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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What item in the living room of the Foote residence frightens Minny?
(a) A blood colored stain on the shag carpet.
(b) A Confederate pistol.
(c) A full size, stuffed grizzly bear.
(d) A Confederate flag.

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

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

5. 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) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

6. What milestone has Mae Mobley entered in chapter 7?
(a) She just began to talk.
(b) She just began to walk.
(c) The beginning of preschool.
(d) Potty training time.

7. Who visits the Phelans in chapter 9?
(a) Elizabeth Leefolt.
(b) Constantine, their former maid.
(c) Hilly Holbrook.
(d) Carlton, Skeeter's brother.

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

9. Who is Mrs. Stein?
(a) A friend of Skeeter's mother.
(b) An editor for Harper & Row.
(c) A neighbor to Longleaf.
(d) A maid working in Jackson.

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

11. Where does Skeeter get a job in chapter 6?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) The Jackson Journal.
(c) The Jackson Daily News.
(d) The Junior League newsletter.

12. Who does Hilly Holbrook set up a date for Skeeter with in chapter 5?
(a) Johnny Foote.
(b) Stuart Townsend.
(c) Stuart Whitworth.
(d) William Holbrook.

13. 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) Tearing up her mother's stationary.
(c) Breaking one of her toys.
(d) Pulling the phone out of her mother's hand.

14. Who lives on Longleaf Plantation?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Mrs. Leefolt.
(c) Skeeter and her family.
(d) Celia Foote.

15. What point of view is used in this novel?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of party does Mrs. Leefolt have in the first chapter of the book?

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

4. Who, in chapter 16, approaches Aibileen at a Community Concerns Meeting at her church about Skeeter's book?

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

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