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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year is the Volume II of the Works and Life of Sir Walter Savage Landor that is sent to Helene published?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1893.

2. Where did Helene see the ad for Marks & Co., prompting her to write them?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) Saturday Review of Literature.
(c) Barnes & Noble.
(d) Bookpress Monthly.

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

4. What does Helene threaten to do with the ripped pages of the book she is terribly disappointed by in her October 1951 letter?
(a) Mail them to Frank.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Paper her walls.
(d) Wrap things in them.

5. Which of the following employees of Marks & Co. was the first to write immediately to thank Helene for her 1951 Easter package?
(a) Megan.
(b) Frank.
(c) Bill.
(d) Cecily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What impressed Helene about the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?

2. Who does Helene say she is in her first letter to Marks & Co.?

3. Helene specifically says she does not want any love poems from whom?

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

5. Maxine thought Marks & Co. had a ____________ smell.

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