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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after he married Gluckel did Hirz Levi's business crash?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Eight months.

2. From whom did Chayim secure a passport and bodyguard in Book IV?
(a) General Buditz.
(b) General Stadthagen.
(c) General Meitz.
(d) General Stein.

3. Who was Elias' mother?
(a) Gluckel.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Esther.
(d) Hannah.

4. Who was the second money-changer in Altona to disappear?
(a) Samuel Levy.
(b) Aaron ben Moses.
(c) Abraham Metz.
(d) Joseph Lifshitz.

5. On what date was Chayim Hameln laid to rest?
(a) March 23.
(b) January 16.
(c) January 31.
(d) July 7.

6. What son was Gluckel nursing when she and Chayim visited his parents in Book IV?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Michael.
(d) Mordecai.

7. Where did Gluckel take Esther and Nathan to resolve their betrothal in Book V?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Amsterdam.

8. Which of the five Jews warned by the King of France remained in Lorraine?
(a) Samuel and Moses.
(b) Isai and Jacob.
(c) Isai and Chayim.
(d) Jacob and Moses.

9. Where did Samuel's daughter live in Book VII?
(a) Hanover.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Bamburg.

10. For how long did the Talmud instructor agree to teach and board Joseph in Book V?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Four years.
(d) Three years.

11. From where did the King of France forbid the import or export of money in Book VII?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Lorraine.
(d) Britain.

12. Who was Gluckel praying with when Chayim died?
(a) Feibisch Levi.
(b) Moshe Lifishitz.
(c) Joseph Hamil.
(d) Abraham Levi.

13. Where did Gluckel's son Joseph want to study the Talmud?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) Lissa.

14. Whose house did Gluckel move into when Isai Willstadt returned to Metz?
(a) Moshe Stevens'.
(b) Jacob Marburg's.
(c) Abraham Levy's.
(d) Moses Hameln's.

15. When did Moses visit Gluckel and see she had to climb many stairs to her room?
(a) 1700.
(b) 1715.
(c) 1725.
(d) 1720.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had it been since Gluckel and Chayim had seen Chayim's parents in Book IV?

2. What was the agreed dowry for Elias' betrothal?

3. Who hosted the inn where Gluckel stayed with during her son Moses' wedding?

4. What did the burgher have hidden in his ship in Gluckel's story in Book IV?

5. Who accompanied Gluckel to Frankfort in Book VI?

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