Plot #1
Plot #2
Quotations
Themes
Relationships
100
This city and state are the setting for The Help.
What is Jackson, Mississippi
100
This is the name of the cleaning column that Skeeter writes for.
What is Miss Myrna?
100
This person said, "I been writing my prayers since junior high."
Who is Aibileen?
100
This is an example of oral storytelling in The Help.
What is the maid's sharing their stories with Skeeter (& other answers....)?
100
This is who Aibileen works for.
Who is Elizabeth Leefolt?
200
This is the name of Aibileen's son
Who is Treelore?
200
This city is where Celia Foote is from.
What is Sugar Ditch?
200
This person said, "Don't waste your time on obvious things. Write about what disturbs you; particularly if it seems to bother no one else."
Who is Elaine Stein?
200
This is an example of the deep mistrust that members of the black community had towards white people.
What is the hesitation that most maids had regarding talking to Skeeter?
200
This person was Skeeter's maid when she was growing up.
Who is Constantine?
300
This is the reason that the bridge club ladies do not like Celia.
What is because Celia is married to Hilly's ex-boyfriend Johnny.
300
This person is the senior editor for Harper and Row.
Who is Elaine Stein?
300
This person said, "A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea.”
Who is Hilly Holbrook?
300
This is an example of how members of the white community attempted to keep the civil rights movement out of Jackson.
What is the Medger Evers shooting?
300
This person worked for Hilly before her arrest.
Who is Yule May?
400
This is how Skeeter met Stuart.
What is through Hilly Holbrook?
400
This is what Hilly finds in Skeeter's Satchel that upsets her.
What is a pamphlet of the Jim Crowe laws?
400
This person said, "I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty aint a color, disease aint the negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming- and it come in every white child’s life- when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as white.”
Who is Aibileen?
400
This relationship is an example of how deep love can counteract hate bread into a child.
What is the relationship between Aibileen and Mae Mobley or Skeeter and Constantine?
400
This person worked for Miss Walter's before she went to live in a nursing home.
Who is Minny?
500
This is why Lullabelle was born "high yellow."
What is because she had a white grandfather?
500
This is the point of view that Chapter 25 "The Benefit" is told in.
What is third-person, omniscient?
500
This person said, "I’m ashamed sometimes, Senator. Ashamed of what goes on in Mississippi.”
Who is Mr. Phelan (Skeeter's father)?
500
This relationship is an example of how some characters used physical violence to prevent change in their personal lives.
What is the relationship between Minny and Leroy?
500
This person has been offered a job with the Foote family for life.
Who is Minny?