The Help

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

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.

• It was customary that maids be passed down the family line.

What caused Aibileen to have "bitter seed" planted inside of her?

• Hilly's initiative about the separate bathrooms.

• The rules about eating during the workday.

• Being physically abused.

• The death of her son.

What job does Skeeter get at the paper?

• Sports reporter

• Assistant editor

• writing a cleaning advice column

• reporting political news

Who helps Skeeter with the advice column?

• Aibileen

• Constantine

• Hilly

• Myrna

Who wants to get a "separate bathrooms" rule instituted at homes in Jackson?

• Skeeter

• Charlotte

• Hilly

• Aibileen

Why does Hilly fire Minny?

• For sass mouthing her

• For using the bathroom inside the house

• For baking an unacceptable pie

• For scratching her table when polishing it

In the beginning of the story Minny is the maid for:

• Hilly

• Skeeter

• Miss Celia

• Miss Leefolt

Whats the name of the baby Aibileen is taking care of?

• Maria

• Maybelle

• Mae Mobly

• Mary

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

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