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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. Easy learns that who has been murdered when he makes it to John’s Place in Chapter 11?
(a) LaMarque.
(b) Coretta.
(c) Hattie.
(d) Lucinda.

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

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

4. Throughout his interactions with Mr. Albright, Easy’s inner voice tells him to do what in Chapter 15?
(a) Bide your time.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Stay cool.
(d) Run away.

5. Which of the two policemen that approach Easy in Chapter 10 is described as “tall and skinny”?
(a) Miller.
(b) Mitchell.
(c) Moore.
(d) Mason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of home is Daphne said to live in, in Chapter 13?

2. How much money did Mouse give to Easy for driving him to his stepfather’s to collect his inheritance?

3. Why is Easy unhappy about going to Santa Monica at night in Chapter 8?

4. When Mr. Albright appears at the Santa Monica pier, he tells the teenage boys badgering Easy that he’ll do what to them?

5. Easy helps Coretta take who back to her place in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Easy’s initial impressions of Matthew Teran in Chapter 11?

2. What do Easy’s actions in Chapter 15 indicate about his character growth?

3. Where does Easy go when he leaves the police station in Chapter 11? What interrupts his journey?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Easy feel about going to the Santa Monica pier in Chapter 8? Whom does he first meet there?

9. What is represented through the animal imagery in Chapter 10?

10. How are the second security guards outside of Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What happens with Easy’s encounter with them?

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