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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters, 1953 - 1969.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank buy in the summer of 1952?
(a) A dog.
(b) A plane ticket.
(c) A house.
(d) A car.

2. What is the name of Frank and Nora's oldest daughter?
(a) Mary.
(b) Kate.
(c) Janet.
(d) Sheila.

3. What is the largest amount of cash Helene ever sends to Marks & Co. at one time?
(a) $100.
(b) $20.
(c) $10.
(d) $25.

4. Where does Helene wish her English friends had inscribed the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?
(a) The first page.
(b) The flyleaf.
(c) A card.
(d) The back cover.

5. What essays did Marks & Co. tell Helene would be difficult to find in her first letter from the booksellers?
(a) Selected Essays of Stevenson.
(b) Hazlitt essays.
(c) Leigh Hunt essays.
(d) Virginibus Puerisque.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helene send in her Easter package of 1951?

2. Where does Frank say Nora has been for several months when he writes Helene in March 1958?

3. How much meat does Helene discover the Londoners are rationed per family in 1949?

4. Where did Helene see the ad for Marks & Co., prompting her to write them?

5. Who does Helene compare herself to in her January 1958 letter?

(see the answer key)

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