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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Hapsburgs annex Bosnia?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1932.

2. Where was Dr. Heinrich's family killed in a fire-bombing during WWII?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Dresden.
(d) London.

3. What is Amalie Sutter's profession?
(a) She is an archeologist.
(b) She is a forensics specialist.
(c) She is a entomologist.
(d) She is an art historian.

4. Where does Munib's father hide the haggadah in “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940"?
(a) In a Muslim cemetery.
(b) In the floorboards of his home.
(c) In a Jewish cemetery.
(d) In the library of the mosque.

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

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

7. Where is Hanna's home?
(a) New York, U.S.
(b) Sydney, Australia.
(c) Boston, U.S.
(d) Paris, France.

8. 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) "Fifty years."
(b) "Two centuries."
(c) "Twenty years."
(d) "A century."

9. How are the book clasps to the Sarajevo Haggadah described in the report that Hanna reads in the archives in “Hanna: Vienna, Spring 1996”?
(a) "Water-damaged and rusted."
(b) "Rusted and worn."
(c) "Extraordinarily beautiful."
(d) "Cheap and faulty."

10. When was the Sarajevo Haggadah last bound, according to the narrator in “Hanna: Sarajevo, Spring 1996”?
(a) The 1780s.
(b) The 1890s.
(c) The 1850s.
(d) The 1910s.

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

12. Who wrote the book My Youth in Vienna that Heinlich reads from to Hanna in “Hanna: Vienna, Spring 1996”?
(a) Arthur Schnitzler.
(b) Joseph Kohen.
(c) Jim Bardayal.
(d) Hamish Sajjan.

13. Who was the ancient Near-Eastern manuscripts specialist whose report Hanna reads at the archives in “Hanna: Vienna, Spring 1996”?
(a) Werner Heinrich.
(b) Joseph Kohen.
(c) Yad Vashem.
(d) Herman Rothschild.

14. What is the name of Stela's son?
(a) Habib.
(b) Ozren.
(c) Alia.
(d) Sava.

15. Whose mathematical text is taken out and presented to General Faber at the museum in “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940"?
(a) Yad Vashem's.
(b) Elia Mizrahi's.
(c) Pythagoras's.
(d) Albert Einstein's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The word "haggadah" is from the Hebrew root word "hgd" which means what?

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

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

4. How does the narrative style of the novel change in “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940"?

5. What Muslim name do Serif and Stela give to Lola while she stays with them?

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