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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. Who lives on Longleaf Plantation?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Skeeter and her family.
(c) Mrs. Leefolt.
(d) Celia Foote.
2. Who did Celia's husband date before he married Celia?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Elizabeth Leefolt.
(c) Skeeter Phelan.
(d) Lou Anne Templeton.
3. What general shares a name with a popular hotel and restaurant in this book?
(a) Stonewall Jackson.
(b) Robert E. Lee.
(c) George Patton.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.
4. Why does Hilly express distaste at using Mrs. Leefolt's guest bathroom in chapter 1?
(a) It is the same bathroom the yard man uses.
(b) It is the same bathroom the black maid, Aibileen, uses.
(c) It is too small.
(d) It is dirty.
5. What is the one thing Aibileen admits that she admires about Hilly Holbrook in chapter 14?
(a) Her clothing.
(b) Her jewelry.
(c) Her love for her children.
(d) Her love for her husband.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Hilly give to Aibileen after a bridge party in chapter 12?
2. What does Skeeter admit caused her some disappointment at first in chapter 12?
3. What is Skeeter's christian name?
4. Who has Skeeter pinpointed as her first interviewee for her book in chapter 8?
5. With whom does Skeeter have a date in chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Miss Celia do that Minny finds odd? Why does Minny have trouble teaching Miss Celia to cook?
2. Why does Aibileen begin telling Mae Mobley she is a smart, kind girl?
3. What does Celia spend most of her days doing? What is the result?
4. Who does Aibileen go to work for at the beginning of the novel? What happened just a few months before she accepted this job?
5. What does Aibileen write in her small notebook? How did she get into this habit?
6. Why does Skeeter begin visiting Aibileen at Mrs. Leefolt's house? What does Skeeter talk to Aibileen about?
7. Why does Skeeter try to pay money to Aibileen in chapter 8? How does Aibileen react?
8. How does the first interview between Skeeter and Aibileen go? What does Skeeter think will happen next?
9. 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?
10. Who sets up the first date between Stuart Whitworth and Skeeter? How does it go?
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