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

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

3. What does Emperor Jones decide to do after he rings for the servants?
(a) Send the army into the hills for the natives.
(b) Fortify the palace.
(c) Burn the palace down.
(d) Head for the hills.

4. How does Emperor Jones feel in the moments before he first sees the black figures in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Fatigued.
(b) Terrified.
(c) Free.
(d) Relieved.

5. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?
(a) Where Jones' food is.
(b) Where the natives are gathering.
(c) What the tom-tom means.
(d) When Jones will die.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Emperor Jones head for the forest at the end of the first scene?

4. What is Jeff wearing when Emperor Jones sees him?

5. How has Emperor Jones' appearance changed since the scene with the black figures?

(see the answer key)

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