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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color ribbon is in Elaine’s hair when she confronts Dolan in Part 6, Chapter 1?
(a) Yellow
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Red

2. How much time does Coffey spend each day trudging around the exercise yard?
(a) An hour and-a-half
(b) 30 minutes
(c) An hour
(d) 2 hours

3. What song does Mickey the orderly sing in Part 6, Chapter 1?
(a) Casey Jones
(b) Billy Boy
(c) When Irish Eyes are Smiling
(d) Red River Valley

4. When Wharton reaches out to grab Coffey in Part 5, Chapter 5, who removes his arm from Coffey’s?
(a) Coffey
(b) Harry
(c) Brutal
(d) Paul

5. How many paces does Percy move after Coffey infects him with what was taken from Melinda Moores?
(a) 12 or 14
(b) 11
(c) 8
(d) 10 or 12

Short Answer Questions

1. How many witnesses come to view Delacroix’s execution?

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

3. After Percy shoots Wharton, who gets to Percy first?

4. By how much does Harry outweigh Percy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

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

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

6. Where had Paul found Mr. Jingles?

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

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 give Wharton R.C. to drink?

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

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