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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?
(a) The risk of the transmission of disease.
(b) The blacks would harm the whites.
(c) Blacks are not smart enough to keep up with whites.
(d) They are too different.

4. Where does Hilly Holbrook invite Mrs. Leefolt and Mae Mobley to go in chapter 15?
(a) Robert E. Lee hotel.
(b) Broadmoore pool.
(c) Blackshire Club.
(d) Jackson Country Club.

5. Who is Patricia van Devender?
(a) Stuart Whitworth's former fiancee.
(b) William Holbrook's cousin.
(c) Johnny Foote's mother-in-law.
(d) Stuart Farnsworth's sister.

6. What does Aibileen promise all the women she approaches about helping with Skeeter's book will be done to protect their identities?
(a) All names and professions will not be changed.
(b) The book will never be published.
(c) All names and locations will be changed.
(d) The book will never be sold in Jackson.

7. What book does Skeeter steal from the white library in chapter 13 because it has been damaged and defamed?
(a) The Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(c) Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

8. For what act does Mrs. Leefolt punish Mae Mobley in chapter 2 that makes Aibileen feel outrage for the child?
(a) Pulling the phone out of her mother's hand.
(b) Breaking one of her toys.
(c) Spilling flour on the floor.
(d) Tearing up her mother's stationary.

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

10. Why have nearly half a dozen maids refused to work for Celia Foote, as revealed in chapter 3?
(a) She refuses to tell her husband about hiring a maid.
(b) The house is too large and it is too much work.
(c) She does not offer to pay enough.
(d) She is too odd.

11. What chronic condition does Skeeter's mother suffer from at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Multiple sclerosis.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Cystic fibrosis.
(d) Stomach ulcers.

12. Why does Celia Foote refuse to tell her husband she has hired a maid in chapter 3?
(a) She is afriad he will not like the money she is spending on the maid.
(b) She is afraid he will not like having a black maid in the house.
(c) She does not want him to know she is afraid to be alone.
(d) She wants him to think she can care for him and the house herself.

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

14. What item does Skeeter accidentally leave at behind in chapter 13 when she rushes out of the League meeting?
(a) Her car keys.
(b) Her satchel.
(c) Her coat.
(d) Her purse.

15. Why does Hilly express distaste at using Mrs. Leefolt's guest bathroom in chapter 1?
(a) It is too small.
(b) It is dirty.
(c) It is the same bathroom the black maid, Aibileen, uses.
(d) It is the same bathroom the yard man uses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits the Phelans in chapter 9?

2. Who does Aibileen recommend Minny to, lying about Elizabeth Leefolt recommending her as a good maid?

3. Who is Mrs. Stein?

4. What job did Skeeter apply before in her final days at college?

5. Where does Skeeter get a job in chapter 6?

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