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

2. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?
(a) They are too different.
(b) The risk of the transmission of disease.
(c) The blacks would harm the whites.
(d) Blacks are not smart enough to keep up with whites.

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

4. In chapter 15, who accuses Aibileen of not teaching Mae Mobley manners?
(a) Mrs. Walters.
(b) Mrs. Leefolt.
(c) Hilly Holbrook.
(d) Mrs. Leefolt's mother.

5. How many babies does Aibileen tell the reader she has cared for in her career?
(a) 17.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much younger than Aibileen is Minny Jackson?

2. Who does Skeeter ask for advice in regards to her new job in chapter 6?

3. Who does Skeeter ask Aibileen about at the end of chapter 1?

4. What gesture would Constantine use to let Skeeter knew she wanted her to pay close attention to her?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Celia spend most of her days doing? What is the result?

2. Why does Skeeter try to pay money to Aibileen in chapter 8? How does Aibileen react?

3. What was Treelore hoping to do before his death? How did Aibileen feel about this?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Hilly Holbrook ask Aibileen that she feels she must answer honestly for Mae Mobley's sake? Why does Hilly ask this question of Aibileen?

9. What letter does Skeeter receive in chapter 6 that inspires her to begin searching for a writing job and to find unique topics to write about?

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

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