View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
(d) To Kill a Mockingbird.

2. What political office is Hilly's husband running for as she announces in chapter 12?
(a) Mayor.
(b) State senate.
(c) Congress.
(d) Governor.

3. Why does Minny tell Aibileen she needs to find a new job in chapter 2?
(a) Hilly fired Minny for not feeding her mother.
(b) Hilly wants Minny to come to work for her so she told lies to Mrs. Walters about Minny.
(c) Hilly fired Minny for stealing.
(d) Hilly wants to put Mrs. Walters in a nursing home.

4. What is the main topic of conversation at a Community Concerns meeting at Aibileen's church in chapter 16?
(a) Skeeter Phelan's book.
(b) Racial tensions in Jackson.
(c) The March on Washington.
(d) Medgar Evers' murder.

5. On what day is Celia supposed to tell her husband that she has hired Minny as their maid?
(a) Valentine's Day.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) New Year's Day.
(d) Christmas Eve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilly give to Aibileen after a bridge party in chapter 12?

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

3. What one housekeeping skill is Celia Foote very bad at, as revealed in chapter 3?

4. Where does Hilly Holbrook invite Mrs. Leefolt and Mae Mobley to go in chapter 15?

5. What item in the living room of the Foote residence frightens Minny?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the first interview between Skeeter and Aibileen go? What does Skeeter think will happen next?

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

4. What does Hilly Holbrook complain about at Elizabeth Leefolt's? How does this lead to the Leefolt's building a new bathroom in the carport of their home?

5. Why does Aibileen begin telling Mae Mobley she is a smart, kind girl?

6. Why does Skeeter begin visiting Aibileen at Mrs. Leefolt's house? What does Skeeter talk to Aibileen about?

7. What does Aibileen ask of Skeeter during their sixth session together working on Skeeter's book?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,265 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample