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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are the maids commonly hired to do?
knit clothes for white families
reading the paper to the man of the house
clean house and raise the children of the white families
landscape and gardening
- 2. Multiple Choice
How did Aibileen know that she would grow up to be a house maid?
She had always wanted to be a maid.
She was sent into maid service at the age of six.
Her mother was a maid.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What caused Aibileen to have "bitter seed" planted inside of her?
All the questions she was being asked.
The rules about eating during the workday.
Being physically abused.
The death of her son.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What job does Skeeter get at the paper?
Sports reporter
Assistant editor
Cleaning advice column writer
Maid
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who helps Skeeter with the advice column?
Aibileen
Constantine
Hilly
Myrna
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who wants to get a "separate bathrooms" rule instituted at homes in Jackson?
Skeeter
Charlotte
Hilly
Aibileen
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why does Hilly fire Minny?
For sass mouthing her
For using the bathroom inside the house
For baking an unacceptable pie
For leaving the door open
- 8. Multiple Choice
In the beginning of the story Minny is the maid for:
Hilly
Skeeter
Miss Celia
Miss Leefolt
- 9. Multiple Choice
Whats the name of the baby Aibileen is taking care of?
Maria
Maybelle
Mae Mobly
Mary
- 10. Multiple Choice
Why does Hilly object to the help using the same bathroom as their white employers?
Because increased bathroom traffic means the help will have to clean the bathrooms more often, and Hilly doesn’t want to create extra work
Because she thinks black people carry different diseases that white people can then catch
Because she doesn’t like to share anything with anyone
Because she doesn’t want the help to snoop through her medicine cabinet
- 11. Multiple Choice
Celia asks Minny not to tell her husband Johnny something. What is it that she wants kept secret?
That she bought a new dress
That she hired Minny
That she is having an affair with the milkman
That she has an imaginary friend named Rita (who, incidentally, doesn’t know about Johnny)
- 12. Multiple Choice
Skeeter’s somewhat risky proposition for a book is which of the following?
A book about why white people and black people need separate bathrooms
A book about an alien invasion of earth
A book about why cats are better than dogs
A book about local African American maids and their experiences working for white people
- 13. Multiple Choice
How did Aibileen’s son Treelore die?
He was trying to summit Everest and fell
He was bitten by a poisonous snake
He isn’t dead
He was run over by a tractor
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who was the maid who raised Skeeter?
Aibileen
Constantine
Yule Mae
Minny
- 15. Multiple Choice
To whom did Aibileen say, "You is smart. You is kind. You is important."?
Skeeter
Mae Mobley
Yule Mae
Li'l May
- 16. Multiple Choice
Why was Aibileen fired by Elizabeth?
Hilly accused her of stealing silver.
Elizabeth's husband overheard Mae Mobley talk about the Woolworth sit-in.
Elizabeth found out chapter 2 was about her.
Aibileen's grown daughter shows up at Elizabeth's house.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Skeeter and Aibileen put Hilly's embarrassing feces-related incident into the book because
They are counting on Hilly to protect their anonymity in order to keep her own embarrassing story a secret.
They hate Hilly and want to embarrass her.
They believe it will cause Elaine Stein to want to publish the book.
They believe the scandalous incident will cause more people to want to buy the book, increasing book sales.
- 18. Multiple Choice
What does Hilly call her crusade to create separate bathrooms for the help?
Clean home intitiative
Black bathroom intitiative
Home help sanitation initiative
Separate bathroom measures
- 19. Multiple Choice
What does Aibileen write in her journal every night?
A journal entry
Part of her novel
Conversations she had that day
Her prayers
- 20. Multiple Choice
Where did Celia Foote grow up?
Sugarloaf
Mud Ditch
Sugar Ditch
Sugar Hill
- 21. Multiple Choice
What do the Jim Crow Law attempt to prevent?
Illiteracy
Social mixing of African Americans and white Americans
Theft
Drunk driving
- 22. Multiple Choice
What best describes Skeeter's opinion of Hilly's separate bathrooms initiative?
she thinks it will pose difficulties in toilet training white children
she thinks it represents the ideals of the Jim Crow Laws.
she thinks it will protect black maids from harassment by white men.
she thinks white people will have too much work to do.
- 23. Multiple Choice
What convinces the rest of the maids to take part in Skeeter's project?
Yule May's imprisonment for stealing Hilly's ring.
The murder of Medgar Evars.
The attack on Louvenia's grandson.
The money Skeeter offers them.
- 24. Multiple Choice
What qualities best describe the character of Minny?
imperious and rude
inquisitive and shy
warm and wise
sharp-tongued and tough
- 25. Multiple Choice
What qualities best describe the character of Aibileen?
imperious and rude
sharp-tongued and tough
inquisitive and shy
warm and wise
- 26. Multiple Choice
What qualities best describe the character of (Eugenia) Skeeter?
sharp-tongued and tough
warm and wise
literary-minded and shy
imperious and rude
- 27. Multiple Choice
The statement that best describes the character of Hilly
a woman who fights the racial inequality of segregation
elegant and an upstanding member of society
caring and a woman of great integrity
mean-spirited racist and a privileged high society southern woman
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWho showed up during the bridge party?MinnyYule MayCelia FooteMrs. Leefolt's mother
- 29. Multiple Choice
What did Skeeter tell people to leave on Hilly's yard?
coats
bathtubs
garbage
toilets
- 30. Multiple Choice
The movie takes place where?
Chicago, Illinois
Boston, Massachusetts
Jackson, Mississippi
Atlanta, Georgia
- 31. Multiple Choice
The movie takes place during what time frame in history?
During World War II
During the Great Depression
During Civil War
During Civil Rights Era
- 32. Multiple Choice
Which two maids are best friends in the movie?
Skeeter and Minnie
Albileen and Minnie
Hilly and Celcia
Jackson and Carlton
- 33. Multiple Choice
Why is Skeeter moving away from home?
To live with her boyfriend
She got a job in New York
To go to college
To write a book about another city
- 34. Multiple Choice
True or false? Skeeter found out after her mom fired their maid and that Constantine had moved to Chicago and passed away shortly after.
True
False
- 35. Multiple Choice
What did the members of Ailbileen and Minnie's church give them?
A Bible
A signed copy of the book
A trophy
Money
- 36. Multiple Choice
How many slices of Minnie's pie did Hilly eat?
1
2
3
4
- 37. Multiple Choice
What happened after Skeeter's boyfriend found out Skeeter wrote the book?
He was proud of her
They got married
He broke up with her
They moved in together
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