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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many wedding guests traveled to Gluckel's wedding in addition to Gluckel's parents?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

2. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel wrote that it was what year?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1645.
(d) 1692.

3. Who was the fourth of Joseph Hameln's children?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Moses.
(c) Yenta.
(d) Reb Samuel.

4. Who was Gluckel's maternal grandfather?
(a) Joseph Hameln.
(b) Reb Gumpel.
(c) Levi Stein.
(d) Nathan Melrich.

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

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

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

8. Where did Joseph Hameln move to await word to return to the Promised Land?
(a) Hildesheim.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Hameln.
(d) Hanover.

9. Who did Gluckel's family stop to visit in Hanover in Book III?
(a) Joseph Hameln.
(b) Joshua Hameln.
(c) Moshe Hameln.
(d) Abraham Hameln.

10. Who was the seventh of Joseph Hameln's children?
(a) Loeb Bonn.
(b) Reb Isaac.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Reb Samuel.

11. Who was the sixth of Joseph Hameln's children?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Bela.
(c) Hendele.
(d) Esther.

12. Who did the widow of Sussmann Gans marry?
(a) Cleves.
(b) Gans.
(c) Letz.
(d) Feibisch.

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

14. Who fell upon hard times in Poland who was helped by Joseph until being enticed by unfulfilled promises in Hameln?
(a) Samuel Cleves.
(b) Abraham Hameln.
(c) Solomon Gans.
(d) Hirz Letz.

15. Gluckel wrote in Book III that Judah brought them nothing, but now has how many Reichsthalers?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 40,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of Gluckel's children were still living at home when her first husband died?

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

4. How old was Gluckel when she was betrothed?

5. What was the name of Gluckel's mother?

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