Disclosed are a tool and a method for measuring a parallelism and an angle of a shank skeleton of a vehicle crash dummy. The tool includes: a fixation seat, where a magnetic fastener is arranged on the fixation seat and configured to mount a shank U-shaped member; and a movement assembly that is configured to drive a measurement assembly to move, so as to change a relative position of a measurement end of the measurement assembly and the shank U-shaped member. The condition that the measurement assembly directly comes into contact with the shank U-shaped member, and damages a surface of the shank U-shaped member is avoided while making an entire measurement process more convenient.