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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the electric current run during an execution?
(a) 30 seconds
(b) 45 seconds
(c) 60 seconds
(d) 90 seconds

2. Who will come to help Bitterbuck pray before his execution?
(a) Lutheran minister
(b) Medicine man
(c) Baptist minister
(d) Presbyterian minister

3. How many cells are there for condemned prisoners?
(a) 4
(b) 10
(c) 6
(d) 8

4. Why is John Coffey sentenced to death?
(a) Murder during a barroom brawl
(b) Rape and murder of the Detterick twins
(c) Killing his own wife
(d) Stabbing and killing three women

5. How old were the Detterick twins when they died?
(a) 10
(b) 9
(c) 7
(d) 8

Short Answer Questions

1. What size bulbs burn in the corridor of E Block?

2. How many years after Beverly McCall’s sentence was committed did Paul see her obituary?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what time does the mouse show up?

4. About how many folding chairs are set up for executions?

5. Who did the prisoner nicknamed the President kill?

(see the answer key)

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