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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Aibileen write in a small blue notepad?
(a) Her prayers.
(b) Her thoughts and emotions.
(c) Her grocery lists.
(d) Her fictional stories.

5. What kind of party does Mrs. Leefolt have in the first chapter of the book?
(a) Bridge party.
(b) Birthday party.
(c) Cocktail party.
(d) Tupperware party.

6. Who, in chapter 16, approaches Aibileen at a Community Concerns Meeting at her church about Skeeter's book?
(a) Yule May.
(b) Minny.
(c) Goldella.
(d) Louvenia.

7. Who does Skeeter ask for advice in regards to her new job in chapter 6?
(a) Minny.
(b) Hilly.
(c) Aibileen.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

9. What does Aibileen reveal in chapter 12 about the kitchen in the governor's mansion?
(a) It has a separate set of dishes for the black workers.
(b) It has a separate eating area for the domestic help.
(c) It has a separate refrigerator for the black workers' food.
(d) It has a separate bathroom for the domestic help.

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

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

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

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

14. Who does Skeeter ask Aibileen about at the end of chapter 1?
(a) Minny, Mrs. Walters' maid.
(b) Treelore, Aibileen's son.
(c) Constantine, her family's former maid.
(d) Louvenia, Lou Anne's maid.

15. In chapter 15, who accuses Aibileen of not teaching Mae Mobley manners?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Mrs. Leefolt.
(c) Mrs. Leefolt's mother.
(d) Mrs. Walters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits the Phelans in chapter 9?

2. What general shares a name with a popular hotel and restaurant in this book?

3. What does Aibileen tell Minny in chapter 2 that Hilly Hobrook accused her of?

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

5. Why does Aibileen say in chapter 1 that Miss Leefolt cannot soothe her own baby?

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