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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 does Minny forbid Skeeter to do in chapter 17?

2. What list does Mrs. Phelan start writing for Skeeter with the understanding that she is dying?

3. What does Celia tear from Hilly's dress that Hilly later insists Celia make a two hundred dollar donation to the Junior League to make up for?

4. Who is the Benefit to benefit?

5. What actress does Skeeter note is on the cover of Life magazine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who has Skeeter started dating in chapter 19? Why does she refuse to go to Biloxi with him?

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

5. What happens at Hilly Holbrook's house in chapter 22? Who is responsible?

6. 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?

7. In chapter 24, Minny fights with a naked man in the Foote's backyard. Who is the man? Why is Minny fighting him? What happens?

8. 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?

9. In chapter 28, Skeeter goes shopping and finally finds her own style. What style is that? What has inspired it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Minny Jackson? What does she do for a living? Why does she find herself searching for a job in the early chapters of the novel? What trouble does she run into while looking for a job? Why is this? Why does Minny blame herself for much of her job hunting trouble? Is Minny really to blame for her inability to find a job? Who does Minny serve the Terrible, Awful thing to? Why does she call it the Terrible, Awful? What did Minny do? Why did she do this? What was the consequence of this action? How does Minny feel about what she has done?

Essay Topic 2

Who hires Minny Jackson after she loses her job with Mrs. Walters? What role did Aibileen play in getting this job for Minny? Why are Aibileen and Minny afraid Hilly will learn of Minny's new job and do something to ruin it? What else is odd about this job? Why does Minny repeatedly remind her employer that she promised to tell her husband about hiring a maid? Why does the employer not want her husband to know about her hiring a maid? What is unusual about this employer's attitude toward Minny? How does Minny feel about this attitude? What does Minny attempt to teach her employer? How does that work out?

Essay Topic 3

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

1) Skeeter and Aibileen

2) Skeeter and Hilly

3) Hilly and Minny

4) Minny and Aibileen.

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