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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emperor Jones head for the forest at the end of the first scene?
(a) To confront the natives.
(b) To avoid conflict with the natives.
(c) To distance himself from his own authority.
(d) To outflank the natives.

2. How well has Emperor Jones prepared for his flight from the palace?
(a) He has hidden the supplies that will get him to safety.
(b) He underestimated what he would need.
(c) He knows where to find what he needs in the forest.
(d) He has more than enough supplies to get him to safety.

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

4. What does Emperor Jones do when he is invited, with a gesture, to join the figures he sees in the third forest scene?
(a) He takes off his clothes.
(b) He leads the other prisoners in a revolt.
(c) He shoots at the figures.
(d) He picks up an imaginary shovel.

5. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?
(a) The tom-tom gets louder and closer.
(b) He kills a crocodile.
(c) He kills one of the native leaders.
(d) The tom-tom stops.

6. What does Smithers tell Emperor Jones to look out for when Jones is leaving the palace?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Lem.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Armed natives.

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

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

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

10. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?
(a) When Jones will die.
(b) What the tom-tom means.
(c) Where Jones' food is.
(d) Where the natives are gathering.

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

12. What is the throne in the palace made of?
(a) Precious metals and stones.
(b) Uncut wood.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Pearls and jewels.

13. 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.

14. What does Emperor Jones hear in the forest?
(a) A tom-tom drum.
(b) Laughing ghosts.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) Whispering natives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary device describes the increasing tempo of the tom-tom drumming?

2. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?

3. Where does the third forest scene begin?

4. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when Emperor Jones shoots at the leader?

5. What does the omnipresence of the tom-tom drumming tell us about Emperor Jones' state of mind?

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