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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. Who is Pascagoula?

2. Why does one of Aibileen's grown white children tell her he still does not drink coffee in chapter 7?

3. Why does Aibileen say in chapter 1 that Miss Leefolt cannot soothe her own baby?

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

5. Why have nearly half a dozen maids refused to work for Celia Foote, as revealed in chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Skeeter Phelan? How does she know Hilly Holbrook? What did Hilly threaten to do in the beginning of chapter 5 to Skeeter?

3. 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?

4. What worries Minny about the day that Celia Foote will tell her husband that she has hired a maid? How does Johnny Foote finally find out about Minny?

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

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

7. What does Aibileen ask of Skeeter during their sixth session together working on Skeeter's book?

8. Who is Constantine? What does Skeeter think happened to her?

9. Why does Aibileen begin telling Mae Mobley she is a smart, kind girl?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens at the first interview between Skeeter and Aibileen? Why does Aibileen have trouble telling her stories to Skeeter? Why does Aibileen suggest she begin writing down her stories? How does Skeeter react to this? Why is Skeeter reluctant to let Aibileen do any of the writing? Why does she eventually change her mind? What does Skeeter do with Aibileen's chapter for the book? How does this lead to a deadline for the book? What is Aibileen's role in the writing of the book after she has told her own stories?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Minny think Celia is crazy? What does Celia spend her days doing? How is this different from the behavior of the other women Minny has worked for? Why does Celia escape into the second floor of her home several times a day? What does Minny think she is doing up there? What is Celia really doing up there? What is the cause of Celia's odd behaviors? Why do none of the women in Jackson accept Celia into their social circle? What does Celia believe the problem is? How does she go about fixing it? What happens? What story does Minny tell Celia that appears to help her understand the women of Jackson better?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Aibileen? What does she mean when she says that she has raised seventeen children? Why does Aibileen not remain with these kids until adulthood? What changes in the children that Aibileen finds hard to deal with? How could this frequent change in employment lead to trouble for Aibileen? What happened shortly before Aibileen went to work for the Leefolts? How did this tragedy come about? How has it impacted Aibileen? How did this tragedy make Aibileen more open to falling in love with Mae Mobley? How does Mrs. Leefolt treat her only child? What causes this? What does Aibileen do about it?

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