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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Elizabeth Leefolt announce to Skeeter and Hilly in chapter 12?
(a) She is giving Mae Mobley up for adoption.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is firing Aibileen.
(d) She is divorcing Raleigh.

2. Who is Pascagoula?
(a) The Leefolts' maid.
(b) The Footes' maid.
(c) The Holbrooks' maid.
(d) The Phelans' maid.

3. 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 sold in Jackson.
(b) All names and professions will not be changed.
(c) The book will never be published.
(d) All names and locations will be changed.

4. What is the main topic of conversation at a Community Concerns meeting at Aibileen's church in chapter 16?
(a) Medgar Evers' murder.
(b) Racial tensions in Jackson.
(c) The March on Washington.
(d) Skeeter Phelan's book.

5. What does Mrs. Leefolt tell Mae Mobley about using Aibileen's toilet in chapter 7?
(a) She will spoil Aibileen's privacy.
(b) She will get injured walking to the carport.
(c) She will get some terrible disease.
(d) She will fall into the comode.

6. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?
(a) Interviews with black maids about their families.
(b) Interviews with southern women about their families.
(c) Interviews with white housewives about their black maids.
(d) Interviews with black maids about their white employers.

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

8. What job did Skeeter apply before in her final days at college?
(a) Copywriter for a New York magazine.
(b) Editor for a New York magazine.
(c) Copywriter for Harper & Row.
(d) Editor for Harper & Row.

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

10. With whom does Skeeter have a date in chapter 9?
(a) Stuart Farnsworth.
(b) William Holbrook.
(c) Johnny Foote.
(d) Stuart Whitworth.

11. What does Aibileen tell Skeeter in chapter 11 her grandmother did for a living?
(a) She was a teacher.
(b) She was a maid.
(c) She was a wet nurse.
(d) She was a house slave.

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

13. What deadline is Skeeter originally given for her book in chapter 12?
(a) February.
(b) March.
(c) December.
(d) January.

14. 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 cancel the date she has planned with Stuart Whitworth.
(c) To kick her out of the Junior League if she does not publish the bathroom initiative.
(d) To throw her out of the bridge game if she does not stop cheating.

15. What does Hilly give to Aibileen after a bridge party in chapter 12?
(a) Old clothes for charity.
(b) Old clothes from her mother's house.
(c) A collection of mismatched silver.
(d) A stack of old books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailment does Mae Mobley suffer when Aibileen first begins to care for her?

2. In chapter 15, who accuses Aibileen of not teaching Mae Mobley manners?

3. What is Skeeter doing when she runs into Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt in chapter 15?

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

5. What chronic condition does Skeeter's mother suffer from at the beginning of the novel?

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