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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May 18, 1942 through October 12, 1942 (Pages 133 - 231).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty refuses to buckle under what?
(a) Under the stress of living under German occupation.
(b) Under the pressure of doing what is right for others.
(c) Under the weight of many physical burdens.
(d) Under the weight of strong emotion.

2. [On July 15], 1942, Etty secures a position in what?
(a) The Cultural Affairs Department of the Jewish Council.
(b) A home in America.
(c) A nice concentration camp.
(d) A new school teaching Russian.

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

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

5. What does Etty admit to her friend Ru?
(a) An unshakable faith in God is the main strength of her life.
(b) She wishes she had attempted to escape.
(c) Her only hope now is to save her family.
(d) She is afraid of what is to come.

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually leads Hillesum down the path of physical isolation and often results in illness of one sort or another?

2. What becomes Etty Hillesum's main focus?

3. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.

4. Etty acknowledges _____________ that is inherent in all human beings.

5. This greed reminds Etty of who?

(see the answer key)

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