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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Gluckel ask to keep an eye on Loeb since he knew little business while in Berlin?
(a) Hirz.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Hirschel.
(d) Samuel.

2. Who was expelled from Helmstadt for being a Jew in Book IV?
(a) Moshe Stadthagen.
(b) Joseph Hameln.
(c) Reb Samuel.
(d) Reb Moses.

3. Which of the five Jews warned by the King of France remained in Lorraine?
(a) Jacob and Moses.
(b) Isai and Chayim.
(c) Isai and Jacob.
(d) Samuel and Moses.

4. How long did Gluckel and Chayim stay with his parents in Book IV?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three weeks.

5. What son was Gluckel nursing when she and Chayim visited his parents in Book IV?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Michael.
(c) Mordecai.
(d) Joseph.

6. How old was Zipporah when a marriage was proposed?
(a) Almost 14.
(b) Almost 11.
(c) Almost 13.
(d) Almost 12.

7. How old was Miriam when Gluckel remarried?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 11.

8. Who brokered the marriage of Zipporah?
(a) Hannah Goldman.
(b) Leffman Behrens.
(c) Alexander Lietz.
(d) Loeb Hamburger.

9. Leser met Gluckel on her way to Metz with a letter and a what?
(a) Spice cake.
(b) Bread.
(c) A carriage.
(d) A key.

10. In what year was Chayim Hameln laid to rest?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1691.
(d) 1694.

11. Where did Gluckel discover that Loeb had debts due?
(a) Levin Fair.
(b) Brunswick Fair.
(c) Hanover Fair.
(d) Berlin.

12. For how long did the Talmud instructor agree to teach and board Joseph in Book V?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

13. What was the agreed dowry for Elias' betrothal?
(a) 20,000 Reichsthalers.
(b) 50,000 Reichsthalers.
(c) 30,000 Reichsthalers.
(d) 40,000 Reichsthalers.

14. Gluckel's son Loeb died before he was how old?
(a) 36.
(b) 34.
(c) 32.
(d) 28.

15. Who moved to Hamburg, where he lost all his money, before moving to Altona to be a money-changer?
(a) Samuel Levy.
(b) Joseph Lifshitz.
(c) Abraham Metz.
(d) Hirz Levy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the second money-changer in Altona to disappear?

2. How much money did it cost Joseph Hameln to stay in Hildesheim for five more years in Book IV?

3. Which of the five Jews warned by the King of France returned to Metz?

4. Of whom did Gluckel write in order to explain that a man can mean well but end in folly, as a parable of her marriage to Levy?

5. When did Gluckel's son Moses marry?

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