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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Helene send in her Christmas 1951 package to Marks & Co. along with two boxes of eggs?
(a) Tins of chocolate.
(b) Whole turkey.
(c) Tins of tongue.
(d) Rack of lamb.

2. What does Megan Wells hope for in her April 1951 letter to Helene?
(a) Helene will send more eggs.
(b) Helene will invite her to America.
(c) Helene will visit England.
(d) Helene will send nylons.

3. What does Helene joke that she financed for her dentist in her September 1952 letter?
(a) His Porsche.
(b) His honeymoon.
(c) His summer house.
(d) His new house.

4. Helene apologizes on behalf of America for letting England _____________.
(a) Starve.
(b) Decay.
(c) Disappear.
(d) Freeze.

5. Maxine thought Marks & Co. had a ____________ smell.
(a) Lovely.
(b) Unpleasant.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Foreign.

6. Which of the following is NOT one of the things Helene wants Maxine to write her about?
(a) The tube.
(b) Globe Theater.
(c) Inns of the Court.
(d) Buckingham Palace.

7. Helene says after she visits England, America will have to apologize for her _____________.
(a) Humor.
(b) Sins.
(c) Accent.
(d) Bumbling.

8. Helene's friend Maxine visits London and thinks Marks & Co. is right out of __________________.
(a) Dickens.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Austen.
(d) Bronte.

9. What does Bill Humphries offer to Helene in his April 1951 letter?
(a) To send her anything from London.
(b) To visit her in America.
(c) To send her free books.
(d) To stay with his family in London.

10. Why does Helene request the recipe from Cecily?
(a) Her birthday.
(b) Brian's birthday.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

11. Helene tells Maxine in her February 1952 letter that she may not have the __________ to visit Marks & Co. someday.
(a) Time.
(b) Nerve.
(c) Desire.
(d) Money.

12. What year was the Walton's Lives published that Frank sends to Helene in March 1952?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1840.

13. What book does Helene tell Frank she is terribly disappointed with in her October 1951 letter?
(a) Vulgate Latin.
(b) Elizabethan Poems.
(c) Eric Coates' London Suite.
(d) Pepys' Diary.

14. Who made the gift the booksellers sent to Helene for Christmas 1951?
(a) Cecily's eighty year old grandmother.
(b) Frank's eighty year old neighbor.
(c) Frank's eighty year old mother.
(d) Frank's wife.

15. Which of the following employees of Marks & Co. was the first to write immediately to thank Helene for her 1951 Easter package?
(a) Megan.
(b) Bill.
(c) Frank.
(d) Cecily.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what company does Helene order the packages that she sends to Marks & Co.?

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

3. How many employees are working at Marks & Co. in 1951?

4. What does Frank send to Helene for Christmas 1952?

5. What does Bill Humphries do for Marks & Co.?

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