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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. In what year was Chayim Hameln laid to rest?

2. Where did Gluckel's son Joseph want to study the Talmud?

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

4. Who proposed to Esther, Gluckel's daughter?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Gluckel discover about Loeb's business and finances in Book V?

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

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

7. What are some of the reasons Gluckel considers remarriage in Book VI?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Gluckel's early life (through the age of ten). Where did she receive secular and religious education? Where did she live?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the different causes of premature death in 17th Century Europe. How did many of Gluckel's family die?

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