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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 did the Sarajevo seige begin in the Bosnian War?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1989.

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

3. What is Hanna's mother's profession?
(a) She is a painter.
(b) She is a sculptor.
(c) She is a banker.
(d) She is a neurosurgeon.

4. Who calls Hanna to tell her that the Sarajevo Haggadah has shown up in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?
(a) Jim Bardayal.
(b) Yad Vashem.
(c) Amitai Yomtov.
(d) Ozren Karaman.

5. What makes the Sarajevo Haggadah so rare and unusual?
(a) Jews believed that illustrations violated God's Commandments at this time.
(b) The book was created and bound in a way that broke kosher Jewish laws.
(c) The statements made in the book go against Jewish law.
(d) The style of the artistry in the book did not appear for over a hundred years later than it is dated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Amalie Sutter's profession?

2. Where was the Sarajevo Haggadah created?

3. Who is the head of the museum library that is said to have saved the Sarajevo Haggadah during the Bosnian War in the novel?

4. Who is the official UN observer who comes to view the Sarajevo Haggadah in Part I of “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?

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

(see the answer key)

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