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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Gluckel's mother?
(a) Hannah.
(b) Helga.
(c) Ulk.
(d) Bela.

2. When did Gluckel's family return to Hameln?
(a) 1672.
(b) 1662.
(c) 1680.
(d) 1658.

3. Where did Joseph Hameln set up Yenta and his bride?
(a) Danzig.
(b) Hameln.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Hanover.

4. Who fell upon hard times in Poland who was helped by Joseph until being enticed by unfulfilled promises in Hameln?
(a) Hirz Letz.
(b) Solomon Gans.
(c) Samuel Cleves.
(d) Abraham Hameln.

5. What did the father bird do to the first bird he was taking across the stream in Gluckel's introduction to her memoirs?
(a) Drowned it.
(b) Saved it.
(c) Kissed it.
(d) Abandoned it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Joseph Hameln's children died at the age of fifty?

2. Who was the sixth of Joseph Hameln's children?

3. How did Gluckel's maternal grandfather die?

4. How many Reichsthalers did the richest Jew in Altona own?

5. Who did the widow of Sussmann Gans marry?

(see the answer key)

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