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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 go in chapter 19 to cool off in the overwhelming heat?
(a) The Cadillac.
(b) Hilly's house.
(c) The house.
(d) The local department store.

2. What new gadget has Celia Foote bought that Minny is impressed by in chapter 30?
(a) A garbage disposal.
(b) A self propelled vaccuum cleaner.
(c) A television remote control.
(d) An automatic dishwasher.

3. Who is the Benefit to benefit?
(a) The local schools.
(b) The Starving Children of Ethiopia.
(c) Poor Starving Children of Africa.
(d) The poor of Jackson.

4. What does Hilly announce at the League meeting in chapter 26 that officially cuts Skeeter out of her final tenuous attachment to Jackson social society?
(a) Hilly has voted to end the newsletter.
(b) Hilly has decided to disban the Jackson League.
(c) Hilly will take over as editor of the newsletter.
(d) Hilly has thrown Skeeter out of the League.

5. Who was Carl Roberts?
(a) A friend of Stuart Whitworth.
(b) A young black man lynched from speaking out against the Mississippi governor.
(c) A black man jailed for a sit in at a lunch counter.
(d) A white activist in Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. How common does Aibileen tell Skeeter it was for women to give up their children to care for white families?

2. With whom does Skeeter plan to share the advance money and subsequent royalty payments with?

3. Why does Skeeter tell her mother in chapter 28 that most of the holiday parties have been canceled?

4. Where is the Junior League Benefit for Children held in chapter 25?

5. What modern convenience does Skeeter's mother refuse to have added to the house as Skeeter explains in chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Hilly Holbrook wins Minny's chocolate pie in the silent auction at the Benefit. Who bid on the pie for Hilly? Who does she think bid on it for her?

3. What does Celia tell her husband, Johnny Foote, that prompts him to tell Minny she will have a job for life in chapter 30?

4. In chapter 28, Skeeter goes shopping and finally finds her own style. What style is that? What has inspired it?

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

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

7. What does Dr. Neal tell Skeeter in chapter 28 that her mother is suffering? What are her prospects?

8. 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?

9. In chapter 18, Minny finds Celia in the bathroom of her bedroom. What has happened to Celia? How does this explain her odd behavior since Minny came to work for her?

10. What does Skeeter learn about Yule May in chapter 19? What does the letter from Yule May to Skeeter say? What is the result of this situation?

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