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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 Joppy’s last name?
2. In Chapter 2, Easy feels nervous about getting involved with Albright, because the white man reminds him of whom?
3. What kind of vehicle pulls up beside Easy as he walks to John’s Place in the beginning of Chapter 11?
4. Easy learns that who has been murdered when he makes it to John’s Place in Chapter 11?
5. DeWitt Albright is said to be a former lawyer from where?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Daphne’s persona change at the end of Chapter 13? Where does she go?
2. What are Easy’s initial impressions of Matthew Teran in Chapter 11?
3. What are Easy Rawlins’s impressions of DeWitt Albright in Chapters 1 and 2?
4. What led Easy to volunteer for combat in the flashback in Chapter 14? How does he describe this choice?
5. How does Easy feel about going to the Santa Monica pier in Chapter 8? Whom does he first meet there?
6. What is the primary setting of Devil in a Blue Dress? How does the author depict this setting?
7. Who is the “door person” at John’s Place? What does Easy learn from this character in Chapter 4?
8. What concerns Easy about his exchange with the police officers in Chapter 10?
9. What does Easy’s “inner voice” advise him to do in Chapter 14?
10. Where does Easy go when he leaves the police station in Chapter 11? What interrupts his journey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the character of Matthew Teran in Devil in a Blue Dress. How does Easy describe Teran when he meets him? What prevents Easy from taking Teran’s money when he leaves the car? Who is the little boy that Teran keeps with him?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Easy’s encounter with the police in Chapter 10. How does this interaction reinforce the theme of racism and prejudice in the novel? How does Easy respond to his treatment? How does his response differ from his reactions to Benny Giacomo? Why?
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