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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 has Daphne’s friend been murdered, according to the evidence found in Chapter 13?
2. In what neighborhood of Los Angeles does most of the action in Devil in a Blue Dress take place?
3. Mr. Albright asks for Easy’s help in locating whom in Chapter 3?
4. Easy tells Junior in Chapter 4 that he was fired from Champion for what reason?
5. The entrance to John’s Place is through the back wall of what establishment?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the setting of Joppy’s Bar described in the opening of Chapter 1? What are the clientele like here?
2. What Biblical allusion can be seen in Chapter 3?
3. How does Easy respond to Mouse’s murder in the flashback in Chapter 7?
4. What do the police question Easy about in Chapter 10? How does Easy respond?
5. What does Easy’s “inner voice” advise him to do in Chapter 14?
6. Who does Easy meet with in Chapter 9? What happens during this meeting?
7. What led Easy to volunteer for combat in the flashback in Chapter 14? How does he describe this choice?
8. How is DeWitt Albright’s office described in Chapter 3? What does Albright ask Easy to do for him here?
9. How does Daphne’s persona change at the end of Chapter 13? Where does she go?
10. From what narrative point of view is the story related? What is notable about this style?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze Easy’s experiences in Normandy in World War II. How did Easy’s inner voice lead him out of harm’s way during the war? What does this voice symbolize in the novel? How did Easy’s experiences in the war shape him as a character?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the symbolism of the dead mouse and the ants in Chapter 10. What does the mouse represent symbolically? What themes does this symbolism relate to? What do the ants in this imagery represent?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the setting of Lion Investments in Chapter 17. Who are the characters that inhabit this setting? How are these individuals described? How does this setting differ from the settings in Watts?
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