The Emperor Jones Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Emperor Jones Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?
(a) Running away from his parents' house.
(b) His time as a long-distance runner.
(c) His flight in America.
(d) An earlier native uprising.

2. How does Emperor Jones' flight recall his time in America?
(a) He lived in the forest there as well.
(b) He was always on the run from his wife and family.
(c) He was always traveling as a salesman.
(d) He did not have the resources he needed then, either.

3. What is the basis for Smithers' authority in the palace?
(a) He is the emperor.
(b) He is a medicine man.
(c) He is the emperor's right hand man.
(d) He is a white man.

4. What makes Emperor Jones laugh at the beginning of the second forest scene?
(a) His own foolishness.
(b) His freedom.
(c) His anticipation of escape.
(d) His apperance.

5. Which literary term defines Jeff's apparition?
(a) Psychomachy.
(b) Parody.
(c) Dream vision.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Emperor Jones helped Smithers?

2. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?

3. Why does Emperor Jones head for the forest at the end of the first scene?

4. What does Smithers tell Emperor Jones to look out for when Jones is leaving the palace?

5. Which literary device describes the increasing tempo of the tom-tom drumming?

(see the answer key)

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