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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 the motel where Easy goes to get Daphne in Chapter 25?

2. Joppy tells Easy in Chapter 21 that he knew Daphne because she came in with whom on liquor deliveries?

3. What does Mouse say he’s going to do with his share of the money in Chapter 30?

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

5. Where does Easy go to find Mr. Albright’s house in Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Easy go about ambushing Albright and Joppy in Chapter 29?

2. How does Easy’s character transition in Chapter 18? What leads this transition?

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

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

5. What leads Easy to the office of Lion Investments in Chapter 17?

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

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

8. What agreements do Mouse and Easy make at the end of Chapter 21?

9. What information does Joppy reveal to Easy in Chapter 21?

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

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

Describe and discuss the protagonist Easy Rawlins in the novel. Given that the story is told from Easy’s point of view, how can the reader determine Easy’s personality objectively? What is revealed of Easy’s past? Do you think that the author develops this character in a way that makes him likable to the reader? Why or why not?

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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