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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had it been since Gluckel and Chayim had seen Chayim's parents in Book IV?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

2. How long after he married Gluckel did Hirz Levi's business crash?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Eight months.

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

4. How much money did Joseph Hameln have when Chayim and Gluckel visited in Book IV?
(a) 12,000 Reichsthalers.
(b) 10,000 Reichsthalers.
(c) 20,000 Reichsthalers.
(d) 18,000 Reichsthalers.

5. How old was Hendele when she died?
(a) 32.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 65.

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

7. Where did Gluckel discover that Loeb had debts due?
(a) Hanover Fair.
(b) Levin Fair.
(c) Brunswick Fair.
(d) Berlin.

8. What did the burgher have hidden in his ship in Gluckel's story in Book IV?
(a) Gold.
(b) Francs.
(c) Fur.
(d) Diamonds.

9. Who offered to deliver silver to the mint for the Duke of Lorraine in Book VII?
(a) Moses Rothschild.
(b) Reb Simeon Hameln.
(c) Samuel Letz.
(d) Abraham Levy.

10. Where did Hendele marry?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hanover.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Berlin.

11. Which brother of Chayim's came to pray for him after he was injured from falling in Book V?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Moshe.
(d) Reb Samuel.

12. Leser met Gluckel on her way to Metz with a letter and a what?
(a) A carriage.
(b) A key.
(c) Spice cake.
(d) Bread.

13. Who did Joseph Hameln go to live with after running out of money?
(a) Hannah Goldman.
(b) Alexander Lietz.
(c) Abraham Schneider.
(d) Leffmann Behrens.

14. 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) Moses.
(b) King Jedijah.
(c) Judah.
(d) King Herod.

15. How old was Zipporah when a marriage was proposed?
(a) Almost 14.
(b) Almost 12.
(c) Almost 13.
(d) Almost 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Elias betrothed?

2. Who wrote to tell Gluckel that Hirz Levy was widowed?

3. Where did Gluckel and Chayim arrive for New Year's in Book IV?

4. Who was Gluckel praying with when Chayim died?

5. Who was expelled from Helmstadt for being a Jew in Book IV?

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