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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?
(a) The risk of the transmission of disease.
(b) The blacks would harm the whites.
(c) They are too different.
(d) Blacks are not smart enough to keep up with whites.

2. What does Skeeter feel the Whitworth house is a museum in honor of in chapter 20?
(a) His dead grandfather.
(b) The War Between the States.
(c) Mississippi State.
(d) His parents.

3. Who did Johnny Foote tell Minny he had asked to come play bridge with Celia?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Skeeter Phelan.
(c) Mrs. Walters.
(d) Elizabeth Leefolt.

4. How many interviews with maids does the editor suggest Skeeter include in her book?
(a) Twelve or more.
(b) Thirty or less.
(c) Twenty or more.
(d) Five or six.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How common does Aibileen tell Skeeter it was for women to give up their children to care for white families?

3. Who did Celia's husband date before he married Celia?

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

5. Why does Minny tell Aibileen she needs to find a new job in chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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