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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 is the Benefit to benefit?
(a) The Starving Children of Ethiopia.
(b) The poor of Jackson.
(c) The local schools.
(d) Poor Starving Children of Africa.
2. What does Skeeter push Stuart to tell her about his ex-fiancee in chapter 19 that causes some tension between them?
(a) What her feelings regarding the civil rights movement were.
(b) Whether they shared a bed.
(c) Whether they ever traveled together.
(d) What caused their break up.
3. Who does Skeeter reveal she paid twenty-five dollars each to put the thirty plus toilets on Hilly's front lawn?
(a) Her own brother and a friend.
(b) Pascagoula's brothers.
(c) Stuart and her brother.
(d) Aibileen's cousin and nephew.
4. Who tells Aibileen to stay away from Skeeter if she wants to keep her job?
(a) Hilly Holbrook.
(b) Minny.
(c) Mrs. Leefolt.
(d) Mr. Leefolt.
5. Where does Skeeter go in chapter 19 to cool off in the overwhelming heat?
(a) The Cadillac.
(b) The house.
(c) Hilly's house.
(d) The local department store.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is waiting for Skeeter as she arrives home at the end of chapter 27?
2. Who was Carl Roberts?
3. How much time has passed between chapter 28 and chapter 29?
4. What ailment does Minny's son, Benny, suffer?
5. What does Dr. Tate accuse Celia of in chapter 18?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Celia tell her husband, Johnny Foote, that prompts him to tell Minny she will have a job for life in chapter 30?
2. What does Skeeter learn about Yule May in chapter 19? What does the letter from Yule May to Skeeter say? What is the result of this situation?
3. What does Dr. Neal tell Skeeter in chapter 28 that her mother is suffering? What are her prospects?
4. Why does Celia threaten to leave her husband in chapter 26? How does Minny talk her out of it?
5. What begins to happen throughout town as people begin to read Skeeter's book?
6. In chapter 18, Minny finds Celia in the bathroom of her bedroom. What has happened to Celia? How does this explain her odd behavior since Minny came to work for her?
7. What does Minny insist on adding to her section of the book? For what reason?
8. Who has Skeeter started dating in chapter 19? Why does she refuse to go to Biloxi with him?
9. What does Mrs. Stein tell Skeeter in chapter 27 about the deadline for the book? How does this change things?
10. 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?
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