Q 01/05

Which was the first published novel by Stephen King, author of The Green Mile?

A) Carrie

B) 'Salem's Lot

C) The Shining

D) The Stand

Answer · why

A) Carrie

Carrie: King threw his opening pages in the bin, but his wife Tabitha fished them out, read them and urged him to keep going.

Q 02/05

How was The Green Mile novel originally published?

A) As a hardcover with a sequel

B) In six monthly paperback volumes

C) As a magazine serial

D) As an audiobook first

Answer · why

B) In six monthly paperback volumes

In six monthly paperback volumes: King wanted the suspense of the old serials, where no reader could skip ahead to the ending and everyone had time to...

Q 03/05

Stephen King modelled the original release of The Green Mile on the practice of which Victorian novelist?

A) Charles Dickens

B) Wilkie Collins

C) Thomas Hardy

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer · why

A) Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: King put out the opening of the story before he knew how it would end, which bound him to finish it while readers could not peek ahea...

Q 04/05

In Stephen King's The Green Mile, what gives the death row block its nickname?

A) The paint on the cell bars

B) The prison's grassy hillside

C) The linoleum on the floor

D) The guards' uniforms

Answer · why

C) The linoleum on the floor

The linoleum on the floor: most prisons called the walk to the electric chair the Last Mile, but this one's faded lime-green floor earned it a name of...

Q 05/05

What is the name of the prison where the story takes place?

A) Shawshank State Prison

B) Cold Mountain Penitentiary

C) Briar Ridge Hospital

D) Trapingus County Jail

Answer · why

B) Cold Mountain Penitentiary

Briar Ridge is the mental hospital Percy is bound for; Trapingus County is where the murders happened.