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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 recipe does Cecily send Helene in November of 1951?
(a) Treacle tart.
(b) Scones.
(c) Yorkshire Pudding.
(d) Christmas pudding.

2. Where does Helene wish her English friends had inscribed the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?
(a) The back cover.
(b) The first page.
(c) A card.
(d) The flyleaf.

3. Who does Helene ask Frank's family to pray for in the fall of 1955?
(a) The New York Mets.
(b) The New York Yankees.
(c) The Brooklyn Dodgers.
(d) The Boston Red Sox.

4. What new things does Helene ask to be sent to her in her November 2, 1951 letter?
(a) Hard-cover vocal scores.
(b) Sheet music.
(c) Playbills.
(d) Hard-cover first editions.

5. Where does the professor teach who first got Helene interested in good literature?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Helene's friend Brian go to get a money order to send to London?

2. What dental work does Helene have to have done in the fall of 1952?

3. What is the only thing Maxine has trouble getting in London because of the rations?

4. What term does Helene hope doesn't mean the same thing in England as it does in America?

5. What does Helene do when she received the first edition from Frank in 1950?

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