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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 does Emperor Jones lose in the forest?
(a) His memory.
(b) His bearings.
(c) His gun.
(d) His past.

2. How does Emperor Jones feel at the beginning of the fifth forest scene?
(a) Exhausted.
(b) Free.
(c) Delirious.
(d) Triumphant.

3. How do the figures that Emperor Jones sees in the forest move?
(a) They try to stand but fall over.
(b) They walk on long tentacles.
(c) They run on long legs.
(d) They seethe and boil like an ocean.

4. What can we gather from the fact that Emperor Jones does not shoot anyone in the apparition in the fifth forest scene?
(a) He is so weak that he cannot shoot anyone.
(b) He is strong enough that he can escape without a gun.
(c) He is saving his last silver bullet for himself.
(d) The figures' despair is ongoing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Emperor Jones foolish to have fired his gun in the forest?

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

3. Of the people Emperor Jones sees in his vision in Act 1, Scene 4, one is in charge. What does he carry?

4. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of the fifth forest scene?

5. What are the figures carrying who Emperor Jones sees in the third forest scene?

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