View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which rhetorical term describes Emperor Jones' request for assistance?
(a) Supplication.
(b) Peroration.
(c) Dissimilation.
(d) Declamation.

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

4. Which literary device is employed in this first forest scene?
(a) Personification.
(b) Elegy.
(c) Literal meaning.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when the leader of that group turns his back to Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones shoots him with the silver bullet.
(b) Jones acts as if to hit him with a shovel.
(c) Jones acts as if to slit his throat.
(d) Jones runs into the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeff's appearance affect Jones' flight?

2. Where does the fifth forest scene open?

3. How well has Emperor Jones prepared for his flight from the palace?

4. What does Emperor Jones tell himself at the beginning of the third forest scene?

5. What structure predominates over the sixth forest scene?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 332 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample