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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 does Jones do when he appears at the beginning of the third forest scene?
(a) He encounters the witch doctor.
(b) He runs about wildly.
(c) He stops to catch his breath.
(d) He sees Jeff's apparition.

2. Emperor Jones tell the natives that only one person can kill him--who is that?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Smithers.
(c) The ghost of Jeff.
(d) Emperor Jones himself.

3. The black figures that Emperor Jones sees in the first forest scene are amused by what?
(a) Emperor Jones' panic.
(b) Emperor Jones' clothing.
(c) Emperor Jones' language.
(d) Emperor Jones' gun.

4. How are the figures positioned in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?
(a) They surround Jones like a hostile mob.
(b) They are stacked the way slaves were stacked on slave ships.
(c) They are seated with their backs against the forest walls.
(d) They are huddled together in a mass.

5. What apparition does Emperor Jones see in this fourth forest scene?
(a) A trial in court.
(b) A slave auction.
(c) A prison scene.
(d) A slave uprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the figures move in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?

2. Where have all the natives gone when the play is just beginning?

3. Which musical term describes the change in the sound of the tom-tom at the end of the fourth forest scene?

4. What happens to Emperor Jones when he sees the apparition in the third forest scene?

5. The allegorical appearance of figures can also be described as what literary device?

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