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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. What item does Skeeter accidentally leave at behind in chapter 13 when she rushes out of the League meeting?
(a) Her car keys.
(b) Her satchel.
(c) Her purse.
(d) Her coat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Stein?

2. Who has Skeeter pinpointed as her first interviewee for her book in chapter 8?

3. Who, in chapter 16, approaches Aibileen at a Community Concerns Meeting at her church about Skeeter's book?

4. What is the Shinalator?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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