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The Help Q and A
1. What is the name of the Harper and Row editor that has maintained communication with Skeeter? Elaine Stein 2. How does the Hilly Holbook find out Aibileen is writing the stories? By the L shape crack she writes about in the dining room table. 3. What year was //The Help// (in the book) published? 1964 4. Where would Skeeter go to talk on the phone to Mrs. Stein? Sit on top of a big can in the pantry. 5. What is the name of the plantation Skeeter lives on? Longleaf 6. What causes all of Skeeter's friends to abandon her? Hilly convinced everyone not to talk to her because Skeeter told everybody to drop off their old toilets on Hilly's precious lawn. 7. What is Aibileen's late-son's name? Treelore 8. What is the name of the child Aibileen takes care of throughout the book? Mae Mobley Leefolt 9. What is the first dish Minny "teaches" Celia to cook in the book? Fried chicken. 10. What's the setting of the book in the beginning? Jackson, Mississippi, 1962 11. What does Minny discover Miss Celia's secret is? She is trying to have a child, but keeps having miscarriages.