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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. Who tries to slug Percy after Delacroix’s execution?

2. Who has to clean up the storage room after Delacroix’s execution?

3. What does Paul do when Percy starts spouting off after the tape is removed from his mouth.

4. How many women come to see Delacroix executed?

5. How far of a drive is it to the Moores?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Paul come to live at Georgia Pines?

4. Where had Paul found Mr. Jingles?

5. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

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

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

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

9. Why does Paul ask his colleagues to come to lunch at his house?

10. How involved is Paul in his writing in Part 6, Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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