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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. How many residents are allowed to smoke at Georgia Pines?

2. How much time does Coffey spend each day trudging around the exercise yard?

3. Who tries to soothe the witnesses after Delacroix’s execution?

4. What color ribbon is in Elaine’s hair when she confronts Dolan in Part 6, Chapter 1?

5. When the coon dogs were hunting the Detterick girls, what direction did they want to go at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What constellation does Coffey see and how does he describe it when he is outside the prison?

10. What does Melinda Moores look like once Coffey helps her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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