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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 point of view is used in this novel?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) First person.
(c) Third person.
(d) Second person.

2. What does Aibileen reveal in chapter 12 about the kitchen in the governor's mansion?
(a) It has a separate refrigerator for the black workers' food.
(b) It has a separate set of dishes for the black workers.
(c) It has a separate bathroom for the domestic help.
(d) It has a separate eating area for the domestic help.

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

4. Who is Mrs. Stein?
(a) A maid working in Jackson.
(b) An editor for Harper & Row.
(c) A neighbor to Longleaf.
(d) A friend of Skeeter's mother.

5. What kind of party does Mrs. Leefolt have in the first chapter of the book?
(a) Tupperware party.
(b) Cocktail party.
(c) Bridge party.
(d) Birthday party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hotstack?

2. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?

3. On what day is Celia supposed to tell her husband that she has hired Minny as their maid?

4. What news does Elizabeth Leefolt announce to Skeeter and Hilly in chapter 12?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Constantine? What does Skeeter think happened to her?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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