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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dupree’s last name said to be in Chapter 10?
(a) Ball.
(b) Benson.
(c) Boone.
(d) Bouchard.

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

3. Easy notes that Mouse’s letter received in Chapter 7 was postmarked when?
(a) 4 days earlier.
(b) 2 days earlier.
(c) 2 months earlier.
(d) 2 weeks earlier.

4. Easy notices a line of what coming in through the window in the interrogation room in Chapter 10?
(a) Bees.
(b) Mice.
(c) Ants.
(d) Cockroaches.

5. How much money does Coretta make Easy promise to give her as a reward when he finds the white woman he’s searching for in Chapter 6?
(a) $10.
(b) $20.
(c) $75.
(d) $100.

6. What is the name of Mouse’s son that he mentions in his letter in Chapter 7?
(a) Dupree.
(b) LaMarque.
(c) Darcel.
(d) Shariff.

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

8. How has Daphne’s friend been murdered, according to the evidence found in Chapter 13?
(a) He was drugged.
(b) He was hung.
(c) He was stabbed.
(d) He was shot.

9. How does Daphne’s accent change after the discovery of her murdered friend in Chapter 13?
(a) It becomes Spanish.
(b) It becomes German.
(c) It becomes southern.
(d) It becomes Russian.

10. Mr. Albright asks for Easy’s help in locating whom in Chapter 3?
(a) Mr. Ling.
(b) Mrs. Guitierra.
(c) Daphne Monet.
(d) Barbara Moskowitz.

11. 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) Daphne.
(b) Lucinda.
(c) Coretta.
(d) Rosetta.

12. The boy that Matthew Teran keeps is described as being from where in Chapter 11?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Mexico.
(c) China.
(d) Canada.

13. What has Mr. Albright made for himself to drink while waiting for Easy to arrive at home in Chapter 15?
(a) A pot of tea.
(b) A glass of lemonade.
(c) A pot of coffee.
(d) A whiskey sour.

14. How much money does Mr. Albright give to Easy in Chapter 8?
(a) $50.
(b) $200.
(c) $25.
(d) $100.

15. Easy Rawlins expresses pride in owning what in the novel?
(a) A ranch.
(b) A dry cleaners.
(c) A home.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color hair is Mr. Albright said to have in the novel?

2. Which of the two policemen that approach Easy in Chapter 10 is described as “my height and three times my girth”?

3. What is the name of Mouse’s stepfather whom he killed?

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

5. How is Daphne Monet’s dialect described in Chapter 12?

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