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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who gives Easy a ride home from John’s Place in Chapter 11?
2. In what neighborhood of Los Angeles does most of the action in Devil in a Blue Dress take place?
3. What has Mr. Albright made for himself to drink while waiting for Easy to arrive at home in Chapter 15?
4. The policemen who interrogate Easy in Chapter 10 ask where he was at five in the morning on what day?
5. Easy recognizes Matthew Teran from where in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the second security guards outside of Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What happens with Easy’s encounter with them?
2. What is the primary setting of Devil in a Blue Dress? How does the author depict this setting?
3. How is the setting of Joppy’s Bar described in the opening of Chapter 1? What are the clientele like here?
4. What led Easy to volunteer for combat in the flashback in Chapter 14? How does he describe this choice?
5. How does Easy deal with his encounter with the first security guard at Albright’s office in Chapter 3? Why?
6. Where does Easy take Daphne in Chapter 13? What do they find there?
7. What do the police question Easy about in Chapter 10? How does Easy respond?
8. What does Easy (and the reader) learn from Junior Fornay in Chapter 4?
9. Where does Easy go when he leaves the police station in Chapter 11? What interrupts his journey?
10. What are Easy Rawlins’s impressions of DeWitt Albright in Chapters 1 and 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of race as applied to the characters of the first, second, and third guards that Easy Rawlins encounters at the office of DeWitt Albright. How does Easy respond differently to each “authority figure” based on skin color and ethnicity? What does this say about Easy’s character?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Mouse and his role in Devil in a Blue Dress. How does Easy feel about his history with Mouse? How long did they know one another? How do Easy’s flashbacks and descriptions of Mouse compare with his reality when he enters the action of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Examine the characters of Maxim Baxter and Todd Carter in Devil in a Blue Dress. How does Easy relate to each of these characters? What makes Easy believe that Todd Carter is not a danger to Daphne Monet? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?
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