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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters, 1951 - 1953.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Frank hope will be elected in his October 1951 letter to Helene?
(a) Neville Chamberlain.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Margaret Thatcher.

4. Where did Helene see the ad for Marks & Co., prompting her to write them?
(a) Saturday Review of Literature.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Barnes & Noble.
(d) Bookpress Monthly.

5. What does Frank finally send to Helene two years after she first requested it?
(a) Elizabethan poems.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Leigh Hunt.
(d) Pepys' Diary.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form would Marks & Co. prefer to receive payment from Helene?

2. What is the complete name of the anthology Helene requests Frank send her in late 1950?

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

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

5. Why does Helene request the recipe from Cecily?

(see the answer key)

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