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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which answer describes Jeff's movements?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Robotic.
(c) Languid.
(d) Powerful.

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

3. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when Emperor Jones shoots at the leader?
(a) Jeff returns on the side of the stage.
(b) The natives find him and chase him.
(c) The apparition disappears.
(d) Smithers brings him food.

4. What is the irony at the end of Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones manipulated the natives by saying that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but they killed him with a silver bullet after all.
(b) Jones had always claimed to be immortal, but the natives threatened his life and he showed them that he was afraid of death.
(c) Jones swore that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but he died of self-inflicted injuries and exhaustion.
(d) Jones had run away from imprisonment in America, and then he died of his freedom in the West Indies.

5. What is the state of Emperor Jones' clothing as the fourth forest scene begins?
(a) Proud and imperial.
(b) Dirty and tattered.
(c) Natty and neat.
(d) Primitive and proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the tom-tom drumming when Emperor Jones shoots at the apparition in the third forest scene?

2. What does Emperor Jones use to dispel his final vision?

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

4. What does the other figure in the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones intend to do?

5. How does Smithers say that Emperor Jones came into his position?

(see the answer key)

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