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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Skeeter try to give Aibileen at Elizabeth Leefolt's house that Aibileen refuses to take in chapter 8?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Money.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) A new job.

3. How old was Treelore when he died?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Seventeen.

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

5. Why does Aibileen say in chapter 1 that Miss Leefolt cannot soothe her own baby?
(a) She's too skinny.
(b) She's too busy.
(c) She's too skittish.
(d) She's too inexperienced.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Skeeter admit caused her some disappointment at first in chapter 12?

2. What book does Skeeter steal from the white library in chapter 13 because it has been damaged and defamed?

3. What is the main topic of conversation at a Community Concerns meeting at Aibileen's church in chapter 16?

4. What does Aibileen tell Skeeter in chapter 11 her grandmother did for a living?

5. Who is Miss Myrna?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is killed blocks from Aibileen's home? What is the aftermath of this death?

2. Who is Skeeter Phelan? How does she know Hilly Holbrook? What did Hilly threaten to do in the beginning of chapter 5 to Skeeter?

3. Why does Aibileen begin telling Mae Mobley she is a smart, kind girl?

4. What does Celia spend most of her days doing? What is the result?

5. What are the interviews like between Skeeter and Minny? Who does Minny refuse to allow Skeeter to place in her book?

6. What letter does Skeeter receive in chapter 6 that inspires her to begin searching for a writing job and to find unique topics to write about?

7. What rules did Minny's mother tell her about working for a white woman? Which rule does Minny constantly break?

8. What does Skeeter show to Aibileen in chapter 14? Why does Aibileen later show this same thing to Minny?

9. How did Minny Jackson get an interview with Celia Foote? What happens at the interview?

10. Who does Aibileen go to work for at the beginning of the novel? What happened just a few months before she accepted this job?

(see the answer keys)

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