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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much meat does Helene discover the Londoners are rationed per family in 1949?
(a) Three ounces per week.
(b) Two ounces per week.
(c) Two 4 ounce steaks per month.
(d) One chicken per month.

2. What novel does Helene finally read and love?
(a) Little Women.
(b) Wuthering Heights.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Pride and Prejudice.

3. What does Helene promise to give to Sheila and Mary's children?
(a) U.S. savings bonds.
(b) Her Collected Juvenile Works.
(c) Her English tea set.
(d) Her book collection.

4. In her January 1956 letter Helene tells Frank she is saving her money to come to England when?
(a) For Easter.
(b) For Christmas.
(c) Next fall.
(d) Next summer.

5. What term does Helene hope doesn't mean the same thing in England as it does in America?
(a) Mistress.
(b) None is correct.
(c) Madam.
(d) Pound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helene joke that she financed for her dentist in her September 1952 letter?

2. What is the name of Frank and Nora's oldest daughter?

3. What company awards Helene the Grant-in-Aid money to write American history dramatizations?

4. What was the cause of Frank's death?

5. Which of the following in NOT one of the bibles Marks & Co. offered Helene in place of the Bible she requested?

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