'The Help' by Katherine Stockett Chapters 1-20

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

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)

What job does Skeeter accept that ultimately requires Aibileen’s know-how?

• A job as a maid

• A job playing a black maid in a theater performance

• A job writing a housekeeping column for a newspaper

• A job working for really pushy white people

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

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 fell off the loading dock and a tractor trailer crushed him

Who was the maid who raised Skeeter?

• Aibileen

• Constantine

• Pascagoula

• Minny

To whom did Aibileen say, "You is smart. You is kind. You is important."?

• Skeeter

• Mae Mobley

• Yule Mae

• Li'l May

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

What does Aibileen write every night?

• A journal entry

• Part of her novel

• Conversations she had that day

• Her prayers

Where did Celia Foote grow up?

• Sugarloaf

• Mud Ditch

• Sugar Ditch

• Sugar Hill