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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996” – “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the head of the museum library that is said to have saved the Sarajevo Haggadah during the Bosnian War in the novel?
(a) Yad Vashem.
(b) Ozren Karaman.
(c) Jim Bardayal.
(d) Joseph Kohen.

2. Who is Hanna's former teacher and the leading Hebrew manuscripts specialist in the world?
(a) Jim Bardayal.
(b) Joseph Kohen.
(c) Werner Heinrich.
(d) Yad Vashem.

3. What does the saltwater used at the seder table represent?
(a) The parting of the Red Sea.
(b) The fish of the sea.
(c) The worship of the Golden calf.
(d) The tears of the slaves in Egypt.

4. Who is the official UN observer who comes to view the Sarajevo Haggadah in Part I of “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?
(a) Jim Bardayal.
(b) Hamish Sajjan.
(c) Yad Vashem.
(d) Ozren Karaman.

5. When does the inscription in the Sarajevo Haggadah suggest that it was surveyed by Giovanni Domenico Vistorini?
(a) 1609.
(b) 1556.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1811.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what neighborhood do Karaman and Hanna go to dinner in Part III of “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?

2. What is the name of Lola's little sister?

3. What does Hanna describe as the source of the yellow pigment in the illustrations of the Sarajevo Haggadah?

4. Who sold the Sarajevo Haggadah to the National Museum in Sarajevo?

5. What does Hanna describe the parchments of the Sarajevo Haggadah having been made of in her assessment of them?

(see the answer key)

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