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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bela's mother make and sell before she married?
(a) Ladies' gloves.
(b) Wool scarves.
(c) Gold and silver lace.
(d) Buttons.

2. Under whose rule did the Jews settle in Altona?
(a) The King of France.
(b) The King of Sweden.
(c) The King of Germany.
(d) The King of Denmark.

3. Who first published Gluckel's memoirs in 1896?
(a) Samuel Hameln.
(b) Chayim Kaufman.
(c) David Kaufmann.
(d) Alexander Hameln.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Joseph Hameln move to await word to return to the Promised Land?

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

3. For how long did Judah Berlin take the Danzig assignment?

4. From whom did Gluckel receive secular education?

5. To whom was Yenta Hameln betrothed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the youngest of Joseph Hameln's children?

2. What is revealed of Gluckel's later life in the Introduction?

3. What were the living conditions like when Gluckel's family returned to Hamburg?

4. What were the families in Altona like? When and why did Gluckel's family return to Hamburg?

5. Who are the eldest of Chayim's siblings described in Book II?

6. What does the Introduction say about the value of The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln as a historical artifact?

7. What examples did Gluckel give of her father taking in others into his home?

8. What arrived in Hanover to transport the wedding party in Book II? How did Chayim's father handle the situation?

9. Where did Gluckel stay after her wedding in Book II?

10. What advice did Gluckel leave to her readers in Book I?

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