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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Life in Hamburg was granted at the mercy of whom?
(a) The State Council.
(b) The King.
(c) The Town Council.
(d) The Dictator.

4. Where did Joseph Hameln set up Yenta and his bride?
(a) Hanover.
(b) Hameln.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Danzig.

5. How long did Gluckel and Chayim stay in Hameln after marrying?
(a) Three years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

6. How old was Mata when she died?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

7. 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?
(a) God.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Our parents.
(d) The Torah.

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

9. Where did Gluckel and Chayim go after Hameln?
(a) Danzig.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Berlin.

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

11. Who was the eldest of Joseph Hameln's siblings?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Moses.
(c) Noah.
(d) Joseph.

12. How old was Gluckel when her first husband died?
(a) 44.
(b) 52.
(c) 40.
(d) 45.

13. What did Mordecai decide to trade in Germany?
(a) Furs.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Wine.

14. What was the name of Gluckel's sister?
(a) Hendele.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Zipporah.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the second eldest of Joseph Hameln's siblings?

2. Who turned out to be a Messianic pretender?

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

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

5. How long after Mata's birth was the plague rumored in Hamburg?

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