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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. What is the name of Mouse’s son that he mentions in his letter in Chapter 7?
2. Easy helps Coretta take who back to her place in Chapter 6?
3. Easy is awakened by a call from Junior in Chapter 12, telling him that he recalled seeing Daphne Monet with whom the previous week?
4. Where is Junior Fornay from originally?
5. In Chapter 2, Easy feels nervous about getting involved with Albright, because the white man reminds him of whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is DeWitt Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What does Albright ask Easy to do for him here?
2. Where does Easy take Daphne in Chapter 13? What do they find there?
3. How are the two policemen described that Easy encounters in Chapter 10?
4. How does Easy feel about going to the Santa Monica pier in Chapter 8? Whom does he first meet there?
5. How does Easy deal with his encounter with the first security guard at Albright’s office in Chapter 3? Why?
6. What does the character of Mouse represent symbolically in Devil in a Blue Dress?
7. What aspect of Easy’s character is revealed through his interactions with Coretta in Chapter 6?
8. What do Easy’s actions in Chapter 15 indicate about his character growth?
9. Who does Easy meet with in Chapter 9? What happens during this meeting?
10. What conflict takes place at the Santa Monica pier in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Describe and analyze the character of Odell Jones in the novel. How does the narrator describe Odell? What is Easy’s history with the character? What does Odell represent symbolically in the novel?
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