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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. How is Daphne Monet’s dialect described in Chapter 12?
2. Who gives Easy a ride home from John’s Place in Chapter 11?
3. In what war did Easy Rawlins fight?
4. The woman who charges entrance to John’s Place tells Easy in Chapter 4 that who played there last week?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the primary setting of Devil in a Blue Dress? How does the author depict this setting?
2. Where does Easy take Daphne in Chapter 13? What do they find there?
3. What concerns Easy about his exchange with the police officers in Chapter 10?
4. How does Daphne’s persona change at the end of Chapter 13? Where does she go?
5. What led Easy to volunteer for combat in the flashback in Chapter 14? How does he describe this choice?
6. What aspect of Easy’s character is revealed through his interactions with Coretta in Chapter 6?
7. What does Easy’s “inner voice” advise him to do in Chapter 14?
8. How are Easy’s confrontations in Chapters 8 and 9 related?
9. What are Easy Rawlins’s impressions of DeWitt Albright in Chapters 1 and 2?
10. Who does Easy meet with in Chapter 9? What happens during this meeting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the theme of morality in Devil in a Blue Dress. Do you think that Easy Rawlins is a morally upstanding character? Why or why not? How do Easy’s actions in Chapter 6 illustrate his willingness to cross the lines of morality?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and analyze Easy’s experiences in Normandy in World War II. How did Easy’s inner voice lead him out of harm’s way during the war? What does this voice symbolize in the novel? How did Easy’s experiences in the war shape him as a character?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the character of Daphne Monet in Devil in a Blue Dress. How do Easy’s preconceived notions of Daphne compare with her reality when he first meets her in Chapter 13? How would you characterize Daphne’s behavior toward Easy? What secrets does Daphne harbor in the novel?
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