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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. Why does Aibileen say in chapter 1 that Miss Leefolt cannot soothe her own baby?
(a) She's too skinny.
(b) She's too skittish.
(c) She's too inexperienced.
(d) She's too busy.

2. What threat did Hilly make against Skeeter early in the novel that causes her angst in chapter 5?
(a) To cancel the date she has planned with Stuart Whitworth.
(b) To kick her out of the Junior League if she does not publish the bathroom initiative.
(c) To throw her out of the bridge game if she does not stop cheating.
(d) To tell her mother she refuses to follow instructions in editing the League newsletter.

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

4. Why does Mr. Leefolt tell Mae Mobley she will not go to college in chapter 2?
(a) Mrs. Leefolt overspent on a shopping trip.
(b) Mrs. Leefolt is spending unnecessary money building a bathroom for Aibileen.
(c) Mrs. Leefolt hired a maid they cannot afford.
(d) Mrs. Leefolt donated too much to a Junior League charity.

5. Why have nearly half a dozen maids refused to work for Celia Foote, as revealed in chapter 3?
(a) She is too odd.
(b) She does not offer to pay enough.
(c) The house is too large and it is too much work.
(d) She refuses to tell her husband about hiring a maid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Hilly express distaste at using Mrs. Leefolt's guest bathroom in chapter 1?

3. What is the Shinalator?

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

5. What does Aibileen promise all the women she approaches about helping with Skeeter's book will be done to protect their identities?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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?

10. 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?

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