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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What threat did Hilly make against Skeeter early in the novel that causes her angst in chapter 5?
(a) To kick her out of the Junior League if she does not publish the bathroom initiative.
(b) To cancel the date she has planned with Stuart Whitworth.
(c) To tell her mother she refuses to follow instructions in editing the League newsletter.
(d) To throw her out of the bridge game if she does not stop cheating.

2. What does Aibileen reveal in chapter 12 about the kitchen in the governor's mansion?
(a) It has a separate bathroom for the domestic help.
(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 set of dishes for the black workers.

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

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

5. Who is Miss Myrna?
(a) A maid in Jackson.
(b) Skeeter's new boss.
(c) The name of a weekly love advice column.
(d) The name of a weekly housecleaning column.

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

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

8. 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) A new job.
(d) Jewelry.

9. What one housekeeping skill is Celia Foote very bad at, as revealed in chapter 3?
(a) Vaccuuming.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Polishing silver.
(d) Cleaning.

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

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

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

14. Why does one of Aibileen's grown white children tell her he still does not drink coffee in chapter 7?
(a) She told him it would stunt his growth.
(b) She told him it would give him ulcers.
(c) She told him it would make him turn colored.
(d) She told him it would make his asthma worse.

15. 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 refuses to tell her husband about hiring a maid.
(d) She does not offer to pay enough.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Skeeter doing when she runs into Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt in chapter 15?

3. What political office is Hilly's husband running for as she announces in chapter 12?

4. What did Robert Brown do for Aibileen in the aftermath of Treelore's death?

5. What deadline is Skeeter originally given for her book in chapter 12?

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