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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The entrance to John’s Place is through the back wall of what establishment?
(a) A small grocery store.
(b) A laundromat.
(c) A car dealership.
(d) A bowling alley.

2. How many rooms comprise Easy Rawlins’s house?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. In what neighborhood of Los Angeles does most of the action in Devil in a Blue Dress take place?
(a) Elysian Park.
(b) La Verne.
(c) Lennox.
(d) Watts.

4. Junior and Easy discuss which mayoral candidate who suddenly dropped from the race in Chapter 4?
(a) Richard McGee.
(b) Benny Giacomo.
(c) Huey Barnes.
(d) Matthew Teran.

5. What kind of liquor does Mr. Albright keep a bottle of on his desk?
(a) Smirnoff.
(b) Patron.
(c) Bacardi.
(d) Wild Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the guards at Mr. Albright’s office is described as dark-skinned, like an East Indian, in Chapter 3?

2. DeWitt Albright is said to be a former lawyer from where?

3. Easy Rawlins expresses pride in owning what in the novel?

4. What is the name of the quiet, religious man that Easy sits next to at the bar in Chapter 5?

5. Easy tells Junior in Chapter 4 that he was fired from Champion for what reason?

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