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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel recommended to her children that they be honest with both Jews and Gentiles in what?
(a) Money and goods.
(b) All matters.
(c) War.
(d) Religion.

2. Who traveled to England but stopped to prosper in Amsterdam in Book III?
(a) Abraham Lietz and Loet Bischere.
(b) Chayim Hameln and Loeb Bischere.
(c) Mordecai Cohen and Joseph Hameln.
(d) Mordecai Cohen and Loeb Bischere.

3. Who was the second money-changer in Altona to disappear?
(a) Samuel Levy.
(b) Joseph Lifshitz.
(c) Abraham Metz.
(d) Aaron ben Moses.

4. Who did Gluckel and Chayim visit for New Year's in Book IV?
(a) Abraham Stadthagen.
(b) Joseph Hameln.
(c) Moshe Stadthagen.
(d) Abraham Hameln.

5. Where was Gluckel's maternal grandfather from?
(a) Hanover.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Hameln.
(d) Detmold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Chayim ask to recommend a Talmud scholar to arbitrate for him in Hildesheim?

2. How many wedding guests traveled to Gluckel's wedding in addition to Gluckel's parents?

3. What physician was called to see Chayim after he fell on a sharp stone and was injured?

4. In her introduction to her memoirs, what kind of book did Gluckel write that she had no intention of writing because there were already many of them?

5. Who proposed to Esther, Gluckel's daughter?

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