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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 company awards Helene the Grant-in-Aid money to write American history dramatizations?
(a) CBS.
(b) PBS.
(c) ABC.
(d) NBC.

2. What type of essays does Frank let Helene know he is sending her in February 1951?
(a) Eighteenth Century.
(b) Shakespearean.
(c) Seventeenth Century.
(d) Elizabethan.

3. What does Helene promise her English friends she will try not to get on the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?
(a) Gin and ashes.
(b) Coffee and chocolate.
(c) Wine and crumbs.
(d) Tears and smears.

4. What is the complete name of the anthology Helene requests Frank send her in late 1950?
(a) The Complete works of Q.
(b) The Penguin's Path.
(c) The Parish Guild.
(d) The Pilgrim's Way.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Helene is deeply disappointed to find __________ has been deleted from the Sermons she likes to read aloud.

2. What kind of books does Helene's friend Brian buy for a living?

3. Cecily Farr asks Helene to keep her letter a secret from whom?

4. What does Helene tell Frank she does with the books she no longer wants?

5. What does the TV producer offer Helene to write for television?

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