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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. What do Paul and Hal Moores drink during Paul’s visit in Part 3, Chapter 6?

2. What is the name of the sheriff who is in charge of the county where the Dettericks live?

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

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

5. Who will come to help Bitterbuck pray before his execution?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Bitterbuck’s crime?

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

5. Who is the new prisoner who is coming to E Block?

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

7. What does Bitterbuck tell Paul about his life?

8. How did the President’s life turn out after he was released from E Block?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, Percy is a very unsympathetic character. How did Percy get his job at the penitentiary? Why does that make other characters dislike him? Do characters dislike Percy strictly because of how he got his job or are there other reasons?

Essay Topic 3

From the beginning, Mr. Jingles seems to be more than just a mouse. Once Percy seems to be an enemy, when does the mouse only come around? What does Paul think when the mouse only comes around when Percy isn’t on the block? What actions get Paul and the others thinking the mouse is looking for someone? When does the mouse seem to quit looking for someone? What does Delacroix claim that the mouse whispers to him? What happens to the mouse immediately after Delacroix’s execution? What about that seems to confirm the fact that the mouse isn’t simply an ordinary mouse?

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