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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does Mae Mobley suffer when Aibileen first begins to care for her?
(a) Measles.
(b) Colic.
(c) Jaundice.
(d) Chicken pox.

2. What book does Skeeter steal from the white library in chapter 13 because it has been damaged and defamed?
(a) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(b) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(c) Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
(d) The Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

3. Who is Mrs. Stein?
(a) A neighbor to Longleaf.
(b) A maid working in Jackson.
(c) An editor for Harper & Row.
(d) A friend of Skeeter's mother.

4. Why does Celia Foote refuse to tell her husband she has hired a maid in chapter 3?
(a) She does not want him to know she is afraid to be alone.
(b) She is afraid he will not like having a black maid in the house.
(c) She is afriad he will not like the money she is spending on the maid.
(d) She wants him to think she can care for him and the house herself.

5. Why does Aibileen say in chapter 1 that Miss Leefolt cannot soothe her own baby?
(a) She's too skinny.
(b) She's too skittish.
(c) She's too busy.
(d) She's too inexperienced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Skeeter take to carrying around in chapter 11?

2. Why does one of Aibileen's grown white children tell her he still does not drink coffee in chapter 7?

3. Who does Skeeter ask Aibileen about at the end of chapter 1?

4. What does Skeeter's mother nag her about in chapter 5?

5. What does Hilly give to Aibileen after a bridge party in chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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