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

2. Daphne convinces Easy to drive her to which friend’s house in Chapter 13?
(a) Richard’s.
(b) Lenny’s.
(c) Primo’s.
(d) Peter’s.

3. In what kind of car does Daphne leave after discovering her murdered friend in Chapter 13?
(a) A black Lincoln.
(b) A black Ford.
(c) A pink Studebaker.
(d) A white Cadillac.

4. How is Daphne Monet’s dialect described in Chapter 12?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Irish.
(d) Welsh.

5. Why is Easy unhappy about going to Santa Monica at night in Chapter 8?
(a) It is a white community.
(b) It is a highly religious community.
(c) It is an all-black community.
(d) It is a Hispanic community.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easy is awakened by a call from Junior in Chapter 12, telling him that he recalled seeing Daphne Monet with whom the previous week?

2. Who gives Easy a ride home from John’s Place in Chapter 11?

3. About how far from the police station is John’s Place said to be located in Chapter 11?

4. How much money does the driver of the car offer Easy to get in and speak with his passenger in Chapter 11?

5. How much money did Mouse take from his stepfather after killing him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Easy respond to Mouse’s murder in the flashback in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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