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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. After Percy kills Wharton, how long does the uproar last?

2. Who uses the fire extinguisher to put out the flames at Delacroix’s execution?

3. What type of a truck do Paul and the others use to transport Coffey to the Moores?

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

5. Who threatens to turn Percy over to Wharton if Percy doesn’t transfer to Briar Ridge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the law do about Wharton when a man said Wharton had bothered his nine-year-old daughter?

2. After Percy is released from the straitjacket, what happens?

3. How does Hal Moores look when he meets Paul and the others at the front door of his home?

4. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

5. What do Paul and the others do with Percy when they take Coffey to the Moores?

6. Where had Paul found Mr. Jingles?

7. Why does Hal Moores call Paul the morning after Delacroix’s execution?

8. 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?

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

10. What is Wharton doing when Paul gets back to the block after Delacroix’s execution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul believes that talking is his and his staff’s most important job. What purpose does talking with the prisoners serve? Why does Paul prefer talking to discipline or punishment? What are the benefits of talk for the prisoners? For the guards?

Essay Topic 2

Hammersmith believes that Coffey is extremely dangerous. Does Hammersmith agree that Coffey appears, at times, to seem innocent and not dangerous? What incident in Hammersmith’s life does he relate to Paul? How does that incident influence how Hammersmith feels about Coffey? In what way does Hammersmith believe that Coffey is just like his dog?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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