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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 seeker.
(c) A lover.
(d) A finder.

7. Etty admits not being interested in what?
(a) Living.
(b) Men.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Writing.

8. Etty Hillesum had devoted herself to honing her craft. What was her craft?
(a) Writing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Dancing.

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

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

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

12. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.
(a) Mind.
(b) Soul.
(c) Heart.
(d) Body.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Spier's specialty is commonly known as what?

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

3. What is this exercise intended to do?

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

5. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?

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