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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Frank hope will be elected in his October 1951 letter to Helene?
(a) Neville Chamberlain.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Margaret Thatcher.

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

4. Where had Frank been to buy books in the spring of 1951?
(a) Country estates.
(b) America.
(c) Library sales.
(d) Wales.

5. Helene apologizes on behalf of America for letting England _____________.
(a) Disappear.
(b) Decay.
(c) Freeze.
(d) Starve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill Humphries do for Marks & Co.?

2. How old is Bill Humphries' great-aunt who he lives with?

3. What is the name of Frank and Nora's oldest daughter?

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

5. What year was the Walton's Lives published that Frank sends to Helene in March 1952?

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