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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the figures carrying who Emperor Jones sees in the third forest scene?
(a) Bows and arrows.
(b) Guns and shields.
(c) Bodies.
(d) Picks and shovels.

2. What does Emperor Jones throw into the bushes?
(a) His striped pants.
(b) His food.
(c) His jacket and spurs.
(d) His gun.

3. What does this third apparition tell us about Jones' past?
(a) That he was once a prison guard.
(b) That he remembers spending time on a chain gang.
(c) That he was wrongly imprisoned.
(d) That he has had hallucinations in the past.

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

5. Is Emperor Jones moving any closer to freedom in the fifth forest scene?
(a) He is losing freedom, but gaining wisdom.
(b) He is trading freedom for responsibility.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the tom-tom drumming when Emperor Jones shoots at the apparition in the third forest scene?

2. How much light is there in the scene where Emperor Jones sees the formless black figures?

3. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?

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

5. What does Emperor Jones hear in the forest?

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