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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What atmosphere does the drumming create during the fourth forest scene?
(a) Blood-boiling desperation.
(b) Meditative calm.
(c) Disorder and confusion.
(d) Artful beauty.

2. Where does the fifth forest scene open?
(a) In a clearing in the forest.
(b) In an overgrown part of the forest.
(c) At a crossroads in the forest.
(d) In the palace.

3. Where does Emperor Jones look for the food he buried?
(a) In the hollow of a tree.
(b) In a clearing.
(c) In a cave.
(d) Under a white rock.

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

5. Who gestures to Emperor Jones to join the figures in the apparition?
(a) One of the prisoners.
(b) Smithers.
(c) The witch doctor.
(d) The guard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How has the beat of the tom-tom changed when the second forest scene opens?

3. Is the apparition in the fourth forest scene from Emperor Jones' past?

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

5. What does the omnipresence of the tom-tom drumming tell us about Emperor Jones' state of mind?

(see the answer key)

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