The Help Final Test

Due to the ninety-nine percent humidity, Elizabeth agrees at first that Aibileen should go without stockings. What makes her change her mind?

• The weather gets cooler later in the day

• Hilly will be there in five minutes, and she won't like it

• She doesn't want Aibileen to get into trouble with her husband

• She tells her to put them back on, but she doesn't mean it

How does Elizabeth treat Mae Mobley when she discovers that she has smeared mud and grass all over herself?

• She is disgusted by her

• She looks at her with affection

• She is annoyed but says 'kids will be kids'

• She is overjoyed; she used to do that as a kid

When the question of color comes up in this chapter, Aibileen and Mae Mobley’s preschool teacher, Miss Taylor, demonstrate different ways of explaining. What are they?

What illustration had they chosen for the book, Help by Anonymous?

• A butterfly

• An empty building

• Hands holding a flower

• A white dove

Minny is upset by how Dennis James, talk show host on the People Will Talk Show, handles the book’s origin. Why?

Who is Minny mostly afraid of with regards to the women of Jackson finding out that she and the other maids have written about them?

• Mrs. Phelan

• Elizabeth Lefolt

• Hilly Holbrook

• Skeeter Phelan

What do Mr. Johnny and Celia say to Minny?

• They want to fire her

• They want her to go work for Mr. Johnny's mother

• They want her to work for them forever

• They want her to live with them

Why does Aibileen want Hilly to read like the wind?

Minny suffers from “battered wife syndrome”. Explain.

Why should Skeeter leave Jackson? Why doesn’t she want to?