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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 4, what time does Paul check into work?

2. When Wharton reaches out to grab Coffey in Part 5, Chapter 5, who removes his arm from Coffey’s?

3. In Part 5, Chapter 5, what does Paul give Wharton to drink late in the evening?

4. When did Briar Ridge burn?

5. How many people die in the tornado that Paul mentions in Part 4, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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 Coffey want to die?

5. Why does Coffey stop and look at the electric chair as they pass on their way to the Moores?

6. What does Paul’s shoe have to do with the belief he has that Coffey is innocent?

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

8. Why does Paul give Wharton R.C. to drink?

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

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

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

In the novel, Percy is a very unsympathetic character. How did Percy get his job at the penitentiary? Why does that make other characters dislike him? Do characters dislike Percy strictly because of how he got his job or are there other reasons?

Essay Topic 3

Those imprisoned on the mile are not the only prisoners in The Green Mile. Who else could be considered prisoners in the novel? What imprisons these characters? Are any of the characters able to break free from their physical or mental prisons?

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