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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Phelan tell the Whitworths Skeeter has been writing about in chapter 20?
(a) The civil rights movement.
(b) Housekeeping hints.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Black maids working in white households in the south.

2. Why does Stuart fail to greet his own parents in chapter 28 when he and Skeeter see them during a dinner out?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He wants to keep Skeeter to himself.
(c) Skeeter is drunk.
(d) Skeeter's skirt is too short.

3. How long have Hilly, Skeeter, and Elizabeth been friends?
(a) Since college.
(b) Since infancy.
(c) Since high school.
(d) Since elementary school.

4. What did Robert Brown do for Aibileen in the aftermath of Treelore's death?
(a) Did some grocery shopping for her.
(b) Cleaned out Treelore's apartment.
(c) Mowed her yard free of charge.
(d) Made repairs around the house.

5. What are Yule May, Hilly Holbrook's maid, and her husband saving up for as she tells Aibileen in chapter 16?
(a) Tuition for their daughter to go to college.
(b) A down payment on a new car.
(c) Tuition for their twin sons to go to college.
(d) A down payment on a new house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Benefit to benefit?

2. What war does Skeeter see a news report about on the television in chapter 19?

3. What is the Shinalator?

4. Why does Minny fear for her job in chapter 24?

5. What does Minny say God would have made people if he had intended for whites and blacks to spend a large amount of time together?

(see the answer key)

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