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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aside from being solely therapeutic, what does this exercise awaken in Etty?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Loving feelings.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Sexual feelings.

2. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?
(a) Saving the Jews.
(b) Herself.
(c) Spiritual growth.
(d) Her writing.

3. Spier's specialty is commonly known as what?
(a) Cognitivity.
(b) Reading and studying palms.
(c) Chiropractic.
(d) Dream interpretation.

4. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?
(a) Only caring about her own needs.
(b) Following the directions of the Germans.
(c) The experience of suppressing her personal needs.
(d) Not getting enough sleep or food.

5. Etty returns to a sincere desire to pay more attention to her inner life as a way of bringing about what?
(a) Love.
(b) External change.
(c) Internal change.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty's relationship with her father is somewhat __________.

2. What serves as a symbol of her materialism?

3. Etty becomes acutely aware of the individual's responsibility to engage in rigorous _________________.

4. In February of 1942, several professors and other acquaintances of Etty's are sent where as prisoners of the Nazis?

5. Etty realizes that it would be unfair as well as counterproductive to return the Germans' ____________ of her own.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Etty feel about men? How does she explain this?

2. Over what does Etty want to gain control? What does she resolve to do every day?

3. Why did Etty begin this diary?

4. Describe the men for whom Etty has feelings.

5. What does Etty say about the topic of hatred?

6. Of what does Etty admit she is guilty? How does this then lead to a spiritual discussion?

7. What foreshadowing of Etty's future occurs? How does it seem she is preparing herself for this future?

8. How does Etty's feelings towards her family begin to change?

9. What is happening to the Jews by June of 1941?

10. What problem does Etty experience? Why? How does this lead to a discussion of Etty's family?

(see the answer keys)

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