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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was the dowry of Gluckel's sister?
(a) 1500 Reichsthalers.
(b) 1800 Reichsthalers.
(c) 1200 Reichsthalers.
(d) 2000 Reichsthalers.

2. 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?
(a) Hirz Lietz.
(b) Moshe Berlin.
(c) Joseph Hameln.
(d) Judah Berlin.

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

4. Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln takes place beginning in what year?
(a) 1600.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1646.
(d) 1635.

5. In what year did Gluckel complete her diaries?
(a) 1720.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1716.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bela's mother make and sell before she married?

2. How old was Gluckel when the Swedes attacked Altona?

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

4. Where did Gluckel's family go when the Jews were expelled from her hometown?

5. In what year did Gluckel remarry?

(see the answer key)

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