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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom did Gluckel receive secular education?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her cousins.
(d) Her aunt.

2. Under whose rule did the Jews settle in Altona?
(a) The King of France.
(b) The King of Germany.
(c) The King of Denmark.
(d) The King of Sweden.

3. In what year did Gluckel complete her diaries?
(a) 1716.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1720.
(d) 1719.

4. Who was the richest Altona Jew?
(a) Chayim Hameln.
(b) Chayim Furst.
(c) Alexander Hurst.
(d) Joseph Hameln.

5. When did Gluckel's family return to Hameln?
(a) 1680.
(b) 1672.
(c) 1658.
(d) 1662.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first published Gluckel's memoirs in 1896?

2. What did the father bird do to the first bird he was taking across the stream in Gluckel's introduction to her memoirs?

3. How old was Gluckel when she was betrothed?

4. 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?

5. When was Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln published in its current edition?

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