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

2. What does Aibileen promise all the women she approaches about helping with Skeeter's book will be done to protect their identities?
(a) The book will never be published.
(b) All names and professions will not be changed.
(c) The book will never be sold in Jackson.
(d) All names and locations will be changed.

3. Who is Miss Myrna?
(a) The name of a weekly love advice column.
(b) A maid in Jackson.
(c) The name of a weekly housecleaning column.
(d) Skeeter's new boss.

4. Why does Hilly express distaste at using Mrs. Leefolt's guest bathroom in chapter 1?
(a) It is the same bathroom the black maid, Aibileen, uses.
(b) It is too small.
(c) It is dirty.
(d) It is the same bathroom the yard man uses.

5. Where does Skeeter get a job in chapter 6?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The Jackson Daily News.
(c) The Junior League newsletter.
(d) The Jackson Journal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What item in the living room of the Foote residence frightens Minny?

3. Who has Skeeter pinpointed as her first interviewee for her book in chapter 8?

4. What is the Shinalator?

5. What are Yule May, Hilly Holbrook's maid, and her husband saving up for as she tells Aibileen in chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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