The Green Mile Quizzes

The Green Mile Quiz 1

1 Who is the author of The Green Mile?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Agatha Christie

James Patterson

Stephen King
2 What is unique about how The Green Mile was published?
It was published in installments

It was published after the movie came out

It was published after the author died

It was published under a pseudonym
3 Where does the novel take place?
At a boarding school

On a farm

At a psychiatric hospital

At a prison
4 Who is the narrator?
Percy Wetmore

Paul Edgecombe

An omniscient narrator

John Coffey
5 In what year does the majority of the novel take place?
1932

1929

1956

1937
6 Where does Paul work?
At Briar Ridge Penitentiary

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary

At Georgia Pines Penitentiary

At Louisiana State Penitentiary
7 What does the E Block refer to?
Where the inmates on death row are held

Where the prison infirmary is

Where the inmates are sent after they die

Where Warden Moores' office is
8 What is "Old Sparky"?
The mouse who lives in the prison

The nickname for Warden Moores

The nickname the inmates give to the electric chair

The man who pushes the snack cart
9 How does Percy personalize his prison guard outfit?
He has a custom-made holster for his baton

He always wears special shoes

He has a custom-made holster for his gun

He adds fancy buttons to his jacket
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?
Dead Man Walking

You idiot

Child murderer

Big boy coming through
12 What does Paul do when he meets Coffey that he's never done with another inmate?
Yell at him

Shake his hand

Hug him

Allow Coffey to call him Paul
13 What is Paul suprised by when he meets Coffey?
His size

His scars

His tattoos

How quiet he is
14 What other inmate is on E Block when Coffey arrives?
Eduard Delacroix

William Wharton

"The Chief" Bitterbuk

No one else is there
15 What crime is John Coffey accused of?
Beating his boss to death

Setting fire to six people inside a house

Raping and murdering the Detterick twins

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?
Foreshadowing

Overstatement

Simile

Metaphor
17 What was John Coffey doing when they arrested him?
Crying and holding the Detterick twins' bodies

Crying as he buried the Detterick twins' bodies

Trying to run away

Eating his sandwich
18 What were the Detterick girls doing when they were kidnapped from their house?
Playing outside with their dog

Going outside to see the stars

Sleeping in their bedroom

Sleeping on the screened in porch
19 What trick can Mr. Jingles do?
Play fetch with a wooden spool

Talk

Walk on hind legs

Roll over
20 Why is Paul feeling sick?
He has a brain tumor

He hurt his foot

He has a urinary infection

He has a migraine
21 What is unique for Paul about John Coffey's execution?
Paul got sick during the execution

It was his last

There was a technical malfunction

Coffey burned during the execution
22 What does Brutal find in the restraint room in the winter of 1932?
Coffey's necklace

A note from Percy

The straightjacket they used on the inmates

Mr. Jingles' hiding place
23 Why does Paul have to be careful about reprimanding Percy?
Percy's father is the warden of the prison

Percy is mentally unstable

Percy is the governor's nephew

Percy's family are criminals
24 What suggestion does Warden Moores give Paul in order to get rid of Percy?
Assign him to Coffey's execution

Give him a promotion

Make him clean Old Sparky

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

The inmates' death

The inmates' morality

The inmates' souls

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