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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 war does Skeeter see a news report about on the television in chapter 19?
(a) War on drugs.
(b) World War II.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) Korean War.

2. What does Minny say God would have made people if he had intended for whites and blacks to spend a large amount of time together?
(a) Color blind.
(b) All the same size.
(c) Less prone to bad moods.
(d) More open minded.

3. Why does Skeeter think the maids in the state senator's house are looking at her oddly in chapter 20?
(a) They know about her book.
(b) They dislike her clothing.
(c) They dislike her hair.
(d) They think she is not good enough for Stuart.

4. What name does Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny chose for the book they are writing?
(a) Southern Domestics.
(b) Southern Help.
(c) Colored Domestics and their Southern Families.
(d) The Help.

5. What does Skeeter's mother announce to her at the end of Chapter 28?
(a) She has decided not to die.
(b) She has decided not to let Skeeter marry Stuart.
(c) She has decided to seek alternative treatments.
(d) She has decided to commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Aibileen think Skeeter will use for the toilet confusion at Hilly Holbrook's house?

2. Who was Carl Roberts?

3. What new pill does Skeeter read about in the newspaper in chapter 19 that is hailed as a pill 'to help women cope with everyday challenges'?

4. What ailment does Minny's son, Benny, suffer?

5. Why does Skeeter refuse to tell her mother of her break up with Stuart?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who has Skeeter started dating in chapter 19? Why does she refuse to go to Biloxi with him?

2. Who shows up at Elizabeth Leefolt's door in chapter 23 to buy tickets to the League's Children's Benefit? Why is this potentially a disaster for Minny and Aibileen?

3. Why does Skeeter feel it is important to change the location and names in the book she is writing?

4. Why does Minny feel that Celia Foote does not understand the line between whites and blacks?

5. How are most of the women at the Benefit dressed? How does Celia Foote stand out?

6. What does Hilly tell Skeeter to publish in the League newsletter or she will throw her out of the league?

7. What is the Terrible Awful? Why does Minny tell it to Celia in chapter 26?

8. What television show discusses Skeeter's book in chapter 29? What is the result?

9. In chapter 24, Minny fights with a naked man in the Foote's backyard. Who is the man? Why is Minny fighting him? What happens?

10. What begins to happen throughout town as people begin to read Skeeter's book?

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