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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) Smithers.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Lem.
(d) The witch doctor.

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

3. What do the dark figures represent who Emperor Jones sees in the woods?
(a) His sins and evil deeds.
(b) His memories of his family.
(c) The souls of the people he has killed.
(d) The black people who came before him.

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

5. What does Smithers tell Emperor Jones to look out for when Jones is leaving the palace?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Lem.
(d) Armed natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of the scene at the edge of the forest?

2. What provision has Emperor Jones made in case of uprising?

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

4. How does Emperor Jones feel in the moments before he first sees the black figures in Act 1, Scene 2?

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

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