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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. Who is waiting for Skeeter as she arrives home at the end of chapter 27?
(a) Hilly.
(b) Dr. Neal.
(c) Stuart.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

3. Who calls Minny at home in the beginning of chapter 26 to speak about Celia Foote?
(a) Johnny Foote.
(b) Skeeter Phelan.
(c) Aibileen.
(d) Hilly Holbrook.

4. How much time has passed between chapter 28 and chapter 29?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Six months.
(c) A month.
(d) A year.

5. What does Minny forbid Skeeter to do in chapter 17?
(a) Call Celia Foote.
(b) Print stories about Hilly Holbrook.
(c) Discuss her family business.
(d) Go to the Benefit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Skeeter push Stuart to tell her about his ex-fiancee in chapter 19 that causes some tension between them?

2. What new gadget has Celia Foote bought that Minny is impressed by in chapter 30?

3. What war does Skeeter see a news report about on the television in chapter 19?

4. What does Celia have delivered to the house that Minny thinks is homemade alcohol?

5. What does Celia Foote threaten to do in the aftermath of the disaster at the Benefit?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In chapter 22, it is Mae Mobley's birthday. What kind of cake does Aibileen want to make? Why? What kind does Elizabeth Leefolt insist on Aibileen making?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What are the secret stories that Aibileen tells Mae Mobley? Why does Aibileen tell these stories?

9. 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?

10. What does Minny insist on adding to her section of the book? For what reason?

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