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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Paul think Hammersmith’s son is?

2. What was the name of Hammersmith’s dog?

3. What is the name of Hammersmith’s son?

4. What has someone labeled the switch that turns on the electric chair?

5. What color cushion is on the chair behind the duty desk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paul think that Percy learns to stay in the middle of the corridor on the mile?

2. Why was John Coffey arrested for murder?

3. Why doesn’t Paul go to the TV room much in the day?

4. Why doesn’t Paul Edgecombe go to the doctor for his urinary infection?

5. What does Percy do to Mr. Jingles at the end of Part 3?

6. Why is Delacroix sent out to give a performance with his mouse at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 7?

7. Who gets Wharton under control when he is choking Dean?

8. What does Burt Hammersmith compare John Coffey to?

9. How did Mr. Jingles eat a portion of a sandwich that Brutal gave him the first night that the mouse showed up?

10. Why is Klaus Detterick considered well-to-do in the 1930s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul thinks that Coffey’s powers come from God, and Delacroix believes that his actions are due to hoodoo. How was Paul raised? What part did religion play in his upbringing? What is known about Delacroix’s upbringing? How might that have affected how he reacted to miraculous events? How do the two men’s views of life determine what motives they see behind Coffey’s healings?

Essay Topic 2

Paul believes that when Melinda Moores comes home from the hospital, she is on her own Green Mile. What was the doctor’s diagnosis for Melinda? Was it a diagnosis or more of a sentence? In what way did her sentence relate to the sentences of the prisoners on the Mile? In what way was she a condemned prisoner? How was her confinement to her home, similar to the prisoners’ confinement on E Block? Why does Paul believe that Melinda Moores has her own Green Mile?

Essay Topic 3

Except for Percy, Paul and the other guards on the Mile seem to treat the prisoners with compassion. In what ways do Paul and the others make the prisoners comfortable? Do they merely make them comfortable physically or in other ways? What is the motive behind the way that Paul and the other treat the prisoners? Is it compassion or a desire to make their jobs easier? Why?

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