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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 is the Shinalator?
(a) A floor polishing machine.
(b) A silver polishing machine.
(c) A hair conditioner.
(d) A hair dryer.

2. With whom does Skeeter plan to share the advance money and subsequent royalty payments with?
(a) Just Aibileen.
(b) All the maids who helped write the book.
(c) Aibileen and Minny.
(d) Her mother.

3. Who was Carl Roberts?
(a) A friend of Stuart Whitworth.
(b) A white activist in Mississippi.
(c) A young black man lynched from speaking out against the Mississippi governor.
(d) A black man jailed for a sit in at a lunch counter.

4. Why did Constantine give her daughter to an orphanage in Chicago when she was just a little girl?
(a) Constantine was hiding her from her biological father.
(b) She was ill and Constantine no longer wanted her.
(c) Her skin was too white for her to go unnoticed in the south.
(d) Constantine was single and could not care for her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Tate accuse Celia of in chapter 18?

2. 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?

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

4. What famous literary character does Skeeter compare herself to in chapter 27?

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

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