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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. Which regulation required that visitors have a pass and be recorded in the visitors’ book?

2. How many years before John Coffey arrived at the penitentiary were there riots at the prison?

3. What type of wood is the electric chair made from?

4. What color cap is John Coffey holding when he is escorted onto E Block?

5. At the end of Part 3, Chapter 5, how much time does Wharton spend in the restraint room for his second time there?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Melinda Moores doing when she is sent home from the hospital?

2. What promise does Warden Moores make to Percy regarding Delacroix?

3. What does Bitterbuck tell Paul about his life?

4. Who at Georgia Pines reminds Paul of Percy Wetmore?

5. Where does Brutal discover that Mr. Jingles was hiding before he first showed up?

6. How is Toot-Toot persuaded to give his cigar box to Delacroix for six cents?

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

8. How did William Wharton get the opportunity to try to strangle Dean Stanton?

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

10. What was Bitterbuck’s crime?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are many conflicts in the novel. Name some of the conflicts that occur in The Green Mile. What types of conflicts are these (Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Self)? Are there more external or internal conflicts in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

When someone first comes to live at Georgia Pines, it seems as safe as a nursery school. How do people change after coming to Georgia Pines? Why does Paul believe the place is dangerous? How does he try to avoid the danger?

Essay Topic 3

Burt Hammersmith believes that Coffey is dangerous and committed the murders of the little girls. What made Hammersmith come to that conclusion? What analogy does Hammersmith use to indicate why he believes Coffey is dangerous? Why does he believe Paul should never turn his back on Coffey?

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