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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emperor Jones say he killed Jeff?
(a) With a razor.
(b) With his hands.
(c) With a gun.
(d) He threw him off a train.

2. How does Emperor Jones feel in the moments before he first sees the black figures in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Terrified.
(b) Fatigued.
(c) Free.
(d) Relieved.

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

4. Of the people Emperor Jones sees in his vision in Act 1, Scene 4, one is in charge. What does he carry?
(a) A shovel.
(b) Dice.
(c) A whip.
(d) A pick.

5. How has Emperor Jones' appearance changed since the scene with the black figures?
(a) He is all wet.
(b) He is dirtier and less majestic.
(c) He is more composed and neater.
(d) He is practically naked.

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

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

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

9. What does Emperor Jones feel when he sees Jeff in the second forest scene?
(a) Amazed.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Guilty.

10. Which literary term describes Emperor Jones' vision of Jeff?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Epiphany.
(d) Catharsis.

11. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?
(a) His time as a long-distance runner.
(b) His flight in America.
(c) Running away from his parents' house.
(d) An earlier native uprising.

12. How does Emperor Jones' flight recall his time in America?
(a) He did not have the resources he needed then, either.
(b) He lived in the forest there as well.
(c) He was always traveling as a salesman.
(d) He was always on the run from his wife and family.

13. Which statement describes the eyes of the figures whom Emperor Jones sees in the first forest scene?
(a) They glow.
(b) They are angry.
(c) They are blind.
(d) They are deformed.

14. Who does Emperor Jones see after he talks to himself when he enters in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Jeff.
(b) A chain gang.
(c) The natives.
(d) A marketplace full of slaves.

15. What color is Jones' uniform?
(a) Blue with gold chevrons.
(b) White with gold chevrons.
(c) Light blue with a red stripe.
(d) Black with gold stripes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Emperor Jones and Smithers keep each other in their respective roles?

2. What does Emperor Jones do when he is invited, with a gesture, to join the figures he sees in the third forest scene?

3. Emperor Jones tell the natives that only one person can kill him--who is that?

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

5. What does Emperor Jones lose in the forest?

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