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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main topic of conversation at a Community Concerns meeting at Aibileen's church in chapter 16?

2. What political office is Hilly's husband running for as she announces in chapter 12?

3. What deadline is Skeeter originally given for her book in chapter 12?

4. What item does Skeeter accidentally leave at behind in chapter 13 when she rushes out of the League meeting?

5. In chapter 15, who accuses Aibileen of not teaching Mae Mobley manners?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the first interview between Skeeter and Aibileen go? What does Skeeter think will happen next?

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

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

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

5. What does Aibileen write in her small notebook? How did she get into this habit?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following in an essay using examples or quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Theme

2) Structure

3) Point of View

4) Language.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following themes in an essay using quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Racism

2) Family

3) Social Expectations

4) Ambition versus Fear.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Minny's home life. How does Minny's husband treat her? Why does Minny not stand up for herself to her husband as she does with the white women who employ her? Why does Leroy throw a dish at Minny's forehead? What does Minny tell Celia about this injury? Why does Leroy later lock Minny in the house and threaten to burn the house down around her? What does Minny do after this happens? What does Aibileen recommend Minny do in reaction to Leroy's behavior? Does she? How does this suggest a happy ending for Minny at the end of the novel?

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