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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. When did Percy die?

2. When Paul goes to release Percy from the restraint room, how long does Paul think it would have taken Percy to remove the tape from his mouth?

3. What color dress is Elaine wearing when she offers to set off the fire alarm?

4. How old is Klaus Detterick?

5. Who will stay on the block while the rest of the crew gets Coffey to the Moores?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Paul imagine that Bruce Dolan lives?

2. What does Percy say when he discovers that Mr. Jingles is still alive?

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

4. Why does Paul give Wharton R.C. to drink?

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

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

7. What does Paul say happens to elderly folks in Georgia Pines if they don’t fight it?

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. Why does Paul wonder if humans are merely circus mice?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul is writing the story of The Green Mile in his old age from a nursing home. How does that affect the storyline? Does Paul show or tell his story? How does it affect the story knowing that the events that are told happened a long time ago? Does knowing that the story happened in the past make the story more or less suspenseful? In the scenes from the nursing home, does Paul relate events before or after he has shared them with readers? How does this affect the story? In what way does the change of setting to the nursing home help set the stage for the story?

Essay Topic 2

Coffey is executed even though he is innocent. In what way are Paul’s and his co-workers’ hands tied when it comes to getting a stay of execution? Why don’t they even attempt to prove Coffey’s innocence to a higher authority? Do Coffey’s wishes have anything to do with the reasons why he was executed even though he was innocent?

Essay Topic 3

Paul considers his writing to be a time machine. In what ways does Paul’s writing take him back in time? Is he transported back physical, emotionally, or both? What is different about the way that Paul’s writing takes him back in time compared to how Wells’ time machine took someone back in time?

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