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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. How tall is John Coffey?

2. How many dogs were sent to track the Detterick twins?

3. How many witnesses passed out during Elmer Manfred’s execution in 1930?

4. How long after Bitterbuck is taken to see his visitors do the guards walk down to his cell for a rehearsal?

5. Where did Paul’s wife, Jan, die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does John Coffey look like?

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

7. Why is Klaus Detterick considered well-to-do in the 1930s?

8. How is Paul’s urinary infection cured?

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

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

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

The mood of The Green Mile is very dark and a bit depressing. What does the story line have to do with the mood of the novel? Why isn’t this a light-hearted novel? How does the setting contribute to the mood? Does the mood change when the setting shifts to Georgia Pines? Why or why not? What is the overall mood of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Except for Percy, Paul and the other guards on the Mile seem to treat the prisoners with compassion. In what ways do Paul and the others make the prisoners comfortable? Do they merely make them comfortable physically or in other ways? What is the motive behind the way that Paul and the other treat the prisoners? Is it compassion or a desire to make their jobs easier? Why?

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