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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Easy’s former employer that he speaks with in Chapter 9?
(a) Matthew Teran.
(b) Benny Giacomo.
(c) Junior Fornay.
(d) Odell Jones.

2. Why is Easy unhappy about going to Santa Monica at night in Chapter 8?
(a) It is a highly religious community.
(b) It is a white community.
(c) It is a Hispanic community.
(d) It is an all-black community.

3. When Easy visits Mr. Albright’s office in Chapter 3, he is initially flustered by the security guard he first encounters because he is what?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Hispanic.
(d) Asian.

4. Easy recalls in Chapter 14 that the first time his inner voice spoke to him was when he was trapped in a barn during the war where?
(a) In Normandy.
(b) In Clervaux.
(c) In Changsha.
(d) In Naples.

5. From which narrative point of view is Devil in a Blue Dress related?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) First person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Easy read the letter he receives from Mouse in Chapter 7?

2. What is Joppy’s last name?

3. What kind of vehicle pulls up beside Easy as he walks to John’s Place in the beginning of Chapter 11?

4. Where is John’s Place said to be located in Chapter 4?

5. About how old is Daphne described as being in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Easy Rawlins’s impressions of DeWitt Albright in Chapters 1 and 2?

2. How are the second security guards outside of Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What happens with Easy’s encounter with them?

3. What concerns Easy about his exchange with the police officers in Chapter 10?

4. From what narrative point of view is the story related? What is notable about this style?

5. How are the two policemen described that Easy encounters in Chapter 10?

6. How is John’s Place described in Chapter 4? What does the white man here ask Easy to do?

7. What are Easy’s initial impressions of Matthew Teran in Chapter 11?

8. What does Easy dream about in Chapter 12? What does his dream signify?

9. What does the character of Mouse represent symbolically in Devil in a Blue Dress?

10. What Biblical allusion can be seen in Chapter 3?

(see the answer keys)

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