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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hillesum resigns herself to what fact?
(a) She will not live for much longer.
(b) Her faith will become more useful as time goes on.
(c) Of viewing her commitment to life as somehow contributing to the lives of others.
(d) Her commitment to herself is also a commitment to her family.

2. Etty feels guilt about living how?
(a) As a Christian.
(b) In the city.
(c) As a sinner.
(d) So abundantly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Etty's devotion to the higher purpose of carrying out God's will and design for her life becomes what?
(a) More solid.
(b) Less solid.
(c) Destroyed
(d) Lost.

10. Etty writes (what matters most is) "to keep a small corner of ___________ unsullied, come what may."
(a) One's heart.
(b) One's room.
(c) One's soul.
(d) One's mind.

11. Etty reminds herself to channel her urges into what?
(a) Protecting her family.
(b) Her teaching.
(c) Saving her own life.
(d) Some more far-reaching acts in service to the community of mankind.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Etty rise above her bitterness about the truth of the Jews' plight in Holland?

2. Etty prefers to "be there for everyone" rather than do what?

3. Where is Etty when Spier dies?

4. What does Etty believe the answer to number 100 would do?

5. Etty writes, "Ultimately, what matters most is to __________________."

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