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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 far of a drive is it to the Moores?

2. What type of a grip is on Paul’s gun?

3. What type of a truck do Paul and the others use to transport Coffey to the Moores?

4. In Part 6, Chapter 1, how long does Paul think he slept in the sunroom?

5. How close does Paul think that Coffey got to the Detterick farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Percy tell Delacroix just before his execution?

4. Where had Paul found Mr. Jingles?

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

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

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

8. What happens to Percy after he shoots Wharton?

9. What does Percy say when he discovers that Mr. Jingles is still alive?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul believes that when Melinda Moores comes home from the hospital, she is on her own Green Mile. What was the doctor’s diagnosis for Melinda? Was it a diagnosis or more of a sentence? In what way did her sentence relate to the sentences of the prisoners on the Mile? In what way was she a condemned prisoner? How was her confinement to her home, similar to the prisoners’ confinement on E Block? Why does Paul believe that Melinda Moores has her own Green Mile?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Percy hates Delacroix. Did Percy have positive or negative feelings for Delacroix when Delacroix first came on the block? What happened that made Percy hate Delacroix? How does Percy make life miserable for Delacroix? What makes Percy hate Delacroix even more? How does Percy seek revenge?

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