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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political office is Hilly's husband running for as she announces in chapter 12?
(a) State senate.
(b) Congress.
(c) Mayor.
(d) Governor.

2. What does Minny think Leroy will do when he learns that she participated in the writing of Skeeter's book?
(a) He will take the kids and disappear.
(b) He will be proud of her.
(c) He will divorce her.
(d) He will kill her.

3. What job has Skeeter arranged for Aibileen to take at ten dollars a week?
(a) Cleaning her family's windows.
(b) Writing articles for a New York magazine.
(c) Working in her father's cotton fields.
(d) The Miss Myrna column.

4. What war does Skeeter see a news report about on the television in chapter 19?
(a) World War II.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) Korean War.
(d) War on drugs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?

2. Where does Skeeter tell the reader writers are supposed to live?

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

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

5. Why does Aibileen obsessively check Mrs. Leefolt's progress in reading the book written by Skeeter and Aibileen?

(see the answer key)

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