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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 1, when does the story take place?
2. What do Paul and Hal Moores drink during Paul’s visit in Part 3, Chapter 6?
3. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what does Toot-Toot throw the mouse to eat?
4. At the end of Part 3, Chapter 5, how much time does Wharton spend in the restraint room for his second time there?
5. How old is Perry?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Toot-Toot persuaded to give his cigar box to Delacroix for six cents?
2. What did Wharton do at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 5 that got him sent to the restraint room?
3. What does Paul say to Bitterbuck when he starts to get nervous on the way to the electric chair?
4. How is Melinda Moores doing when she is sent home from the hospital?
5. How did William Wharton get the opportunity to try to strangle Dean Stanton?
6. Why is Klaus Detterick considered well-to-do in the 1930s?
7. Why doesn’t Paul go to the TV room much in the day?
8. What does Bitterbuck tell Paul about his life?
9. Why didn’t Bowser bark when the Detterick girls were taken?
10. What is the weather like the evening before Delacroix’s execution?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The mood of The Green Mile is very dark and a bit depressing. What does the story line have to do with the mood of the novel? Why isn’t this a light-hearted novel? How does the setting contribute to the mood? Does the mood change when the setting shifts to Georgia Pines? Why or why not? What is the overall mood of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
There are two antagonists in the novel. Who are the two antagonists? In what ways are these men alike? What conflicts do they cause Paul? Which one does Paul have more power over? Does he vanquish one of these men? Why doesn’t Paul have much control over Dolan? Is Paul ever able to exert any control over Dolan?
Essay Topic 3
Except for Percy, Paul and the other guards on the Mile seem to treat the prisoners with compassion. In what ways do Paul and the others make the prisoners comfortable? Do they merely make them comfortable physically or in other ways? What is the motive behind the way that Paul and the other treat the prisoners? Is it compassion or a desire to make their jobs easier? Why?
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