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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 color cap is John Coffey holding when he is escorted onto E Block?

2. How many years of her life did Beverly McCall spend as a free woman?

3. How close is the nursing home where Paul lives from Atlanta?

4. How old is Elaine Connelly?

5. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what does Bitterbuck throw the mouse to eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does John Coffey look like?

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

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

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

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

8. Why doesn’t Paul Edgecombe go to the doctor for his urinary infection?

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

10. What was Bitterbuck’s crime?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, Percy is a very unsympathetic character. How did Percy get his job at the penitentiary? Why does that make other characters dislike him? Do characters dislike Percy strictly because of how he got his job or are there other reasons?

Essay Topic 3

There are two antagonists in the novel. Who are the two antagonists? In what ways are these men alike? What conflicts do they cause Paul? Which one does Paul have more power over? Does he vanquish one of these men? Why doesn’t Paul have much control over Dolan? Is Paul ever able to exert any control over Dolan?

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