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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what language were the diaries originally written?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Yiddish.

2. What did Bela's mother make and sell before she married?
(a) Wool scarves.
(b) Ladies' gloves.
(c) Buttons.
(d) Gold and silver lace.

3. Where did Gluckel take Esther and Nathan to resolve their betrothal in Book V?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Hanover.

4. Which of Joseph Hameln's children died at the age of fifty?
(a) Reb Samuel.
(b) Reb Isaac.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Moses.

5. How many days did Gluckel's family wait for carriages to arrive to take them to Gluckel's wedding?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under whose rule did the Jews settle in Altona?

2. Where were seed pearls used for jewelry plentiful for trade?

3. How many years were Chayim and Gluckel married?

4. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel wrote that it was what year?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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