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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?
(a) Where Emperor Jones hid his food.
(b) Where the other whites have gone.
(c) Where she is going.
(d) When the natives are going to kill Emperor Jones.

2. Who is the first character to appear on stage?
(a) Smithers.
(b) Lem.
(c) An old woman.
(d) Emperor Jones.

3. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when the leader of that group turns his back to Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones shoots him with the silver bullet.
(b) Jones acts as if to hit him with a shovel.
(c) Jones runs into the forest.
(d) Jones acts as if to slit his throat.

4. How does Emperor Jones feel after he has seen the black figures?
(a) He steels himself against his fears.
(b) He is terrified and runs blindly into the forest.
(c) He has collected his thoughts and he has a plan.
(d) He is confident and laughing about his luck.

5. How does Emperor Jones say he killed Jeff?
(a) With his hands.
(b) With a gun.
(c) With a razor.
(d) He threw him off a train.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emperor Jones use to dispel his final vision?

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

3. Which answer describes Jeff's movements?

4. Which literary term describes the interaction between Emperor Jones' voice and the voices of the figures in his vision in the fifth forest scene?

5. What are the figures saying in Emperor Jones' vision in the fifth forest scene?

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