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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing Emperor Jones asks Smithers?
(a) What did he do wrong.
(b) Why white men are always in charge.
(c) Where everyone is.
(d) Who the old woman's children are.

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

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

4. Where did Emperor Jones learn the ways of the white man?
(a) A Pullman car.
(b) A welder on steam engines.
(c) A real estate business.
(d) A tracking and hunting outfit.

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

6. What does this third apparition tell us about Jones' past?
(a) That he was once a prison guard.
(b) That he was wrongly imprisoned.
(c) That he remembers spending time on a chain gang.
(d) That he has had hallucinations in the past.

7. Which character is the first to appear in the second scene in the forest?
(a) Emperor Jones.
(b) The witch doctor.
(c) Smithers.
(d) Jeff.

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

9. What kind of gun does Emperor Jones carry?
(a) Submachine gun.
(b) AK-47.
(c) Long-barreled revolver.
(d) Hunting rifle.

10. How has the beat of the tom-tom changed when the second forest scene opens?
(a) It is closer than before, but it is subdued.
(b) It has been joined by other drums.
(c) It is quieter, but it plays an angry rhythm.
(d) It is louder and closer than before.

11. What does Jeff say when Emperor Jones speaks to him?
(a) He vows revenge.
(b) He predicts Jones' death.
(c) He accuses Jones of killing him.
(d) He does not respond.

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

13. Where have all the natives gone when the play is just beginning?
(a) To the beach.
(b) To the USA.
(c) To the hills.
(d) To the palace.

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

15. What color is the throne?
(a) Bright red with an orange cushion.
(b) Dark green with a green cushion.
(c) Jet black with a woven mat cushion.
(d) Ivory with an animal fur cushion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to lift Emperor Jones' spirits at the beginning of the second forest scene?

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

3. Which literary term defines Jeff's apparition?

4. How has Emperor Jones helped Smithers?

5. Who are the figures Emperor Jones sees working in this third forest scene?

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