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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Raz's wife?
(a) Sara.
(b) Aida.
(c) Afsana.
(d) Alia.

2. What is "avodat ha kodesh" translated as in “Wine Stains: Venice, 1609”?
(a) "A holy work."
(b) "A betrayal."
(c) "The sanctity of marriage."
(d) "A mortal sin."

3. What pope had claimed, "I am pope everywhere except in Venice," according to the narrator in “Wine Stains: Venice, 1609”?
(a) Pope Gregory XIII.
(b) Pope Benedict XVI.
(c) Pope Pius XI.
(d) Pope John XXIII.

4. What Jewish sin is considered Judah Aryeh's greatest weakness in the novel?
(a) Infidelity.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Gambling.

5. From what animal is the hair that was found on the Sarajevo Haggadah, according to the analyst?
(a) It is from a squirrel.
(b) It is from a dog.
(c) It is from a weasel.
(d) It is from a cat.

6. Who is the colleague of Hanna's that has supposedly been in Sarajevo in "Hanna: London, Spring 1996"?
(a) Keith Lowery.
(b) Hamish Sajjan.
(c) Amitai Yomtov.
(d) Joseph Kohen.

7. What is the name of Judah Aryeh's wife?
(a) Sava.
(b) Lola.
(c) Sarai.
(d) Alia.

8. What Australian artist does Hanna complain about not being on display at the museum in the beginning of "Hanna: London, Spring 1996"?
(a) Arthur Boyd.
(b) Arthur Streeton.
(c) Sidney Nolan.
(d) Russel Drysdale.

9. What is the name of Zahra's father?
(a) Hamish Sajjan.
(b) Yad Vashem.
(c) Ozren Karaman.
(d) Ibraham al-Tarek.

10. Who has sent Hanna the photograph of the woman with the silver earring in "Hanna: London, Spring 1996"?
(a) Frau Zweig.
(b) Ozren Karaman.
(c) Arthur Schnitzler.
(d) Werner Heinrich.

11. What was the name of Hanna's father?
(a) Dr. Josip Boscovic.
(b) Werner Heinrich.
(c) Aaron Sharansky.
(d) Arthur Schnitzler.

12. What is the second part of the Talmud called?
(a) The Gemara.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Mishnah.
(d) The Vedas.

13. Where is Hanna's mother being held at the hospital in "Hanna: Boston, Spring 1996"?
(a) Mount Zion Hospital.
(b) Mount Auburn Hospital.
(c) Bellevue Hospital.
(d) St. Mary's Hospital.

14. What is the name of the bookbinder that Ruti becomes involved with?
(a) Ozren.
(b) Habib.
(c) Micha.
(d) Sava.

15. In what year was the queen's confessor, Tomas de Torquemada named Grand Inquisitor of the Holy Inquisition?
(a) 1511.
(b) 1477.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1483.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Jewish Rabbi that pressed the case for the Jews and had arranged the queen's secret marriage to Ferdinand, according to the narrator in "Saltwater: Tarragona, 1492"?

2. What game do Judah Aryeh and Father Vistorini play regarding the censorship of the Sarajevo Haggadah?

3. Who is Hanna's friend that offers her a cottage in Hampstead in "Hanna: London, Spring 1996"?

4. Who is in the photograph with the woman wearing the silver earring in "Hanna: London, Spring 1996"?

5. What type of surgery does Hanna's mother undergo after the car accident in "Hanna: Boston, Spring 1996"?

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