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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters, 1953 - 1969.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marks & Co. send books to Helene?
(a) Special courier.
(b) FedEx.
(c) UPS.
(d) Book Post.

2. What does Megan Wells hope for in her April 1951 letter to Helene?
(a) Helene will visit England.
(b) Helene will send nylons.
(c) Helene will invite her to America.
(d) Helene will send more eggs.

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

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

5. Where did Helene's friend Brian go to get a money order to send to London?
(a) Times Square.
(b) 42nd Street.
(c) Rockefeller Plaza.
(d) 17th Street.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What company sponsors the TV series Helene is writing for?

3. What had Helene discovered makes the perfect page cutter?

4. What does Maxine report to Helene that the bookshelves in Marks & Co. are made of?

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

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