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

2. How does the second forest scene open?
(a) The moon sets.
(b) The sun sets.
(c) The moon rises.
(d) The sun rises.

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

4. How do Emperor Jones and Smithers keep each other in their respective roles?
(a) They plot together against the medicine man.
(b) They kill each other's enemies.
(c) They agree to share power.
(d) They know secrets about each other.

5. What is the first thing Emperor Jones asks Smithers?
(a) Why white men are always in charge.
(b) Who the old woman's children are.
(c) Where everyone is.
(d) What did he do wrong.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The black figures that Emperor Jones sees in the first forest scene are amused by what?

4. What happens when Emperor Jones rings for the servants?

5. What wrongdoing does Emperor Jones admit to in the fourth forest scene?

(see the answer key)

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