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

2. Who helps Bitterbuck braid his hair before his execution?

3. When does Paul say is the optimum time to talk to prisoners?

4. What color are Wharton’s eyes?

5. How long does it take Wharton to wake up after Brutus hits him with his baton?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of jokes are made about the electric chair?

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

3. What was Bitterbuck’s crime?

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

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

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

7. Why didn’t Bowser bark when the Detterick girls were taken?

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

9. What does Burt Hammersmith compare John Coffey to?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coffey is executed even though he is innocent. In what way are Paul’s and his co-workers’ hands tied when it comes to getting a stay of execution? Why don’t they even attempt to prove Coffey’s innocence to a higher authority? Do Coffey’s wishes have anything to do with the reasons why he was executed even though he was innocent?

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

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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