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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 does Frank Green greet Easy when Easy returns to his home from Joppy’s in Chapter 21?

2. By what name does Daphne refer to Mr. Carter in Chapter 26?

3. What do Mouse and Dupree get drunk on in Chapter 24?

4. How old was Easy when his mother died?

5. Joppy tells Easy that he knows who murdered whom in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daphne explain her relationships to Frank Green and Todd Carter in Chapter 26?

2. What is significant about Easy’s flashback to the concentration camps in Chapter 20?

3. How does Easy elude police suspicion following the events of the story?

4. What confrontation takes place between Mouse and Easy in Chapter 19? How does this conflict conclude?

5. What clue does Easy present to Junior Fornay in Chapter 23? What is Junior’s response?

6. Where do Mouse and Easy go in Chapter 24? What do they do there?

7. What conflict breaks out at the barber shop in Chapter 19? Who does Easy leave with?

8. What does Mr. Carter offer to Easy in Chapter 17? How is his demeanor described?

9. What does Easy learn upon awakening in Chapter 28? What does his inner voice guide him to do?

10. What does Easy do upon arriving at Vernie’s in Chapter 18? Who does Easy speak with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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