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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aibileen write in a small blue notepad?
(a) Her prayers.
(b) Her thoughts and emotions.
(c) Her fictional stories.
(d) Her grocery lists.

2. What appliance does Mrs. Phelan finally allow installed in her house in chapter 21 after receiving doctors orders to do so?
(a) A refrigertor.
(b) A clothes washer.
(c) Air conditioning.
(d) A dish washer.

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

4. When Skeeter calls Aibileen in chapter 19 to tell her Yule May's decision, what does Aibileen say she was told about Yule May's working status?
(a) She no longer works for Hilly Holbrook.
(b) She has decided to move out of the area.
(c) She has begun working for Lou Anne.
(d) She moved to Mrs. Leefolt's house.

5. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?
(a) Interviews with black maids about their families.
(b) Interviews with white housewives about their black maids.
(c) Interviews with black maids about their white employers.
(d) Interviews with southern women about their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threat did Hilly make against Skeeter early in the novel that causes her angst in chapter 5?

2. What does Mrs. Leefolt tell Mae Mobley about using Aibileen's toilet in chapter 7?

3. Why does Minny tell Aibileen she needs to find a new job in chapter 2?

4. In chapter 15, who accuses Aibileen of not teaching Mae Mobley manners?

5. How old was Treelore when he died?

(see the answer key)

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