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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maxine report to Helene that the bookshelves in Marks & Co. are made of?
(a) Oak.
(b) Cherry.
(c) Ash.
(d) Pine.

2. Cruikshank, Rackham and Spy are all English ______________.
(a) Authors.
(b) Illustrators.
(c) Roads.
(d) Cities.

3. Helene wonders if Frank's last name is ___________.
(a) Irish.
(b) German.
(c) Welsh.
(d) French.

4. What does Frank buy in the summer of 1952?
(a) A plane ticket.
(b) A car.
(c) A dog.
(d) A house.

5. What does Bill Humphries do for Marks & Co.?
(a) Bookkeeper.
(b) Assistant.
(c) Buyer.
(d) Cataloguer.

6. What does Frank finally send to Helene two years after she first requested it?
(a) Leigh Hunt.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Pepys' Diary.
(d) Elizabethan poems.

7. What does Frank's wife Nora reveal she has used the tins of dried eggs to trade for?
(a) Money.
(b) Meat.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Nylons.

8. Helene's friend Maxine visits London and thinks Marks & Co. is right out of __________________.
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Austen.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Bronte.

9. What does Frank recommend Helene use to clean her Grolier Bible?
(a) Professionals.
(b) Soap and soda water.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Dry cloth.

10. What TV series is Helene writing for?
(a) Petticoat Junction.
(b) Ellery Queen.
(c) Perry Mason.
(d) Hitchcock Presents.

11. What impressed Helene about the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?
(a) Pages edged in gold.
(b) The inscription.
(c) Gold letters on the cover.
(d) Rare poems.

12. Helene tells Maxine in her February 1952 letter that she may not have the __________ to visit Marks & Co. someday.
(a) Nerve.
(b) Desire.
(c) Time.
(d) Money.

13. Who made the gift the booksellers sent to Helene for Christmas 1951?
(a) Frank's eighty year old mother.
(b) Frank's wife.
(c) Cecily's eighty year old grandmother.
(d) Frank's eighty year old neighbor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of place does Maxine find to stay during her visit to London?

2. What day did Helene receive the gift book of poetry from Marks & Co.?

3. What does Helene request that Frank ask the other employees to vote on in October 1951?

4. Helene apologizes on behalf of America for letting England _____________.

5. What did Helene's salary get raised to in 1952?

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