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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 send in her Christmas package to Marks & Co?
(a) Six steaks.
(b) Sweaters and scarves.
(c) A dozen eggs.
(d) A six pound ham.

2. Helene requests books on behalf of a friend to complete his set of ____________.
(a) Shaw.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dictionaries.
(d) Encyclopedias.

3. What day did Helene receive the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Easter.
(c) Her birthday.
(d) Cecily's birthday.

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

5. When does Frank sign his first letter to Helene with his full name instead of initials?
(a) December 1949.
(b) November 1949.
(c) March 1950.
(d) January 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Helene see the ad for Marks & Co., prompting her to write them?

2. Who does Frank report visited Marks & Co. in May 1957?

3. Who did M. De Tocqueville predict would run the world?

4. Where does the professor teach who first got Helene interested in good literature?

5. Helene apologizes on behalf of America for letting England _____________.

(see the answer key)

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