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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) Daphne Monet.
(b) Mr. Ling.
(c) Mrs. Guitierra.
(d) Barbara Moskowitz.

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

3. In what neighborhood of Los Angeles does most of the action in Devil in a Blue Dress take place?
(a) La Verne.
(b) Watts.
(c) Lennox.
(d) Elysian Park.

4. What kind of car does Easy find parked outside his house when he returns home in the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) A black Ford.
(b) A pink Studebaker.
(c) A brown Lincoln.
(d) A white Cadillac.

5. What address does Easy tell Mr. Albright that Daphne is likely at with another man in Chapter 8?
(a) Washington Boulevard and Forty-fifth.
(b) Skyler and Eighty-third.
(c) Jefferson and Nineteenth.
(d) Central Avenue and Eighty-ninth Place.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Daphne Monet’s home described in Chapter 13? What is symbolic about Daphne’s interior design?

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

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

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

5. How is DeWitt Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What does Albright ask Easy to do for him here?

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

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 Biblical allusion can be seen in Chapter 3?

10. What conflict takes place at the Santa Monica pier in Chapter 8?

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