Questions for The Help (a.k.a. Niceville)

What qualities best describe the character of Aibileen?

Warm and wise

During her first interview with Skeeter, what's the question that catches Aibileen off guard?

What do you dislike about your job?

What convinces the rest of the maids to take part in Skeeter's project?

Yule May's imprisonment for stealing Hilly's ring

What is one of the books that Aibileen asks Skeeter to get from the white library?

A book by Freud

What document in Skeeter's satchel does Hilly read?

A copy of the Jim Crow laws

What crisis does Minny help Celia survive?

A miscarriage

What does Minny discover in the upper rooms of Celia's house?

Brown bottles that appear to contain alcohol

What does Celia ask Minny to teach her?

Cooking

What was the only job that Skeeter applied to during her senior year?

Editor

What kind of compensation does Skeeter offer Aibileen for her help with the Miss Myrna column?

Five dollars per article

Why doesn't Skeeter tell her mother about her date with Stuart?

Her mother will become too involved

What does Aibileen write every night?

Her prayers

What does Hilly call her crusade to create separate bathrooms for the help?

Home Help Sanitation Initiative

What does Aibileen's note to Skeeter say?

I know how to make the teapot stop rattling

Where is Skeeter's first job out of college?

Jackson Journal

What qualities best describe the character of Skeeter?

Literary-minded and shy

The assassination of what major figures terrifies Minny and Aibileen?

Medgar Evers

What is Elaine Stein's position at Harper & Row publishers?

Senior Editor

What qualities best describe the character of Minny?

Sharp-tongued and tough

What best describes Skeeter's opinion of Hilly's separate bathrooms initiative?

She thinks it's similar to the Jim Crow Laws

What do the Jim Crow Laws attempt to prevent?

Social mingling of black and white people

What is Yule May imprisoned for?

Stealing one of Hilly's rings (one she doesn't even like)

Where did Celia Foote grow up?

Sugar Ditch

What is the name of Aibileen's dead son?

Treelore