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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. Who did Celia's husband date before he married Celia?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Skeeter Phelan.
(c) Lou Anne Templeton.
(d) Elizabeth Leefolt.

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

3. What item does Skeeter take to carrying around in chapter 11?
(a) A black attache case with a broken latch.
(b) A green army knapsack.
(c) A red satchel that her grandmother once used for her gardening tools.
(d) A large canvas backpack.

4. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?
(a) Interviews with black maids about their families.
(b) Interviews with southern women about their families.
(c) Interviews with black maids about their white employers.
(d) Interviews with white housewives about their black maids.

5. Who gave Skeeter her nickname?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother, Carlton.
(d) Constantine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aibileen write in a small blue notepad?

2. How many babies does Aibileen tell the reader she has cared for in her career?

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

4. Who is Pascagoula?

5. Who is Mrs. Stein?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Skeeter show to Aibileen in chapter 14? Why does Aibileen later show this same thing to Minny?

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

4. In chapter 10, Celia locks herself in the bathroom and yells at Minny when she comes to change the bedsheets. What does this and other odd behaviors say about Celia?

5. What worries Minny about the day that Celia Foote will tell her husband that she has hired a maid? How does Johnny Foote finally find out about Minny?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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