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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Etty decides to work her way through her negative feelings in hopes of what?
(a) Being forgiven by her family.
(b) Coming to a place of acceptance and forgiveness.
(c) Feeling confident without her family's love.
(d) Finding a new family.

2. Etty experiences a problem with overeating, which she attributes to what greed?
(a) To consume good food.
(b) To consume life and to know everything.
(c) To feel full.
(d) To have everything.

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

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

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

6. Etty admits certain weaknesses, mostly having to do with what?
(a) Her fear.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her appetites.
(d) Her looks.

7. More than once, Etty Hillesum admits doing what?
(a) Ignoring her own needs in favor of meeting the needs of others.
(b) Ignoring the needs of others in favor of her own needs.
(c) Feeling hatred.
(d) Ignoring all needs and meditating.

8. Etty admits not being interested in what?
(a) Writing.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Men.
(d) Living.

9. Etty engages herself in a discussion of the ________ as the predominant force in an individual's life.
(a) Soul.
(b) Mind.
(c) Heart.
(d) Body.

10. Etty Hillesum had devoted herself to honing her craft. What was her craft?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Painting.

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

12. Etty Hillesum was determined to grow ________________.
(a) Spiritually.
(b) Physically.
(c) Emotionally and spiritually.
(d) Mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

13. Spier's insights psychology came as the result of his own work with whom?
(a) Harry Stack Sullivan.
(b) Jacques Lacan.
(c) Carl Gustav Jung.
(d) Erich Fromm.

14. Hillesum writes that on Sunday, June 14, 1941 the German government begins to round up and ____________ the Jews.
(a) Kill.
(b) Centralize.
(c) Humiliate.
(d) Scold.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Does the widower's age concern Etty?

3. Esther ("Etty") Hillesum began writing a dairy in early __________ of 1941.

4. Putting everything on paper satisfied ________ of Etty's most innermost desires.

5. Hillesum is ___________; someone who is actively involved in examining the world and her perceptions thereof from the inside out rather than the other way around.

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