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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In her introduction to her memoirs, Gluckel wrote that it was what year?

3. What did the father bird do to the first bird he was taking across the stream in Gluckel's introduction to her memoirs?

4. Whose fortune vanishes from lack of supervision in Book II?

5. Where was Gluckel's sister's fiance from?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Gluckel's early years take place, according to the Introduction?

3. Who was Judah Berlin? How is he introduced in Book III?

4. Whom did Chayim send an escort for Gluckel in Book III?

5. Who was Sabbatai Zevi? What impact did he have on the Jews?

6. Who attended Gluckel's wedding? How were they transported?

7. Who was Lob Pinkerle? Describe this individual.

8. When was the plague rumored to be spreading? What did Gluckel's family do?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Lob Pinkerle with Joseph Hameln. How did these two men compare financially? What businesses were they in? What were their characteristics?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the story that Gluckel tells of Mordecai. How was he related to the family? How did he die?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the discrimination Jews faced in 17th Century Europe. What was the "Jewish Emancipation" and when did it come?

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