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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the quiet, religious man that Easy sits next to at the bar in Chapter 5?
(a) Huey Barnes.
(b) Lawrence Wrightsmith.
(c) Vincent LeRoy.
(d) Odell Jones.

2. Easy tells Junior in Chapter 4 that he was fired from Champion for what reason?
(a) Beating up one of his coworkers.
(b) Calling in sick when he wasn’t.
(c) Showing up to work drunk.
(d) Refusing to work an extra shift.

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

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

5. What color hair is Mr. Albright said to have in the novel?
(a) Strawberry blond.
(b) Chestnut brown.
(c) Steel grey.
(d) Midnight black.

6. What does the voice in Easy’s head respond when he considers running like Odell suggested in Chapter 14?
(a) Worse be dead than on the run.
(b) Better be dead than leave.
(c) Worse be wounded than dead.
(d) Better be alive than dead.

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

8. Who reassures Easy in Chapter 2 that if he should get a bad feeling about Albright, he will help to fix the situation?
(a) Zeppo.
(b) Benny Giacomo.
(c) Frank Green.
(d) Joppy.

9. Matthew Teran asks Easy if he knows whom in Chapter 11?
(a) Mason.
(b) Howard Green.
(c) Benny Giacomo.
(d) Odell Jones.

10. About how far from the police station is John’s Place said to be located in Chapter 11?
(a) 2 blocks.
(b) 4 blocks.
(c) 9 blocks.
(d) 15 blocks.

11. In what war did Easy Rawlins fight?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War I.

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

13. When Easy took Mouse to ask his stepfather for his owed inheritance, who assists Mouse in holding up his stepfather?
(a) Clifton.
(b) Darcel.
(c) Reese.
(d) Richard.

14. The woman who charges entrance to John’s Place tells Easy in Chapter 4 that which chauffeur was beaten to death outside the bar last week?
(a) Matthew Teran.
(b) Junior Fornay.
(c) Benny Giacomo.
(d) Howard Green.

15. Where is John’s Place said to be located in Chapter 4?
(a) Waterfront Boulevard and Twenty-fourth.
(b) Central Avenue and Eighty-ninth Place.
(c) Skyler and Eighty-third.
(d) Mitchell and Second.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Easy begin his career within the army?

2. 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?

3. How much money does Mr. Albright give to Easy as a retainer in Chapter 3?

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

5. Easy informs Mr. Albright that Daphne is likely with a man named what, in Chapter 8?

(see the answer keys)

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