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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tried but failed to kill Emperor Jones?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Smithers.
(c) Jeff.
(d) Lem.

2. What is the setting where the play begins?
(a) In an American slave auction.
(b) In a Pullman car.
(c) In the forest.
(d) In the interior of a palace.

3. How has Emperor Jones helped Smithers?
(a) By installing him as Emperor.
(b) By killing the man who was cheating Smithers.
(c) By hiring him.
(d) By freeing him from jail.

4. What does Emperor Jones hear in the forest?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) A tom-tom drum.
(c) Whispering natives.
(d) Laughing ghosts.

5. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?
(a) They tell him to leave.
(b) They do not say anything.
(c) They tell him where to go.
(d) They predict his future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Emperor Jones look for the food he buried?

2. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?

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

4. What appears to Emperor Jones in the first scene in the forest?

5. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?

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