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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Leefolt tell Mae Mobley about using Aibileen's toilet in chapter 7?
(a) She will spoil Aibileen's privacy.
(b) She will get some terrible disease.
(c) She will get injured walking to the carport.
(d) She will fall into the comode.

2. How long have Hilly, Skeeter, and Elizabeth been friends?
(a) Since college.
(b) Since high school.
(c) Since infancy.
(d) Since elementary school.

3. What gesture would Constantine use to let Skeeter knew she wanted her to pay close attention to her?
(a) She would tap her finger on her own chin.
(b) She would tap herself on the chest.
(c) She would cup Skeeter's chin in her hand.
(d) She would press her thumb into Skeeter's palm.

4. What does Skeeter's mother nag her about in chapter 5?
(a) Getting a haircut.
(b) Getting a home of her own.
(c) Getting a job.
(d) Getting married.

5. Who does Skeeter ask for advice in regards to her new job in chapter 6?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Hilly.
(c) Minny.
(d) Aibileen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Patricia van Devender?

3. Why does Hilly claim that blacks and white should never attend the same school together in chapter 14?

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

5. Who has Skeeter pinpointed as her first interviewee for her book in chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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