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

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

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

4. Mouse informs Easy in his letter that he’s been kicked out by his wife for cheating with a woman named what in Chapter 7?
(a) Daphne.
(b) Rosetta.
(c) Coretta.
(d) Lucinda.

5. DeWitt Albright is said to be a former lawyer from where?
(a) Maine.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How much money does Mr. Albright give to Easy in Chapter 8?

3. How many rooms comprise Easy Rawlins’s house?

4. Easy Rawlins expresses pride in owning what in the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is revealed in Mouse’s letter to Easy in Chapter 7? How does Easy respond to the letter?

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

4. What does Easy’s “inner voice” advise him to do in Chapter 14?

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

6. What are Easy Rawlins’s impressions of DeWitt Albright in Chapters 1 and 2?

7. Who does Easy meet with in Chapter 9? What happens during this meeting?

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

9. What does Easy (and the reader) learn from Junior Fornay in Chapter 4?

10. How are Easy’s confrontations in Chapters 8 and 9 related?

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