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

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

3. How do the figures that Emperor Jones sees in the forest move?
(a) They walk on long tentacles.
(b) They try to stand but fall over.
(c) They seethe and boil like an ocean.
(d) They run on long legs.

4. What is the tone of the scene at the edge of the forest?
(a) Panic.
(b) Humor.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Confidence.

5. When does Emperor Jones notice the tom-tom?
(a) When he thinks he hears footsteps.
(b) When he hears laughter in the forest.
(c) When he cannot find his food.
(d) When he fires his gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emperor Jones do to make Jeff disappear?

2. What atmosphere does the tom-tom drumming create?

3. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?

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

5. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?

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