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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where would Helene have to shop for books in New York City if she didn't have Marks & Co. sending them to her door?
(a) 17th Street.
(b) Soho.
(c) Rockefeller Center.
(d) Times Square.

2. Helene is afraid the Easter Bunny will find that Frank has died of ____________.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Greed.

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

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

5. Helene says that from where she sits, London is a lot closer than _____________.
(a) Rockefeller Plaza.
(b) 17th Street.
(c) Times Square.
(d) Soho.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helene request that Frank ask the other employees to vote on in October 1951?

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

3. What does Frank do with books that have no covers?

4. What TV series is Helene writing for?

5. What is Frank's concern about the gift the booksellers sent to Helene for Christmas 1951?

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