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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty is hyper-alert, hyper-conscious of what?
(a) What is taking place all around her.
(b) What is taking place in her heart.
(c) Her actions.
(d) The actions of the other Jews.

2. Does Etty rise above her bitterness about the truth of the Jews' plight in Holland?
(a) Only much later.
(b) Only at first.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

3. Etty begins preparing herself for life where?
(a) In a very small cell.
(b) In a small town.
(c) In her own apartment.
(d) In Germany.

4. When does Etty not allow her faith to lapse?
(a) At such times of boredom and uselessness.
(b) At such a time of terror and abject fear.
(c) At such times of happiness and contentedness.
(d) At such times of anger.

5. It serves humanity better to allow a persecutor to witness another's ________________________.
(a) "Hatred and anger."
(b) "Fear and anxiety."
(c) "Sadness and utter defenselessness."
(d) "Strength and resilience."

6. Etty remains stalwart in what?
(a) Her refusal to place blame on the Germans.
(b) Her refusal to take a negative view of life.
(c) Her refusal to take the blame for her guilt.
(d) Her refusal to give up Spier.

7. Etty writes, "Ultimately, what matters most is to __________________."
(a) Be content with what you have.
(b) Have faith in life.
(c) Bear the pain to cope with (what is going on around her).
(d) Pray for salvation.

8. After Spier's death, Etty's level of empathy does what?
(a) Stays the same.
(b) Fluctuates.
(c) Falls.
(d) Rises.

9. Why does Etty feel guilty about her life, compared to others?
(a) She is much more prepared for her future than others.
(b) Others are forced to make due with considerably less than her.
(c) She has not given to others as much as she would like.
(d) Others harbor much more fear in their hearts.

10. What else does she address?
(a) The utility of personal and communal participation in suffering without preconception.
(b) The utility of personal and communal participation in having faith without preconception.
(c) The utility of personal and communal participation in having hope without preconception.
(d) The utility of personal and communal participation in loving without preconception.

11. Etty's motivations have become unambiguously ______________.
(a) Selfish.
(b) Strange.
(c) Altruistic.
(d) Difficult to understand.

12. Etty subsequently learns that Jews in Deventer are no longer allowed to own what?
(a) Businesses.
(b) Bicycles.
(c) Cars.
(d) Homes.

13. Julius Spier dies of what in September of 1942?
(a) An accident.
(b) Natural causes.
(c) A drug overdose.
(d) Suicide.

14. When does Spier die?
(a) In September of 1942.
(b) In January of 1942.
(c) In November of 1942.
(d) In April of 1942.

15. Etty praises God when?
(a) At night.
(b) In the morning.
(c) At times of mental anguish.
(d) At all times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Given Etty's propensity toward the ascetic life, what might she think of all the mental exercises in which she participates?

2. Hillesum resigns herself to what fact?

3. Etty declares, "Death is _________________."

4. Approximately one week later, Etty Hillesum volunteers to do what?

5. Etty reaches a place of being unwilling to put up what?

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