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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. What color are Wharton’s eyes?

2. Where did the Chief and his first wife build a lodge?

3. What was the name of Hammersmith’s dog?

4. How many years of her life did Beverly McCall spend as a free woman?

5. What size bulbs burn in the corridor of E Block?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John Coffey look like?

2. What is the weather like the evening before Delacroix’s execution?

3. What does Bitterbuck tell Paul about his life?

4. How is Paul’s urinary infection cured?

5. How is Melinda Moores doing when she is sent home from the hospital?

6. What did Wharton do at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 5 that got him sent to the restraint room?

7. Who gets Wharton under control when he is choking Dean?

8. What does Paul say to Bitterbuck when he starts to get nervous on the way to the electric chair?

9. How does Paul think that Percy learns to stay in the middle of the corridor on the mile?

10. How did Mr. Jingles eat a portion of a sandwich that Brutal gave him the first night that the mouse showed up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul believes that talking is his and his staff’s most important job. What purpose does talking with the prisoners serve? Why does Paul prefer talking to discipline or punishment? What are the benefits of talk for the prisoners? For the guards?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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