Q 01/05

The Green Mile won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award. Its author is best known for which earlier book?

A) Carrie

B) The Exorcist

C) Rosemary's Baby

D) Ghost Story

Answer · why

A) Carrie

Stephen King's 1974 debut. The Green Mile was also nominated for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award.

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

The first volume, The Two Dead Girls, came in March 1996 and the last, Coffey on the Mile, in August. King liked that readers could not skip to the en...

Q 03/05

Which Victorian author's practice inspired King to publish the story in installments?

A) Charles Dickens

B) Wilkie Collins

C) Thomas Hardy

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer · why

A) Charles Dickens

Agent Ralph Vicinanza pitched writing the book 'the same way it would be read'. King later grumbled the six parts cost about nineteen dollars.

Q 04/05

What gives the death row block its 'Green Mile' nickname?

A) The paint on the cell bars

B) The grassy hill the prison sits on

C) The linoleum on the floor

D) The guards' uniforms

Answer · why

C) The linoleum on the floor

It is the corridor the condemned walk down to the electric chair.

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.