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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 Gluckel and Chayim go to see his parents in Book IV?

2. Who hosted the inn where Gluckel stayed with during her son Moses' wedding?

3. Where did Gluckel stop after Moses' wedding on her way to Metz?

4. How long had it been since Gluckel and Chayim had seen Chayim's parents in Book IV?

5. How old was Gluckel when she married her second husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Gluckel stop on the way to her second wedding? Why?

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

3. When was Chayim buried? What state of mind was Gluckel in following his death?

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

5. What feelings of guilt does Gluckel describe in the beginning of Book VI?

6. How did Gluckel resolve the issues with Esther's betrothal?

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

8. How did Gluckel work through her debts following Chayim's death? Whom did she ask for help?

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

10. Why were Levy's children unable to help him during the crash?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Compare and contrast Chayim Hameln with Hirz Levy. How did the men compare financially? How were they as husbands and fathers?

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