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

2. What object does Daphne take with her, saying it belongs to her friend, in Chapter 13?
(a) A suitcase.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A hat.
(d) A painting.

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

4. How much money does a white man offer to Easy to help him get into John’s Place in Chapter 4?
(a) $5.
(b) $10.
(c) $20.
(d) $35.

5. Easy is awakened by a call from Junior in Chapter 12, telling him that he recalled seeing Daphne Monet with whom the previous week?
(a) Huey Barnes.
(b) Matthew Teran.
(c) Frank Green.
(d) Mr. Albright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the voice in Easy’s head respond when he considers running like Odell suggested in Chapter 14?

2. What is the name of Easy’s former employer that he speaks with in Chapter 9?

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

4. Easy attempts to give money to Daphne for what in Chapter 13?

5. What dead creature does Easy notice in the interrogation room at the police station in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Easy deal with his encounter with the first security guard at Albright’s office in Chapter 3? Why?

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

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

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