The Help Quizzes

The Help Quiz 1

By Alexandra Nichipor · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed October 28, 2015

1 What is the name of Aibileen's dead son?

Tyrone

Trevor

Terrance

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

Clean Home Crusade

Black Bathroom Initiative

Separate Bathrooms Measure

Home Help Sanitation Initiative
3 What does Aibileen write every night?

Conversations she has had that day

Her prayers

A journal entry

Part of her novel
4 Where did Celia Foote grow up?

Sugar Hill

Sugarloaf

Mud Ditch

Sugar Ditch
5 What does Celia ask Minny to teach her?

How to clean silver

Cooking

How to apply makeup

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

Salesgirl

Clerk

Stenographer

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

Senior editor

CEO

President

Hiring manager
8 Where is Skeeter's first job out of college?

Mobile Monthly

Jackson Journal

Birmingham Beacon

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

A medal

A typewriter

Protection from Hilly's harassment

Five dollars per article
10 Why doesn't Skeeter tell her mother about her date with Stuart?

Her mother will become too involved

Her mother dislikes Stuart's family

Stuart is black

Her mother wants her to marry someone else
11 During her first interview with Skeeter, what's the question that catches Aibileen off guard?

Have you ever thought that you were smarter than your white boss?

What do you dislike about your job?

Do you hate having separate bathrooms?

Do you think the violence against civil rights protestors is justified?
12 What does Aibileen's note to Skeeter say?

I know why the caged bird sings

I know why mayonnaise removes bathtub stains

I know why bowls are round

I know how to make the teapot stop rattling
13 What document in Skeeter's satchel does Hilly read?

A copy of the Jim Crow laws

Her diary

Her interviews with Minny

Her interviews with Aibileen
14 The assassination of what major figures terrifies Minny and Aibileen?

Bayard Rustin

Nina Simone

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Medgar Evers
15 What crisis does Minny help Celia survive?

The mimosa tree falling on her house

A miscarriage

A kitchen injury

Abandonment by her husband
16 What is one of Hilly's only redeeming qualities?

Her charity towards the help

Her love for her children

Her love of animals

Her excellent cooking
17 What qualities best describe the character of Aibileen?

Imperious and rude

Sharp-tongued and tough

Inquisitive and shy

Warm and wise
18 What qualities best describe the character of Minny?

Sharp-tongued and tough

Inquisitive and shy

Imperious and rude

Warm and wise
19 What qualities best describe the character of Skeeter?

Sharp-tongued and tough

Literary-minded and shy

Imperious and rude

Warm and wise
20 What is Yule May imprisoned for?

Striking one of Hilly's children

Taking seventy-five dollars from Hilly's wallet

Telling Hilly that she's a fat racist with the morals of a streetwalker

Stealing one of Hilly's rings (one she doesn't even like)
21 What convinces the rest of the maids to take part in Skeeter's project?

Yule May's imprisonment for stealing Hilly's ring

The money Skeeter offers them

The murder of Medgar Evars

The attack on Louvenia's grandson
22 What is one of the books that Aibileen asks Skeeter to get from the white library?

A book by Freud

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

A book by Audre Lorde

A book by Abraham Lincoln
23 What do the Jim Crow Laws attempt to prevent?

Social mingling of black and white people

Drunk driving

Illiteracy

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

She thinks it will prevent disease

She thinks it's similar to the Jim Crow Laws

She thinks it will pose difficulties in toilet training white children

She thinks it will protect black maids from harassment by white men
25 What does Minny discover in the upper rooms of Celia's house?

Brown bottles that appear to contain alcohol

A dollhouse

A dead baby

A phone that Celia uses to call women in the Junior League

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