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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much does Skeeter tell Aibileen Harper and Row has agreed to pay as an advance for the book?
(a) Eight hundred dollars.
(b) Sixty five dollars.
(c) A thousand dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

2. Why is Mae Mobley spending less time with Aibileen in chapter 29?
(a) She has moved in with her grandmother.
(b) Aibileen no longer works for the Leefolts.
(c) She has begun preschool.
(d) Aibileen spends more time with baby Ross.

3. Why does Stuart take back the marriage proposal he makes to Skeeter in chapter 28?
(a) He has just learned her mother is dying.
(b) Hilly tells him about Skeeter's possession of the Jim Crow laws.
(c) He has decided he does not like her sense of style.
(d) He claims he does not know her after she tells him about her book.

4. What does Mrs. Phelan tell the Whitworths Skeeter has been writing about in chapter 20?
(a) The civil rights movement.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Black maids working in white households in the south.
(d) Housekeeping hints.

5. Who does Skeeter reveal she paid twenty-five dollars each to put the thirty plus toilets on Hilly's front lawn?
(a) Aibileen's cousin and nephew.
(b) Pascagoula's brothers.
(c) Stuart and her brother.
(d) Her own brother and a friend.

6. What modern convenience does Skeeter's mother refuse to have added to the house as Skeeter explains in chapter 19?
(a) Air conditioning.
(b) Fax.
(c) Refrigeration.
(d) Convection oven.

7. Why does Skeeter tell her mother in chapter 28 that most of the holiday parties have been canceled?
(a) Out of a lack of facilities.
(b) Out of a lack of money.
(c) Out of respect for the death of President Kennedy.
(d) Out of respect for the family of Medgar Evers.

8. What does Aibileen's church give her to celebrate the publication of the book?
(a) A book signed by everyone in the church.
(b) A new Bible.
(c) A plaque with her name on it.
(d) A painted portrait.

9. What does Skeeter feel the Whitworth house is a museum in honor of in chapter 20?
(a) The War Between the States.
(b) Mississippi State.
(c) His dead grandfather.
(d) His parents.

10. How does Celia know in chapter 17 that Minny knows how to play bridge?
(a) Mrs. Walters told her they used to play together.
(b) Minny told Johnny Foote she knew how.
(c) They played the game once when Minny first came to work for her.
(d) She told her.

11. What does Skeeter's mother announce to her at the end of Chapter 28?
(a) She has decided to seek alternative treatments.
(b) She has decided not to die.
(c) She has decided not to let Skeeter marry Stuart.
(d) She has decided to commit suicide.

12. What name has Aibileen chosen to use in the book she is writing with Skeeter?
(a) Abilene Johnson.
(b) Margret Green.
(c) Rebecca Jones.
(d) Sarah Ross.

13. Why does Skeeter think the maids in the state senator's house are looking at her oddly in chapter 20?
(a) They dislike her hair.
(b) They dislike her clothing.
(c) They know about her book.
(d) They think she is not good enough for Stuart.

14. What does Celia have delivered to the house that Minny thinks is homemade alcohol?
(a) A catching tonic.
(b) Hair tonic.
(c) A vitamin tonic.
(d) A celery tonic.

15. What new pill does Skeeter read about in the newspaper in chapter 19 that is hailed as a pill 'to help women cope with everyday challenges'?
(a) Midol.
(b) Prozac.
(c) Valium.
(d) Metamucil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Celia Foote use to protect Minny from a crazy, naked man in chapter 24?

2. What does Mae Mobley do when she sees the toilets on Hilly Holbrook's front lawn in chapter 22?

3. What appliance does Mrs. Phelan finally allow installed in her house in chapter 21 after receiving doctors orders to do so?

4. Why does Minny think she no longer has a job with the Footes at the end of chapter 17?

5. In chapter 27, why does Skeeter claim she continues to go to League meetings?

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