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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. In Part 1, when does the story take place?
2. What was the name of Hammersmith’s dog?
3. What has someone labeled the switch that turns on the electric chair?
4. What is the name of Hammersmith’s son?
5. Which regulation required that visitors have a pass and be recorded in the visitors’ book?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Paul think that Percy learns to stay in the middle of the corridor on the mile?
2. What does Percy do to Mr. Jingles at the end of Part 3?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 2, what happens when Percy throws his baton at the mouse?
4. How does Percy Wetmore keep his job if he is so incompetent?
5. What does Paul say to Bitterbuck when he starts to get nervous on the way to the electric chair?
6. Why doesn’t Paul go to the TV room much in the day?
7. What did Wharton do at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 5 that got him sent to the restraint room?
8. Who at Georgia Pines reminds Paul of Percy Wetmore?
9. What does Burt Hammersmith compare John Coffey to?
10. What types of jokes are made about the electric chair?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Paul believes that talking is his and his staff’s most important job. What purpose does talking with the prisoners serve? Why does Paul prefer talking to discipline or punishment? What are the benefits of talk for the prisoners? For the guards?
Essay Topic 2
Paul believes that Coffey did not kill the young girls. Why does Paul connect not being able to tie a shoe to Coffey’s innocence? What other things about Coffey make Paul believe he is innocent? Is Paul’s theory every corroborated?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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