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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. Where did Rabbi Samuel Levy have a shop?

2. What son was Gluckel nursing when she and Chayim visited his parents in Book IV?

3. Who moved to Hamburg, where he lost all his money, before moving to Altona to be a money-changer?

4. Where did Gluckel take Esther and Nathan to resolve their betrothal in Book V?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Gluckel's family go for New Year's in Book IV? What did they discover about security there?

2. What arrangements were made for Zipporah's wedding? Where was the wedding?

3. Where did Chayim and a group of people contract illness in Book IV? Who was with him?

4. Who are the people in the parable that begins Book IV?

5. What is the moral of the parable that begins Book IV?

6. How did Gluckel hear of Levy's availability? Whom did she consult?

7. To whom was Zipporah betrothed and when?

8. Where did Gluckel's family go to visit Chayim's parents in Book IV? What were they like?

9. What did the King of France warn the Jews in Lorraine in Book VII? What did the Jews do?

10. What financial arrangements were made before the marriage of Gluckel to Levy? What was Gluckel's impression of Levy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Gluckel's use of parable in her memoirs. What is a parable and what examples are there in the text? What is the moral of each?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the dangers of travel and trade that Chayim and his family faced in the 17th Century. What different incidents are referred to in the book where Chayim or others faced danger while conducting business?

Essay Topic 3

Who was Gluckel of Hameln? When was she born? When did she die? Where did she live?

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