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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. In Part 5, Chapter 1, how long has it been since Elaine had a cigarette?

2. When did Briar Ridge burn?

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

4. In Part 4, Chapter 4, where is there a tornado?

5. How old is Klaus Detterick?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where does Paul imagine that Bruce Dolan lives?

7. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

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

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

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

Paul thinks that Coffey’s powers come from God, and Delacroix believes that his actions are due to hoodoo. How was Paul raised? What part did religion play in his upbringing? What is known about Delacroix’s upbringing? How might that have affected how he reacted to miraculous events? How do the two men’s views of life determine what motives they see behind Coffey’s healings?

Essay Topic 3

From the beginning, Mr. Jingles seems to be more than just a mouse. Once Percy seems to be an enemy, when does the mouse only come around? What does Paul think when the mouse only comes around when Percy isn’t on the block? What actions get Paul and the others thinking the mouse is looking for someone? When does the mouse seem to quit looking for someone? What does Delacroix claim that the mouse whispers to him? What happens to the mouse immediately after Delacroix’s execution? What about that seems to confirm the fact that the mouse isn’t simply an ordinary mouse?

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