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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why have nearly half a dozen maids refused to work for Celia Foote, as revealed in chapter 3?
(a) She is too odd.
(b) She does not offer to pay enough.
(c) She refuses to tell her husband about hiring a maid.
(d) The house is too large and it is too much work.

2. What is Skeeter doing when she runs into Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt in chapter 15?
(a) Playing tennis.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Biking.
(d) Playing golf.

3. How old was Treelore when he died?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-four.
(d) Seventeen.

4. What threat did Hilly make against Skeeter early in the novel that causes her angst in chapter 5?
(a) To kick her out of the Junior League if she does not publish the bathroom initiative.
(b) To throw her out of the bridge game if she does not stop cheating.
(c) To tell her mother she refuses to follow instructions in editing the League newsletter.
(d) To cancel the date she has planned with Stuart Whitworth.

5. What does Skeeter admit caused her some disappointment at first in chapter 12?
(a) That Aibileen is doing the writing.
(b) That Aibileen is unwilling to help.
(c) That Aibileen is unwilling to get other maids to help.
(d) That Aibileen is unwilling to do any of the writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?

2. What gesture would Constantine use to let Skeeter knew she wanted her to pay close attention to her?

3. What does Aibileen write in a small blue notepad?

4. What book does Skeeter steal from the white library in chapter 13 because it has been damaged and defamed?

5. Who, in chapter 16, approaches Aibileen at a Community Concerns Meeting at her church about Skeeter's book?

(see the answer key)

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