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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Elias' mother?
(a) Esther.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Gluckel.
(d) Hannah.

2. In what month did Chayim fall on a sharp stone while on business?
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) April.
(d) July.

3. Where was Gluckel's second marriage set to take place?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Levi.
(d) Metz.

4. Where did Samuel's daughter live in Book VII?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Hanover.
(d) Bamburg.

5. With whom did Gluckel meet at Leipzig Fair to discuss the matter with Loeb in Book V?
(a) Hirz.
(b) Mordecai.
(c) Joseph.
(d) Abraham.

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

7. Who helped Levy after the crash and then became one of the richest men in the community in Book VII?
(a) Abraham Loeb.
(b) Joseph Hameln.
(c) Moses Krumbach
(d) Abraham Levy.

8. Who was expelled from Helmstadt for being a Jew in Book IV?
(a) Joseph Hameln.
(b) Reb Moses.
(c) Reb Samuel.
(d) Moshe Stadthagen.

9. Whose house did Gluckel move into when Isai Willstadt returned to Metz?
(a) Abraham Levy's.
(b) Moshe Stevens'.
(c) Jacob Marburg's.
(d) Moses Hameln's.

10. For how long did the Talmud instructor agree to teach and board Joseph in Book V?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Four years.
(d) Three years.

11. How much money did it cost Joseph Hameln to stay in Hildesheim for five more years in Book IV?
(a) 20,000 Reichsthalers.
(b) 18,000 Reichsthalers.
(c) 10,000 Reichsthalers.
(d) 1,000 Reichsthalers.

12. Who did Gluckel ask to check her figures for auction so her values were not set too low or too high in Book V?
(a) Chayim.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Moshe.
(d) Joseph.

13. Who hosted the inn where Gluckel stayed with during her son Moses' wedding?
(a) Samuel Stein.
(b) Samson Baiersdorf .
(c) Abraham Levy.
(d) Hirz Levi.

14. Who was a Talmudic scholar who was helped financially by his father and father-in-law, Abraham Krumbach, in Book VII?
(a) Rabbi Simeon Hirsch.
(b) Rabbi Joseph Hameln.
(c) Rabbi Samuel Levy.
(d) Rabbi Abraham Levy.

15. Of whom did Gluckel write in order to explain that a man can mean well but end in folly, as a parable of her marriage to Levy?
(a) Judah.
(b) King Herod.
(c) Moses.
(d) King Jedijah.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Joseph Hameln have when Chayim and Gluckel visited in Book IV?

2. In whose service did Rabbi Samuel Levy work?

3. How long did Gluckel and Chayim stay with his parents in Book IV?

4. How old was Miriam when Gluckel remarried?

5. For how long did Gluckel remain sick following her betrothal to her second husband?

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