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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Etty believe the answer to number 100 would do?
(a) Be a waste of time.
(b) Limit her accessibility.
(c) Be selfish.
(d) Be foolhardy.

2. HIllesum decides that she would rather not do what?
(a) Marry Julius Spier.
(b) Believe in God.
(c) Move to a concentration camp.
(d) Be a Jew.

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

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

5. Etty reaches a place of being unwilling to put up what?
(a) A front for the benefit of others.
(b) A fight.
(c) A protest.
(d) A barrier against the Germans.

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Etty do what she does after Spier's death?
(a) In order to make him understand her feelings.
(b) In order to forget him.
(c) In order to give herself a sense of completion with their relationship.
(d) In order to understand her own feelings.

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

12. 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 having hope without preconception.
(c) The utility of personal and communal participation in suffering without preconception.
(d) The utility of personal and communal participation in loving without preconception.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Etty's reliance is completely on who?

3. Why does Etty feel guilty about her life, compared to others?

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

5. At the time of Spier's death, why is Etty not at Westerbork?

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