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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which literary device is employed in this first forest scene?
(a) Personification.
(b) Literal meaning.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Elegy.

2. What is the basis for Smithers' authority in the palace?
(a) He is the emperor.
(b) He is a medicine man.
(c) He is the emperor's right hand man.
(d) He is a white man.

3. How does Emperor Jones' flight recall his time in America?
(a) He did not have the resources he needed then, either.
(b) He lived in the forest there as well.
(c) He was always on the run from his wife and family.
(d) He was always traveling as a salesman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How well has Emperor Jones prepared for his flight from the palace?

3. How does Smithers say that Emperor Jones came into his position?

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

5. How does Emperor Jones return to the forest at the end of the second forest scene?

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