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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. Who became pregnant at the same time that Gluckel did with her first child?
(a) Yenta.
(b) Hendele.
(c) Bela.
(d) Anna.
2. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel wrote that it was what year?
(a) 1695.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1645.
(d) 1692.
3. How much was the dowry of Gluckel's sister?
(a) 1800 Reichsthalers.
(b) 2000 Reichsthalers.
(c) 1500 Reichsthalers.
(d) 1200 Reichsthalers.
4. Who was the fourth of Joseph Hameln's children?
(a) Yenta.
(b) Reb Samuel.
(c) Moses.
(d) Abraham.
5. Who did Chayim ask to recommend a Talmud scholar to arbitrate for him in Hildesheim?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Isaac.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Bela's mother make and sell before she married?
2. 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?
3. Who was Gluckel's maternal grandfather?
4. What boarder did Gluckel and her husband send to Poland to do business for them in the beginning of Book III?
5. What did Gluckel's father trade?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the families in Altona like? When and why did Gluckel's family return to Hamburg?
2. What does the Introduction say about the value of The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln as a historical artifact?
3. Who attended Gluckel's wedding? How were they transported?
4. What were the living conditions like when Gluckel's family returned to Hamburg?
5. What is revealed of Gluckel's later life in the Introduction?
6. Who are the eldest of Chayim's siblings described in Book II?
7. What does the Introduction say about Gluckel's achievements as a woman?
8. What different publications of the narrative are discussed in the Introduction?
9. When was the plague rumored to be spreading? What did Gluckel's family do?
10. What plague scare happened in Gluckel's family?
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