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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gluckel's maternal grandfather die?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Plague.
(c) Fire.
(d) Flood.

2. Where did Loeb Hamburger live?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

4. Who did Yenta marry after the death of her husband?
(a) Cleves.
(b) Leffmann.
(c) Gans.
(d) Hameln.

5. Who was expelled from Helmstadt for being a Jew in Book IV?
(a) Reb Moses.
(b) Joseph Hameln.
(c) Moshe Stadthagen.
(d) Reb Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Gluckel bear?

2. Who fell upon hard times in Poland who was helped by Joseph until being enticed by unfulfilled promises in Hameln?

3. How old was Mata when she died?

4. What son was Gluckel nursing when she and Chayim visited his parents in Book IV?

5. 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?

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