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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 is Bitterbuck’s first name?
2. How old is Elaine Connelly?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what does Harry give the mouse to eat?
4. What is the temperature at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 9?
5. Who will come to help Bitterbuck pray before his execution?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why didn’t Bowser bark when the Detterick girls were taken?
2. Why is Delacroix sent out to give a performance with his mouse at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 7?
3. What does Burt Hammersmith compare John Coffey to?
4. How is Toot-Toot persuaded to give his cigar box to Delacroix for six cents?
5. What is wrong with Warden Moores’ wife?
6. What does Percy do to Mr. Jingles at the end of Part 3?
7. What is the weather like the evening before Delacroix’s execution?
8. Why doesn’t Paul go to the TV room much in the day?
9. What promise does Warden Moores make to Percy regarding Delacroix?
10. What does Paul say to Bitterbuck when he starts to get nervous on the way to the electric chair?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Paul and Elaine are good friends. In what ways are Paul and Elaine friends? Does one of them take a primary role in caring for the other? Are they more than friends? Why or why not? How does their relationship affect their lives at Georgia Pines?
Essay Topic 2
Paul believes that when Melinda Moores comes home from the hospital, she is on her own Green Mile. What was the doctor’s diagnosis for Melinda? Was it a diagnosis or more of a sentence? In what way did her sentence relate to the sentences of the prisoners on the Mile? In what way was she a condemned prisoner? How was her confinement to her home, similar to the prisoners’ confinement on E Block? Why does Paul believe that Melinda Moores has her own Green Mile?
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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