty admits certain weaknesses, mostly having to do with what?

4. 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.

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

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