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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 dress is Elaine wearing when she offers to set off the fire alarm?

2. What type of car does Dolan drive?

3. What time do visitors begin to arrive to witness Delacroix’s execution?

4. What does Janet give Paul to eat while he tells her the story of the night they took Coffey to the Moores?

5. In Part 5, Chapter 4, what time does Percy get to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 6, Chapter 1, what does Elaine say to Dolan to make him stop bothering Paul?

2. What does Percy do after John releases what he took from Melinda into Percy?

3. In Part 5, Chapter 9, why doesn’t Brutal think that Coffey will ever sit in the electric chair?

4. When Paul oversleeps in Part 5, Chapter 1, how does Elaine help him get past Dolan?

5. What was the only possible sighting of Coffey that Paul had been able to find when he wrote letters to friends and relatives further down south?

6. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

7. When had Wharton been involved with an underage girl?

8. What do Paul and Coffey do with Mr. Jingles after Percy steps on it?

9. Why does Coffey stop and look at the electric chair as they pass on their way to the Moores?

10. What does Curtis Anderson say to Percy after Delacroix’s botched execution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Burt Hammersmith believes that Coffey is dangerous and committed the murders of the little girls. What made Hammersmith come to that conclusion? What analogy does Hammersmith use to indicate why he believes Coffey is dangerous? Why does he believe Paul should never turn his back on Coffey?

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

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?

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