The Green Mile Quizzes

The Green Mile Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of The Green Mile?
James Patterson

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Stephen King

Agatha Christie
2 What is unique about how The Green Mile was published?
It was published after the author died

It was published under a pseudonym

It was published after the movie came out

It was published in installments
3 Where does the novel take place?
At a psychiatric hospital

At a prison

At a boarding school

On a farm
4 Who is the narrator?
Percy Wetmore

John Coffey

Paul Edgecombe

An omniscient narrator
5 In what year does the majority of the novel take place?
1937

1929

1932

1956
6 Where does Paul work?
At Georgia Pines Penitentiary

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary

At Louisiana State Penitentiary

At Briar Ridge Penitentiary
7 What does the E Block refer to?
Where the inmates are sent after they die

Where the inmates on death row are held

Where the prison infirmary is

Where Warden Moores' office is
8 What is "Old Sparky"?
The nickname the inmates give to the electric chair

The man who pushes the snack cart

The nickname for Warden Moores

The mouse who lives in the prison
9 How does Percy personalize his prison guard outfit?
He adds fancy buttons to his jacket

He always wears special shoes

He has a custom-made holster for his baton

He has a custom-made holster for his gun
10 What is Paul's role at the prison?
He is just a regular prison guard

He is in charge of E Block

He's the prison warden

He is Warden Moores' second in command
11 What does Percy yell when escorting John Coffey to his cell?
You idiot

Big boy coming through

Dead Man Walking

Child murderer
12 What does Paul do when he meets Coffey that he's never done with another inmate?
Shake his hand

Yell at him

Allow Coffey to call him Paul

Hug him
13 What is Paul suprised by when he meets Coffey?
His tattoos

His size

How quiet he is

His scars
14 What other inmate is on E Block when Coffey arrives?
William Wharton

No one else is there

"The Chief" Bitterbuk

Eduard Delacroix
15 What crime is John Coffey accused of?
Raping and murdering the Detterick twins

Setting fire to six people inside a house

Beating his boss to death

Killing his father
16 Paul says the metal roof glares in the sun "like a delirious eyeball," this is an example of what literary device?
Simile

Metaphor

Foreshadowing

Overstatement
17 What was John Coffey doing when they arrested him?
Eating his sandwich

Crying as he buried the Detterick twins' bodies

Trying to run away

Crying and holding the Detterick twins' bodies
18 What were the Detterick girls doing when they were kidnapped from their house?
Sleeping on the screened in porch

Playing outside with their dog

Sleeping in their bedroom

Going outside to see the stars
19 What trick can Mr. Jingles do?
Walk on hind legs

Talk

Roll over

Play fetch with a wooden spool
20 Why is Paul feeling sick?
He has a migraine

He has a brain tumor

He hurt his foot

He has a urinary infection
21 What is unique for Paul about John Coffey's execution?
There was a technical malfunction

Paul got sick during the execution

It was his last

Coffey burned during the execution
22 What does Brutal find in the restraint room in the winter of 1932?
A note from Percy

The straightjacket they used on the inmates

Coffey's necklace

Mr. Jingles' hiding place
23 Why does Paul have to be careful about reprimanding Percy?
Percy is the governor's nephew

Percy is mentally unstable

Percy's father is the warden of the prison

Percy's family are criminals
24 What suggestion does Warden Moores give Paul in order to get rid of Percy?
Give him a promotion

Make him clean Old Sparky

Assign him to Delacroix's execution

Assign him to Coffey's execution
25 What is the Green Mile symbolic of?
The inmates' morality

The inmates' souls

The inmates' future

The inmates' death

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