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

2. How many rooms comprise Easy Rawlins’s house?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the policemen punches Easy in the gut and handcuffs him when he resists accompanying them to the police station in Chapter 10?

2. What boy yells at the teenage girl for talking to Easy in Chapter 8?

3. Easy notices a line of what coming in through the window in the interrogation room in Chapter 10?

4. What kind of liquor does Mr. Albright keep a bottle of on his desk?

5. Where is Junior Fornay from originally?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daphne’s persona change at the end of Chapter 13? Where does she go?

2. How is John’s Place described in Chapter 4? What does the white man here ask Easy to do?

3. Where does Easy take Daphne in Chapter 13? What do they find there?

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

5. From what narrative point of view is the story related? What is notable about this style?

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

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 Biblical allusion can be seen in Chapter 3?

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

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