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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item in the living room of the Foote residence frightens Minny?

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

3. What is Skeeter's christian name?

4. Who does Hilly Holbrook set up a date for Skeeter with in chapter 5?

5. Who shows up at Skeeter's door and surprises her in chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is Constantine? What does Skeeter think happened to her?

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

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

5. What was Treelore hoping to do before his death? How did Aibileen feel about this?

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

7. Who is Yule May? What does she want to speak to Aibileen about at a meeting at their church?

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

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

10. What does Miss Celia do that Minny finds odd? Why does Minny have trouble teaching Miss Celia to cook?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens at the first interview between Skeeter and Aibileen? Why does Aibileen have trouble telling her stories to Skeeter? Why does Aibileen suggest she begin writing down her stories? How does Skeeter react to this? Why is Skeeter reluctant to let Aibileen do any of the writing? Why does she eventually change her mind? What does Skeeter do with Aibileen's chapter for the book? How does this lead to a deadline for the book? What is Aibileen's role in the writing of the book after she has told her own stories?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following relationships in an essay using quotes to support your conclusions:

1) Skeeter and her mother

2) Skeeter and Stuart

3) Stuart and his father

4) Hilly and Elizabeth

5) Hilly and Skeeter.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following relationships in an essay using quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Skeeter and Aibileen

2) Skeeter and Hilly

3) Hilly and Minny

4) Minny and Aibileen.

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