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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank's wife Nora reveal she has used the tins of dried eggs to trade for?

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

3. What does Helene's English friend tell her the powdered eggs in England taste like?

4. Helene says after she visits England, America will have to apologize for her _____________.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the exchange of letters a small documentary of events in American and British popular culture in the 1950s and 1960s?

Essay Topic 2

Helene concludes that she goes through life "watching the English language being raped before me face." What does she mean by this and why does she use a literary reference to Edward Arlington Robinson?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Helene finds a valuable connection in reading the words that many others have read before her.

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