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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. 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.
(a) Centralize.
(b) Controlling.
(c) Organizing.
(d) Regrouping.

2. Etty is hyper-alert, hyper-conscious of what?
(a) What is taking place all around her.
(b) The actions of the other Jews.
(c) What is taking place in her heart.
(d) Her actions.

3. In another letter (this one to her good friend Maria Tuinzing), Etty talks about sharing living quarters with whom?
(a) Several children.
(b) Several young women.
(c) Several other women.
(d) Several elderly women.

4. Etty obliges herself to the preservation and dissemination of what?
(a) Her feelings, assumptions, and beliefs.
(b) Her thoughts, actions, and obligations.
(c) Her thoughts and actions.
(d) Her thoughts, feelings, and obligations.

5. Hillesum first meets Julius Spier, who is sometimes simply referred to as __________ in the diary.
(a) Julius.
(b) Spier.
(c) Jules.
(d) S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Etty feels guilt about living how?

2. Etty writes, "Ultimately, what matters most is to __________________."

3. Etty was a twenty-seven-year-old single woman living where, making her way in the city?

4. This act of verbalizing to another person is what for Etty?

5. [On July 15], 1942, Etty secures a position in what?

(see the answer key)

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