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"Divine Secrets": Book vs. Movie Quiz

I loved the book, and I loved the movie, though there are some discrepancies between the two. Your task: choose whether the event took place just in the movie, just in the book, in both, or in neither. Good luck and enjoy. Ya Ya!

A multiple-choice quiz by torioreo. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
torioreo

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
159,059

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
9 / 15

Plays
1327

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Question 1 of 15

1. Siddalee Walker is the oldest of 4 children; the others are Little Shep, Lulu and Baylor. Hint

Neither

Movie Only

Book Only

Both

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Question 2 of 15

2. Vivienne is sent to "St. Augustine's School for Girls" when she becomes too much of a hassle for her mother. Hint

Movie Only

Neither

Both

Book Only

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Question 3 of 15

3. Sidda is a playwright. Hint

Book Only

Movie Only

Neither

Both

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Question 4 of 15

4. In both the book and the movie, Vivi is devastated after Sidda gives a personal interview to a reporter.

True

False

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Question 5 of 15

5. Sidda goes to her friend's cabin to have some alone time to think, and to review "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". Hint

Movie Only

Book Only

Neither

Both

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Question 6 of 15

6. The Ya-Ya's attempt to bring Vivi from her home to the cabin where Sidda is staying, to discuss when Vivi "dropped her basket". Hint

Neither

Book Only

Movie Only

Both

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Question 7 of 15

7. Vivi marries Shep after her husband Jack is killed during WWII. Hint

Both

Neither

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Book Only

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Question 8 of 15

8. In both the book and the movie, the four young Ya-Ya's attend the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta.

True

False

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Question 9 of 15

9. The little numbered key inside the scrapbook reminds Sidda of the day her mother taught her to face her fears upon the back of an elephant. Hint

Movie Only

Both

Neither

Book Only

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Question 10 of 15

10. Sidda postpones her engagement to Connor. Hint

Neither

Both

Movie Only

Book Only

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Question 11 of 15

11. It is revealed that Teensy's husband is gay. Hint

Both

Book Only

Movie Only

Neither

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Question 12 of 15

12. In their youth, the Ya-Ya's were arrested after stripping and going for a swim in a public water container. Hint

Both

Neither

Movie Only

Book Only

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Question 13 of 15

13. In both the book and the movie, Sidda and Connor reconcile; there will be a wedding.

True

False

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Question 14 of 15

14. Sidda is formally inducted into the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Hint

Both

Neither

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Question 15 of 15

15. Sidda and Connor marry in her father's sunflower fields. Hint

Neither

Book Only

Both

Movie Only

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Siddalee Walker is the oldest of 4 children; the others are Little Shep, Lulu and Baylor.

Answer: Both

Through the hard times, Sidda often felt like a mother to the little ones. It is revealed in the book, however, that she only really remains in contact with her baby brother Baylor.

2. Vivienne is sent to "St. Augustine's School for Girls" when she becomes too much of a hassle for her mother.

Answer: Book Only

Incidentally, on the DVD's deleted scenes, Vivi actually was sent to "St. Augustine's", but the director decided to leave that portion of the movie on the cutting room floor.

3. Sidda is a playwright.

Answer: Movie Only

In the book, Sidda is a theatrical director.

4. In both the book and the movie, Vivi is devastated after Sidda gives a personal interview to a reporter.

Answer: True

Vivi is devastated after reading about herself as a tap dancing, boozing, abusing mother who dreamed of stardom but instead ended up a cotton farmer's wife with four kids.

5. Sidda goes to her friend's cabin to have some alone time to think, and to review "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood".

Answer: Book Only

In the movie, Sidda is "kidnapped" by the Ya-Yas and taken to one of their old vacation spots. In both the book and movie, however, it is while Sidda is away from her normal, everyday life that she ponders both her own, and her mother's pasts.

6. The Ya-Ya's attempt to bring Vivi from her home to the cabin where Sidda is staying, to discuss when Vivi "dropped her basket".

Answer: Movie Only

In both the book and the movie, the Ya-Ya's reveal to Sidda that the long period during which Vivi was away from her family was an involuntary committment to a mental hospital.

7. Vivi marries Shep after her husband Jack is killed during WWII.

Answer: Neither

Jack was in fact killed during WWII, but he and Vivi were not yet married. After years and years, Vivi still pines for Jack; she says that he was her one true love.

8. In both the book and the movie, the four young Ya-Ya's attend the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in Atlanta.

Answer: False

In both the book and the movie, Necie's mother did not allow her to go, as she felt that the girls' intended chaperone was not suitable.

9. The little numbered key inside the scrapbook reminds Sidda of the day her mother taught her to face her fears upon the back of an elephant.

Answer: Book Only

In the movie, Sidda's fears are met when she and Vivi take a ride on a small airplane.

10. Sidda postpones her engagement to Connor.

Answer: Both

In the book, Sidda feels that she doesn't quite know how to love properly. In the movie, Sidda states that she is afraid that she has the same type of meanness that she remembers in her mother; the meanness that caused Vivi to "beat the hell out of everyone and then leave."

11. It is revealed that Teensy's husband is gay.

Answer: Neither

In both the movie and book, Caro's husband Blaine is revealed to be gay; the book goes more into the individual relationships of the Ya-Ya's. After some initial anxiety, Caro finds that she actually likes Blaine's partner. Teensy and her husband Chick remain very much in love, after almost fifty years of marriage.

12. In their youth, the Ya-Ya's were arrested after stripping and going for a swim in a public water container.

Answer: Book Only

In the movie, Teensy, Necie, Vivi and Caro are arrested after Vivi and Caro take of their tops in Teensy's convertible. In both versions, the girls spent the night in jail.

13. In both the book and the movie, Sidda and Connor reconcile; there will be a wedding.

Answer: True

In the movie, Vivi tells Sidda that she'd really like to come to the wedding. Sidda replies that maybe they could have the wedding right there at Shep and Vivi's plantation, where Sidda had grown up with her brothers and sister.

14. Sidda is formally inducted into the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Answer: Movie Only

Sidda takes part in the ritual, as she has seen the Divine Secrets. The Ya-Ya's open up their old Ya-Ya wounds to once again become blood sisters, this time to include a member of the next generation.

15. Sidda and Connor marry in her father's sunflower fields.

Answer: Book Only

Shep tells Sidda everyone made fun of him for growing the extra sunflowers that year, but something had told him that it was the right thing to do.

Source: Author torioreo

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