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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Wine Stains: Venice, 1609” – “Saltwater: Tarragona, 1492”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hanna order for dinner when she goes out with Karaman in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?
(a) Cevapcici.
(b) Beef curry.
(c) Steak tartare.
(d) Chicken kebabs.

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

3. What is Serif's last name in the novel?
(a) Sajjan.
(b) Vashem.
(c) Kamal.
(d) Yomtov.

4. 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) "A century."
(d) "Fifty years."

5. What was the group of Jews called that arrived in Venice from Egypt and Syria?
(a) The Galicia.
(b) The Ponentini.
(c) The Levantinis.
(d) The Hietzings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isak commit suicide in “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940"?

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

3. What organization has Lola just attended a meeting of in “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940"?

4. Where was the Sarajevo Haggadah last bound, according to the narrator in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?

5. In what year did Pope Sixtus V proclaim a ban on any books by Jews or Saracens that contained anything against the Catholic Church?

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