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

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) War.
(b) All matters.
(c) Religion.
(d) Money and goods.

2. 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) Our parents.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) God.

3. Who did Yenta marry after the death of her husband?
(a) Cleves.
(b) Leffmann.
(c) Gans.
(d) Hameln.

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

5. What did Gluckel find to be a "dull, shabby hole" in Book II?
(a) Her in-law's house.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Hameln.
(d) Her house.

6. When did Gluckel's family return to Hameln?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1672.
(c) 1662.
(d) 1680.

7. Where did Gluckel's family go when the Jews were expelled from her hometown?
(a) Hanover.
(b) Altona.
(c) Danzig.
(d) Hameln.

8. How many Reichsthalers did the richest Jew in Altona own?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

10. How old was Gluckel when the German Jews were forced to leave Hamburg?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

11. Who does Gluckel write lived in Amsterdam with 20,000 Reichsthalers in Book III?
(a) Chayim Hameln.
(b) Elias Ries.
(c) Mordecai Cohen.
(d) Abraham Lietz.

12. What boarder did Gluckel and her husband send to Poland to do business for them in the beginning of Book III?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Mordecai.
(c) Hirz.
(d) Joseph.

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

14. 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?
(a) Literary.
(b) Autobiographical.
(c) Heritage.
(d) Moralistic.

15. What did Gluckel's father trade?
(a) Tea and spices.
(b) Salt.
(c) Precious stones.
(d) Clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln published in its current edition?

3. Who was the richest Altona Jew?

4. Which child did Gluckel have while Judah Berlin was in Danzig?

5. How many days did Gluckel's family wait for carriages to arrive to take them to Gluckel's wedding?

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