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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. What milestone has Mae Mobley entered in chapter 7?
(a) Potty training time.
(b) She just began to talk.
(c) The beginning of preschool.
(d) She just began to walk.

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

3. What does Aibileen tell Minny in chapter 2 that Hilly Hobrook accused her of?
(a) Not cleaning properly.
(b) Not feeding Mrs. Walters.
(c) Stealing silver.
(d) Stealing jewelry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Skeeter try to give Aibileen at Elizabeth Leefolt's house that Aibileen refuses to take in chapter 8?

3. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?

4. What are Yule May, Hilly Holbrook's maid, and her husband saving up for as she tells Aibileen in chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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