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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 has Mr. Albright made for himself to drink while waiting for Easy to arrive at home in Chapter 15?
(a) A pot of coffee.
(b) A pot of tea.
(c) A whiskey sour.
(d) A glass of lemonade.

2. What is Joppy’s last name?
(a) Baxter.
(b) Shag.
(c) Green.
(d) Parsons.

3. Easy attempts to give money to Daphne for what in Chapter 13?
(a) Cab fare.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Rent.
(d) Food.

4. Which of the policemen punches Easy in the gut and handcuffs him when he resists accompanying them to the police station in Chapter 10?
(a) Moore.
(b) Mason.
(c) Mitchell.
(d) Miller.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Mr. Albright give to Easy in Chapter 15?

2. What address does Easy tell Mr. Albright that Daphne is likely at with another man in Chapter 8?

3. Matthew Teran asks Easy if he knows whom in Chapter 11?

4. Junior and Easy discuss which mayoral candidate who suddenly dropped from the race in Chapter 4?

5. What object does Daphne take with her, saying it belongs to her friend, in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. How are the two policemen described that Easy encounters in Chapter 10?

6. What do the police question Easy about in Chapter 10? How does Easy respond?

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

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

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

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

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