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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gluckel's first husband came from a family of how many children?
(a) 13.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

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

4. What was the name of Gluckel's father?
(a) Joseph Hameln.
(b) Chayim Hameln.
(c) Lob Pinkerle.
(d) Joseph Pinkerle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the vocation of Gluckel's second husband?

2. In what language were the diaries originally written?

3. What was the name of Gluckel's aunt name who was orphaned with her mother?

4. How old was Gluckel when the German Jews were forced to leave Hamburg?

5. How many Reichsthalers did the richest Jew in Altona own?

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