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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does Etty come to love?
(a) The idea of freedom.
(b) The beauty she sees outside her window and in her relationships.
(c) Being on the Jewish Council.
(d) The concentration camp.

2. Etty continues to insist that life is what?
(a) Horrible and depressing.
(b) Dangerous and scary.
(c) A waste.
(d) Valuable and beautiful.

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

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

5. Does Etty feel it is necessary to purge her personality of everything possible which does not support her new way of being in the world?
(a) No, but she considers this.
(b) Yes, but only at first.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

6. With what idea does Etty deal?
(a) The idea of willingly, fearlessly bearing one's own burdens and the burdens of those in one's community.
(b) The idea of loving those who hate you.
(c) The idea of one's own mortality.
(d) The idea of having faith in something that you cannot see.

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

8. Etty comes to accept and value her role as what?
(a) Warrior.
(b) Helper.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Witness.

9. Etty prefers to "be there for everyone" rather than do what?
(a) Be there for no one.
(b) Be there for only her family.
(c) Be there for only herself.
(d) Marry.

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

11. What does Etty do after Spier's death?
(a) She writes his family a long letter.
(b) She prays for him.
(c) She writes Spier a long letter.
(d) She tries to forget about him.

12. Etty finally has a glimpse of her place where?
(a) In the larger historical picture.
(b) In Amsterdam.
(c) In society.
(d) In a concentration camp.

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

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

15. Etty comes to love what?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her family.
(c) The world at large.
(d) The Germans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Etty accept her own feeling of bearing a burden?

2. Etty's faith in God has grown exponentially. Is this off-putting to her?

3. Etty's reliance is completely on who?

4. Is Etty aware of the threat that the Germans pose?

5. Etty no longer concerns herself with the need to appear how?

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