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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. When Hanna finally gets to see the book for the first time in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996,” she says that "No conservator had handled this manuscript for" how long?
(a) "Two centuries."
(b) "Twenty years."
(c) "Fifty years."
(d) "A century."

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

3. Where did Hanna spend six months learning how to properly mix wheat paste?
(a) Iran.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Japan.

4. What does Hanna describe as the source of the blue pigment in the panels of the Sarajevo Haggadah?
(a) Squid ink.
(b) Indigo.
(c) Lapis lazuli.
(d) Vinegar.

5. Where was the Sarajevo Haggadah last bound, according to the narrator in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?
(a) Sarajevo.
(b) Vienna.
(c) Naples.
(d) Venice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the Sarajevo seige begin in the Bosnian War?

3. In what subject did Hanna earn her master's degree?

4. What is Hanna's mother's profession?

5. In what subjects did Hanna earn double-honors degrees in college?

(see the answer key)

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