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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Emperor Jones helped Smithers?
(a) By killing the man who was cheating Smithers.
(b) By hiring him.
(c) By freeing him from jail.
(d) By installing him as Emperor.

2. Where does Emperor Jones look for the food he buried?
(a) In the hollow of a tree.
(b) In a clearing.
(c) Under a white rock.
(d) In a cave.

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

4. How far away was Emperor Jones' would-be assassin when the gun misfired?
(a) Point blank.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

5. What appears to Emperor Jones in the first scene in the forest?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Native soldiers.
(c) His memory of a slave auction.
(d) Black formless fears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emperor Jones tell the natives that only one person can kill him--who is that?

2. How does Emperor Jones feel when he is orienting himself in the forest?

3. What does Emperor Jones decide to do after he rings for the servants?

4. Which term describes how Emperor Jones speaks after he leaves the palace?

5. How does Emperor Jones feel in the moments before he first sees the black figures in Act 1, Scene 2?

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