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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. As part of her therapy, Etty and Spier engage in what?
(a) A kind of wrestling.
(b) A kind of dancing.
(c) A kind of yelling.
(d) A kind of arguing.

2. Etty interprets speaking openly to her friend as what?
(a) An act of freedom.
(b) An act of stupidity.
(c) An act of bravery.
(d) An act of selfishness.

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

4. Hillesum arrives at Westerbork in the _____________ of 1942.
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

5. Does Etty accept her own feeling of bearing a burden?
(a) Yes, at first.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, somewhat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have the Jews been persecuted?

2. With what idea does Etty deal?

3. Etty talks about the importance of living where?

4. With what does this letter to the Corinthians deal?

5. This is the word used by the Germans to refer to the process by which large numbers of Jews were captured from their homes and off the streets and then put into ghettos or camps.

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