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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 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) Paper her walls.
(c) Wrap things in them.
(d) Burn them.

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

3. Helene specifically says she does not want any love poems from whom?
(a) Keats or Shelley.
(b) Dickenson or Frost.
(c) Wyatt or Jonson.
(d) Shakespeare or Wadsworth.

4. What is Frank's concern about the gift the booksellers sent to Helene for Christmas 1951?
(a) It won't fit.
(b) She won't like the color.
(c) She might have to pay a duty.
(d) She might already have one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nora hope Helene can come to England for?

2. Helene says that from where she sits, London is a lot closer than _____________.

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

4. Cruikshank, Rackham and Spy are all English ______________.

5. What does Helene promise her English friends she will try not to get on the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?

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