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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Skeeter go in chapter 19 to cool off in the overwhelming heat?
(a) The house.
(b) Hilly's house.
(c) The Cadillac.
(d) The local department store.

2. Why does Stuart take back the marriage proposal he makes to Skeeter in chapter 28?
(a) He has decided he does not like her sense of style.
(b) He claims he does not know her after she tells him about her book.
(c) He has just learned her mother is dying.
(d) Hilly tells him about Skeeter's possession of the Jim Crow laws.

3. What does Minny say God would have made people if he had intended for whites and blacks to spend a large amount of time together?
(a) More open minded.
(b) Color blind.
(c) Less prone to bad moods.
(d) All the same size.

4. What general shares a name with a popular hotel and restaurant in this book?
(a) Robert E. Lee.
(b) Stonewall Jackson.
(c) George Patton.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

5. How common does Aibileen tell Skeeter it was for women to give up their children to care for white families?
(a) Not common, but it was done.
(b) Very common.
(c) Rare.
(d) Everyone did it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Minny forbid Skeeter to do in chapter 17?

2. Why does Celia think Hilly does not like her, a misunderstanding she wants to clear up in chapter 25?

3. What does Aibileen promise all the women she approaches about helping with Skeeter's book will be done to protect their identities?

4. What does Skeeter admit caused her some disappointment at first in chapter 12?

5. What are Yule May, Hilly Holbrook's maid, and her husband saving up for as she tells Aibileen in chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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