View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Skeeter apply before in her final days at college?

2. How long have Hilly, Skeeter, and Elizabeth been friends?

3. Who lives on Longleaf Plantation?

4. What book idea has Skeeter proposed to Mrs. Stein in chapter 8?

5. What does Aibileen tell Skeeter in chapter 11 her grandmother did for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Hilly Holbrook ask Aibileen that she feels she must answer honestly for Mae Mobley's sake? Why does Hilly ask this question of Aibileen?

5. Who sets up the first date between Stuart Whitworth and Skeeter? How does it go?

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

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

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

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

10. What are the interviews like between Skeeter and Minny? Who does Minny refuse to allow Skeeter to place in her book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What does Skeeter do that causes her to lose all her friends? Why did Skeeter do this? What did it prove? Did it change anything? How does Skeeter feel about this change in her social life? Is Skeeter saddened by the loss of her friends? Did Skeeter truly consider Hilly her friend? How do Aibileen and Minny feel about what has happened to Skeeter? How does this treatment of Skeeter by those in Jackson force her to make a life altering decision? How does this ousting by the social caste compare to Celia Foote's place in Jackson society? Why do you think the author felt the need to create two such parallel characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Hilly's bathroom initiative. What is it? What is the point behind it? Why would Hilly think that sharing a bathroom with a black person could lead to the exchange of deadly diseases? Why does Hilly pressure Mrs. Leefolt into building a bathroom in the car port for Aibileen? How does Aibileen feel about this? What happens when Aibileen takes Mae Mobley into the new bathroom constructed for Aibileen's use? What does Mrs. Leefolt do when Mae Mobley attempts to use the bathroom in the carport? How does this inspire Aibileen to begins sharing secret stories with Mae Mobley?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,476 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample