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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mr. Albright appears at the Santa Monica pier, he tells the teenage boys badgering Easy that he’ll do what to them?
(a) Shoot off their testicles.
(b) Hang them from a tree.
(c) Cut off their fingers.
(d) Run them over with his truck.

2. What kind of vehicle pulls up beside Easy as he walks to John’s Place in the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) A red Ford.
(b) A white Jaguar.
(c) A black Cadillac.
(d) A green Mercedes.

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

4. How much money did Mouse take from his stepfather after killing him?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $2,800.
(c) $6,300.
(d) $500.

5. What is the name of Easy’s former employer that he speaks with in Chapter 9?
(a) Odell Jones.
(b) Junior Fornay.
(c) Benny Giacomo.
(d) Matthew Teran.

6. 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) Mouse.
(b) Peter.
(c) Clifton.
(d) Henry.

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

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

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

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

11. How is Daphne Monet’s dialect described in Chapter 12?
(a) Welsh.
(b) French.
(c) British.
(d) Irish.

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

13. What kind of car does Easy find parked outside his house when he returns home in the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) A black Ford.
(b) A brown Lincoln.
(c) A white Cadillac.
(d) A pink Studebaker.

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

15. Easy recalls in Chapter 14 that the first time his inner voice spoke to him was when he was trapped in a barn during the war where?
(a) In Changsha.
(b) In Naples.
(c) In Clervaux.
(d) In Normandy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Easy Rawlins from originally?

2. What does Easy note Mr. Albright is wearing when he arrives at his office in Chapter 3?

3. What does Easy use to pick up a clue by the dead man in Chapter 13?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the teenage girl that approaches Easy in Santa Monica in Chapter 8?

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