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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters from Westerbork (Pages 235 - 365).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Etty praises God when?
(a) At all times.
(b) In the morning.
(c) At times of mental anguish.
(d) At night.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Etty do what she does after Spier's death?

2. The camp is severely over-crowded and all of the housing units look the same. So, is there any evidence of varying life?

3. What is the now-infamous extermination camp in Poland?

4. How many men, women, and children are interned at Westerbork?

5. Hillesum lives in a house owned by a widower named _________________.

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