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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Emperor Jones notice the tom-tom?
(a) When he fires his gun.
(b) When he thinks he hears footsteps.
(c) When he cannot find his food.
(d) When he hears laughter in the forest.

2. What do the natives mistakenly think about Emperor Jones?
(a) He is a god.
(b) He is a murderer.
(c) He has mysterious powers.
(d) He is a runaway felon.

3. How do Emperor Jones and Smithers keep each other in their respective roles?
(a) They agree to share power.
(b) They know secrets about each other.
(c) They kill each other's enemies.
(d) They plot together against the medicine man.

4. Who are the figures Emperor Jones sees working in this third forest scene?
(a) Lem and the witch doctor.
(b) Natives.
(c) Slaves on a chain gang.
(d) Smithers and Lem.

5. Which literary term describes the structure of the first three forest scenes?
(a) Monologues.
(b) Catharses.
(c) Vignettes.
(d) Dialogues.

6. What appears to Emperor Jones in the first scene in the forest?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) His memory of a slave auction.
(c) Black formless fears.
(d) Native soldiers.

7. What makes Emperor Jones laugh at the beginning of the second forest scene?
(a) His freedom.
(b) His anticipation of escape.
(c) His apperance.
(d) His own foolishness.

8. How far away was Emperor Jones' would-be assassin when the gun misfired?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) Point blank.
(d) 20 feet.

9. Who tried but failed to kill Emperor Jones?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Smithers.
(c) The witch doctor.
(d) Lem.

10. What happens when Emperor Jones rings for the servants?
(a) They all come running.
(b) They come and shoot him.
(c) No one comes.
(d) They begin to drum in the forest.

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

12. How does Emperor Jones feel when he is orienting himself in the forest?
(a) Reflective.
(b) Panicked.
(c) Warlike.
(d) Nostalgic.

13. How does Jeff's appearance affect Jones' flight?
(a) He feels that he will not escape from his past, no matter how far he runs.
(b) He thinks that he can go back to America and make everything right.
(c) He makes Jones desperate to escape from himself.
(d) He feels that if he can just escape from the island he will be safe.

14. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?
(a) They tell him where to go.
(b) They do not say anything.
(c) They predict his future.
(d) They tell him to leave.

15. What is Jeff wearing when Emperor Jones sees him?
(a) A loincloth and cartridge belt.
(b) A Pullman porter's suit.
(c) A loincloth.
(d) Jones' old clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emperor Jones feel in the moments before he first sees the black figures in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. Where did Emperor Jones learn the ways of the white man?

3. Who is the first character to appear on stage?

4. How do the figures that Emperor Jones sees in the forest move?

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

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