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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have Hilly, Skeeter, and Elizabeth been friends?
(a) Since elementary school.
(b) Since infancy.
(c) Since high school.
(d) Since college.

2. What does Skeeter's mother nag her about in chapter 5?
(a) Getting a haircut.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Getting a home of her own.
(d) Getting a job.

3. What ailment does Mae Mobley suffer when Aibileen first begins to care for her?
(a) Colic.
(b) Jaundice.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) Measles.

4. What is Hotstack?
(a) A store in Jackson.
(b) A new magazine in Mississippi.
(c) A type of dish in Mississippi.
(d) A black community near Longleaf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What point of view is used in this novel?

2. Why does Mr. Leefolt tell Mae Mobley she will not go to college in chapter 2?

3. Why have nearly half a dozen maids refused to work for Celia Foote, as revealed in chapter 3?

4. What threat did Hilly make against Skeeter early in the novel that causes her angst in chapter 5?

5. What item does Skeeter take to carrying around in chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is killed blocks from Aibileen's home? What is the aftermath of this death?

2. Who is Skeeter Phelan? How does she know Hilly Holbrook? What did Hilly threaten to do in the beginning of chapter 5 to Skeeter?

3. Who is Yule May? What does she want to speak to Aibileen about at a meeting at their church?

4. Who sets up the first date between Stuart Whitworth and Skeeter? How does it go?

5. What rules did Minny's mother tell her about working for a white woman? Which rule does Minny constantly break?

6. What are the interviews like between Skeeter and Minny? Who does Minny refuse to allow Skeeter to place in her book?

7. How did Minny Jackson get an interview with Celia Foote? What happens at the interview?

8. What does Miss Celia do that Minny finds odd? Why does Minny have trouble teaching Miss Celia to cook?

9. What does Aibileen write in her small notebook? How did she get into this habit?

10. Who does Aibileen go to work for at the beginning of the novel? What happened just a few months before she accepted this job?

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