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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. Who is Elaine’s grandson?

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

3. At Delacroix’s execution, who is the last witness to take a seat?

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

5. How many kids does Dean have in high school?

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

3. What do Paul and the others do with Percy when they take Coffey to the Moores?

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

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

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

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

8. Where does Paul imagine that Bruce Dolan lives?

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

10. What do Paul and Coffey do with Mr. Jingles after Percy steps on it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paul considers his writing to be a time machine. In what ways does Paul’s writing take him back in time? Is he transported back physical, emotionally, or both? What is different about the way that Paul’s writing takes him back in time compared to how Wells’ time machine took someone back in time?

Essay Topic 2

Coffey is executed even though he is innocent. In what way are Paul’s and his co-workers’ hands tied when it comes to getting a stay of execution? Why don’t they even attempt to prove Coffey’s innocence to a higher authority? Do Coffey’s wishes have anything to do with the reasons why he was executed even though he was innocent?

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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