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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Love with hatred.
(d) Fear with love.

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

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

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

8. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.
(a) Julius.
(b) Jules.
(c) Spier.
(d) S.

9. She begins each day full of resolve to become a better, more skilled _____________.
(a) Teacher.
(b) Writer.
(c) Dancer.
(d) Singer.

10. Etty returns to a sincere desire to pay more attention to her inner life as a way of bringing about what?
(a) Peace.
(b) External change.
(c) Love.
(d) Internal change.

11. Does Etty have a strong relationship with her mother?
(a) Yes.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Only early on.
(d) No.

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

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

14. Approximately one month later, Etty Hillesum entreats herself to allow ___________ rather than the opposite.
(a) Herself to embrace life.
(b) Life to embrace her.
(c) Herself to pray for a better life.
(d) God to give her a better life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?

2. Spier is a psychoanalyst who specializes in what?

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

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

5. This greed reminds Etty of who?

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