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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Easy informs Mr. Albright that Daphne is likely with a man named what, in Chapter 8?
(a) Frank Green.
(b) Howard Green.
(c) Huey Barnes.
(d) Junior Fornay.

3. When asked where he was at 5 a.m. by the police in Chapter 10, Easy responds that he escorted which drunken friend home from a nightclub?
(a) Henry.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Clifton.
(d) Peter.

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

5. Mr. Albright asks for Easy’s help in locating a white woman who frequents what establishments in Easy’s L.A. neighborhood?
(a) Jazz clubs.
(b) Dog fights.
(c) Horse races.
(d) Churches.

6. How did Easy begin his career within the army?
(a) As a typist in the statistics unit.
(b) As a combat nurse.
(c) As a radio operator.
(d) As a sharp shooter.

7. How much money does Mr. Albright give to Easy in Chapter 15?
(a) $175.
(b) $100.
(c) $40.
(d) $240.

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

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

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

11. Which of the guards at Mr. Albright’s office is described as possibly Chinese?
(a) Shariff.
(b) Zeppo.
(c) Manny.
(d) Ernest.

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

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

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) Junior Fornay.
(b) Howard Green.
(c) Benny Giacomo.
(d) Matthew Teran.

15. When Easy visits Mr. Albright’s office in Chapter 3, he is initially flustered by the security guard he first encounters because he is what?
(a) Hispanic.
(b) Asian.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easy drives Daphne to a small A-frame house above what neighborhood in Chapter 13?

2. How much money does a white man offer to Easy to help him get into John’s Place in Chapter 4?

3. How does Daphne’s accent change after the discovery of her murdered friend in Chapter 13?

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

5. Where at the Santa Monica pier has Easy agreed to meet Mr. Albright in the beginning of Chapter 8?

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