The Green Mile Quizzes

The Green Mile Quiz 1

By Michelle Cameron · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed March 13, 2023

1 Who is the author of The Green Mile?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Agatha Christie

Stephen King

James Patterson
2 What is unique about how The Green Mile was published?

It was published in installments

It was published under a pseudonym

It was published after the movie came out

It was published after the author died
3 Where does the novel take place?

At a prison

On a farm

At a psychiatric hospital

At a boarding school
4 Who is the narrator?

John Coffey

An omniscient narrator

Percy Wetmore

Paul Edgecombe
5 In what year does the majority of the novel take place?

1929

1956

1937

1932
6 Where does Paul work?

At Georgia Pines Penitentiary

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary

At Briar Ridge Penitentiary

At Louisiana State Penitentiary
7 What does the E Block refer to?

Where the inmates on death row are held

Where Warden Moores' office is

Where the prison infirmary is

Where the inmates are sent after they die
8 What is "Old Sparky"?

The man who pushes the snack cart

The nickname the inmates give to the electric chair

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 has a custom-made holster for his baton

He always wears special shoes

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

He's the prison warden

He is in charge of E Block

He is Warden Moores' second in command

He is just a regular prison guard
11 What does Percy yell when escorting John Coffey to his cell?

Big boy coming through

Dead Man Walking

Child murderer

You idiot
12 What does Paul do when he meets Coffey that he's never done with another inmate?

Hug him

Allow Coffey to call him Paul

Shake his hand

Yell at him
13 What is Paul suprised by when he meets Coffey?

His size

How quiet he is

His scars

His tattoos
14 What other inmate is on E Block when Coffey arrives?

"The Chief" Bitterbuk

Eduard Delacroix

William Wharton

No one else is there
15 What crime is John Coffey accused of?

Raping and murdering the Detterick twins

Setting fire to six people inside a house

Killing his father

Beating his boss to death
16 Paul says the metal roof glares in the sun "like a delirious eyeball," this is an example of what literary device?

Simile

Foreshadowing

Metaphor

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

Eating his sandwich

Crying and holding the Detterick twins' bodies

Trying to run away

Crying as he buried the Detterick twins' bodies
18 What were the Detterick girls doing when they were kidnapped from their house?

Going outside to see the stars

Playing outside with their dog

Sleeping in their bedroom

Sleeping on the screened in porch
19 What trick can Mr. Jingles do?

Roll over

Play fetch with a wooden spool

Walk on hind legs

Talk
20 Why is Paul feeling sick?

He has a urinary infection

He hurt his foot

He has a migraine

He has a brain tumor
21 What is unique for Paul about John Coffey's execution?

It was his last

There was a technical malfunction

Coffey burned during the execution

Paul got sick during the execution
22 What does Brutal find in the restraint room in the winter of 1932?

The straightjacket they used on the inmates

A note from Percy

Mr. Jingles' hiding place

Coffey's necklace
23 Why does Paul have to be careful about reprimanding Percy?

Percy is the governor's nephew

Percy's father is the warden of the prison

Percy's family are criminals

Percy is mentally unstable
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

Assign him to Delacroix's execution

Make him clean Old Sparky
25 What is the Green Mile symbolic of?

The inmates' future

The inmates' morality

The inmates' souls

The inmates' death

What literary techniques are in The Green Mile?

Symbolism:

All the guards on E Block carry a baton but Percy is the only one that has a custom holster for his. Paul mentions this multiple times, finding it ridiculous. The fact that Percy has this custom holster is symbolic of all the ways he is...

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How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?

The Green Mile is a serialized novel in six installments: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile. In his "Foreword" to the first installment, The Two Dead...

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summary of the green Mile

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Asked by Gaana K R #1049371

Answered by Aslan on 9/22/2020 11:48 PM

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