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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Skeeter feel the Whitworth house is a museum in honor of in chapter 20?
(a) Mississippi State.
(b) His dead grandfather.
(c) The War Between the States.
(d) His parents.

2. What book does Minny discover Johnny Foote is reading in chapter 18?
(a) Stride Toward Freedom.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(c) The Biography of Washington Carver.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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

4. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?
(a) The blacks would harm the whites.
(b) They are too different.
(c) Blacks are not smart enough to keep up with whites.
(d) The risk of the transmission of disease.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aibileen reveal in chapter 12 about the kitchen in the governor's mansion?

2. What is the Shinalator?

3. Who buys a copy of Skeeter and Aibileen's book for Hilly Holbrook?

4. What did Robert Brown do for Aibileen in the aftermath of Treelore's death?

5. When does Skeeter mail the manuscript to Harper and Row?

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