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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. Which child did Gluckel have while Judah Berlin was in Danzig?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Zepporah.
(d) Mata.

2. Where were seed pearls used for jewelry plentiful for trade?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Danzig.

3. Mordecai was killed between Hanover and where?
(a) Hildesheim.
(b) Hameln.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Danzig.

4. To whom was Yenta Hameln betrothed?
(a) Abraham Letz.
(b) Hirz Letz.
(c) Samuel Cleves.
(d) Solomon Gans.

5. Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln takes place beginning in what year?
(a) 1646.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1635.
(d) 1600.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the fifth of Joseph Hameln's children?

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

4. Gluckel wrote in Book III that Judah brought them nothing, but now has how many Reichsthalers?

5. In what year did Gluckel complete her diaries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What different publications of the narrative are discussed in the Introduction?

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

3. Where did Jacob stop along the route in Book III?

4. To whom was Gluckel's sister betrothed? What was her father's position on the dowry?

5. What plague scare happened in Gluckel's family?

6. What did Gluckel write by way of introduction to the memoirs in Book I? Whom did she address?

7. What did Gluckel write of "preaching" in Book I? Did she?

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

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

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

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