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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 sharp shooter.
(d) As a radio operator.

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

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

4. Daphne convinces Easy to drive her to which friend’s house in Chapter 13?
(a) Richard’s.
(b) Primo’s.
(c) Peter’s.
(d) Lenny’s.

5. Easy helps Coretta take who back to her place in Chapter 6?
(a) Ernest.
(b) Ricardo.
(c) Dupree.
(d) Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who charges entrance to John’s Place in Chapter 4?

2. Who reassures Easy in Chapter 2 that if he should get a bad feeling about Albright, he will help to fix the situation?

3. Easy recognizes Matthew Teran from where in Chapter 11?

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

5. What is Coretta’s last name said to be in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the setting of Joppy’s Bar described in the opening of Chapter 1? What are the clientele like here?

2. What led Easy to volunteer for combat in the flashback in Chapter 14? How does he describe this choice?

3. What Biblical allusion can be seen in Chapter 3?

4. What does Easy learn about Navrochet’s murder in the flashback in Chapter 4?

5. What concerns Easy about his exchange with the police officers in Chapter 10?

6. What is the primary setting of Devil in a Blue Dress? How does the author depict this setting?

7. What do the police question Easy about in Chapter 10? How does Easy respond?

8. How are the two policemen described that Easy encounters in Chapter 10?

9. What does the character of Mouse represent symbolically in Devil in a Blue Dress?

10. What aspect of Easy’s character is revealed through his interactions with Coretta in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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