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

2. Who lives on Longleaf Plantation?

3. How many interviews with maids does the editor suggest Skeeter include in her book?

4. Who gave Skeeter her nickname?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is killed blocks from Aibileen's home? What is the aftermath of this death?

3. How did Minny Jackson get an interview with Celia Foote? What happens at the interview?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who is Skeeter Phelan? How does Skeeter become acquainted with Aibileen? What does Skeeter ask Aibileen to do for her? How does this cause Skeeter to come up with an idea for a nonfiction book? Why does Skeeter ask Aibileen to help with this book? What does Aibileen do to help Skeeter? How does Skeeter feel about the writing of this book and Aibileen's role in it? Why is this so important to Skeeter? Why does Skeeter not get married and have children like her friends? Why does Skeeter not marry Stuart? What clues should have led Skeeter to realize Stuart would not have been supportive of her choice to write this book?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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