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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. To whose son was Zipporah proposed to marry in Book IV?

2. Where did Hendele marry?

3. In whose service did Rabbi Samuel Levy work?

4. Who wrote to tell Gluckel that Hirz Levy was widowed?

5. What physician was called to see Chayim after he fell on a sharp stone and was injured?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To whom was Zipporah betrothed and when?

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

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

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

6. What led up to Levy's holding an auction in Book VII? How did Gluckel deal with the situation?

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

8. How did Chayim injure himself in Book V? When and what happened?

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

10. Who died following Gluckel's wedding in Book VII? Who was his widow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who was Sabbatai Zevi? What impact did he have on Gluckel's family and on the Jewish community?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the value of money within 17th Century Jewish society. What is Gluckel's preoccupation with money driven by?

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