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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Mata's birth was the plague rumored in Hamburg?
(a) A month.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) A year.

2. What "provides all we need to find and learn the journey through this world to the next," according to Gluckel in her introduction to the memoirs?
(a) The Torah.
(b) God.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Our parents.

3. What did the father bird do to the first bird he was taking across the stream in Gluckel's introduction to her memoirs?
(a) Kissed it.
(b) Abandoned it.
(c) Drowned it.
(d) Saved it.

4. Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln takes place beginning in what year?
(a) 1646.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1640.
(d) 1635.

5. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel recommended to her children that they be honest with both Jews and Gentiles in what?
(a) Money and goods.
(b) Religion.
(c) All matters.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Gluckel's maternal grandfather from?

2. Who was recommended to Chayim as a Talmud scholar to arbitrate for him in Hildesheim?

3. Gluckel's first husband came from a family of how many children?

4. Who was the richest Altona Jew?

5. Under whose arm did Gluckel find a sore that was thought to be the plague?

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