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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which answer describes Jeff's movements?
(a) Languid.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Graceful.
(d) Robotic.

2. Who are the figures Emperor Jones sees working in this third forest scene?
(a) Lem and the witch doctor.
(b) Natives.
(c) Smithers and Lem.
(d) Slaves on a chain gang.

3. Why was Emperor Jones foolish to have fired his gun in the forest?
(a) The natives will know where he is.
(b) He is wasting his last remaining bullets.
(c) He is ruining the palace.
(d) He is killing natives and angering native leaders.

4. Who gestures to Emperor Jones to join the figures in the apparition?
(a) Smithers.
(b) The guard.
(c) One of the prisoners.
(d) The witch doctor.

5. What does Jones do when he appears at the beginning of the third forest scene?
(a) He encounters the witch doctor.
(b) He stops to catch his breath.
(c) He runs about wildly.
(d) He sees Jeff's apparition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?

2. How has Emperor Jones changed in the first four scenes?

3. What is Jeff doing when Emperor Jones sees him?

4. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of this first scene outside the palace?

5. What does Emperor Jones do to make Jeff disappear?

(see the answer key)

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