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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Gluckel's second marriage set to take place?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Levi.
(d) Metz.

3. Who killed Mordecai?
(a) A poacher.
(b) A farmer.
(c) His brother.
(d) His bride.

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

5. Who does Gluckel write lived in Amsterdam with 20,000 Reichsthalers in Book III?
(a) Chayim Hameln.
(b) Mordecai Cohen.
(c) Abraham Lietz.
(d) Elias Ries.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom did Chayim secure a passport and bodyguard in Book IV?

2. With whom did Gluckel's family form a partnership only to dissolve it a year later because he did not put up the money agreed upon?

3. How old was Gluckel when she married her second husband?

4. Where did Loeb Hamburger live?

5. Mordecai was killed between Hanover and where?

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