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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 Helene spill on one of the dollar bills she sends to England in November 1951?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Red nail polish.
(c) Gin.
(d) Red wine.

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

3. What term does Helene complain of being used instead of "cheap" in her letter of January 10, 1958?
(a) Reasonable.
(b) Inexpensive.
(c) Cruddy.
(d) Low.

4. Who says they will gladly put up Helene when she visits England if they are still alive?
(a) Mrs. Boulton.
(b) Mr. Marks.
(c) Frank.
(d) Cecily.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Helene permission to publish her correspondence with Frank?

2. Where had Frank been to buy books in the spring of 1951?

3. What kind of England does Helene dream of finding?

4. What novel does Helene finally read and love?

5. What was the name of the professor who first got Helene interested in books?

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