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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters, 1949 - 1950.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What street does Helene live on in New York City?
(a) West 42nd Street.
(b) Charing Cross Road.
(c) East 95th Street.
(d) Broadway.

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

5. Cecily invites Helene to stay with her parents where?
(a) Middlesex.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Tuscany.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much meat does Helene discover the Londoners are rationed per family in 1949?

2. What anthology does Helene request Frank send her in late 1950?

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

4. What month and year does Helene start her correspondence with Marks & Co.?

5. What year is the Volume II of the Works and Life of Sir Walter Savage Landor that is sent to Helene published?

(see the answer key)

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