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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty later grasps the magnitude of her choice not to do what?
(a) Go into hiding or attempt to "save" herself in any way.
(b) Move out of the house.
(c) Admit she is a Jew.
(d) Save her family.

2. How is Etty at the time Spier dies?
(a) She is content.
(b) She is busy.
(c) She is sad.
(d) She is ill.

3. Etty obliges herself to the preservation and dissemination of what?
(a) Her feelings, assumptions, and beliefs.
(b) Her thoughts, actions, and obligations.
(c) Her thoughts and actions.
(d) Her thoughts, feelings, and obligations.

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

5. At the time of Spier's death, why is Etty not at Westerbork?
(a) She is escaping to America.
(b) She is on leave from her duties at Westerbork.
(c) She is being transported to Auschwitz.
(d) She is very ill.

6. Approximately one week later, Etty Hillesum volunteers to do what?
(a) Be deported to Westerbork.
(b) Be deported to Auschwitz.
(c) Be a teacher.
(d) Be sent to America.

7. This act of verbalizing to another person is what for Etty?
(a) Revelatory.
(b) Uncomfortable.
(c) Strange.
(d) Embarrassing.

8. Etty no longer concerns herself with the need to appear how?
(a) Attractive.
(b) Strong on the outside.
(c) Happy.
(d) Non-Jewish.

9. Etty is cognizant of her _________________ as a Jew.
(a) Power.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Faith.

10. Etty refuses to allow what to lapse?
(a) Her faith in God.
(b) Her passport.
(c) Her driver's license.
(d) Her love for Spier.

11. Etty knows that it is simply a matter of time before what happens to her?
(a) She is apprehended and transferred to a camp of some sort.
(b) She attempts to escape.
(c) She is saved.
(d) She is allowed to leave.

12. HIllesum refuses to blame who for allowing the atrocities against the Jews (and all of humanity) to continue?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The Germans.
(c) God.
(d) The United States.

13. Where does Etty live?
(a) In an inn.
(b) In a Jewish household.
(c) In a non-Jewish household.
(d) In an apartment.

14. [On July 15], 1942, Etty secures a position in what?
(a) The Cultural Affairs Department of the Jewish Council.
(b) A nice concentration camp.
(c) A new school teaching Russian.
(d) A home in America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty refuses to buckle under what?

2. Etty's motivations have become unambiguously ______________.

3. Etty reminds herself to channel her urges into what?

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

5. HIllesum decides that she would rather not do what?

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