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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 does Mrs. Hammersmith bring Paul to drink?

2. In Part 3, Chapter 5, what does Wharton hit Brutal with after his session in the restraint room?

3. In Part 3, Chapter 1, how far does Paul say it is to the Happy Wheels Trailer Court?

4. How did Bitterbuck kill a man?

5. What color are Elaine’s eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Burt Hammersmith compare John Coffey to?

5. How does Percy Wetmore keep his job if he is so incompetent?

6. What did Wharton do at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 5 that got him sent to the restraint room?

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

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

9. In Part 2, Chapter 2, what happens when Percy throws his baton at the mouse?

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

Those imprisoned on the mile are not the only prisoners in The Green Mile. Who else could be considered prisoners in the novel? What imprisons these characters? Are any of the characters able to break free from their physical or mental prisons?

Essay Topic 2

Paul asks his co-workers to help him get Coffey to heal Melinda Moores. Does Paul have a personal relationship with the Moores? How does that relationship figure into Paul’s desire to help? How is Paul feeling about Delacroix’s execution? How do those feelings affect Paul’s desire to help Melinda Moores?

Essay Topic 3

Paul is writing the story of The Green Mile in his old age from a nursing home. How does that affect the storyline? Does Paul show or tell his story? How does it affect the story knowing that the events that are told happened a long time ago? Does knowing that the story happened in the past make the story more or less suspenseful? In the scenes from the nursing home, does Paul relate events before or after he has shared them with readers? How does this affect the story? In what way does the change of setting to the nursing home help set the stage for the story?

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