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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where at the Santa Monica pier has Easy agreed to meet Mr. Albright in the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) The merry-go-round.
(b) The movie theatre.
(c) The coffee shop.
(d) The bait shop.

2. Where is Junior Fornay from originally?
(a) Seattle, Washington.
(b) Houston, Texas.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

3. What is Joppy’s last name?
(a) Shag.
(b) Baxter.
(c) Parsons.
(d) Green.

4. In Chapter 2, Easy feels nervous about getting involved with Albright, because the white man reminds him of whom?
(a) Joppy.
(b) Shariff.
(c) Manny.
(d) Mouse.

5. Mouse informs Easy in his letter that he’s been kicked out by his wife for cheating with a woman named what in Chapter 7?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) Daphne.
(c) Coretta.
(d) Rosetta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mouse’s son that he mentions in his letter in Chapter 7?

2. What is the name of Easy’s former employer that he speaks with in Chapter 9?

3. In what neighborhood of Los Angeles does most of the action in Devil in a Blue Dress take place?

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

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

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