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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 apparition disappears.
(c) Smithers brings him food.
(d) The natives find him and chase him.

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

3. What does Emperor Jones do after he shoots at the apparition in the third forest scene?
(a) He looks around for food.
(b) He celebrates his freedom.
(c) He heads back to the palace.
(d) He flees into the forest.

4. Where does the third forest scene begin?
(a) At a wide, flat road.
(b) At a burial ground.
(c) At the palace.
(d) At a well.

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

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

7. What does Emperor Jones decide to do after he rings for the servants?
(a) Fortify the palace.
(b) Send the army into the hills for the natives.
(c) Head for the hills.
(d) Burn the palace down.

8. The allegorical appearance of figures can also be described as what literary device?
(a) Vision quest.
(b) Realism.
(c) Dream vision.
(d) Symbolism.

9. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?
(a) When the natives are going to kill Emperor Jones.
(b) Where the other whites have gone.
(c) Where Emperor Jones hid his food.
(d) Where she is going.

10. What literary term describes Emperor Jones' language when he shoots at the apparition?
(a) Exclamation.
(b) Interrogation.
(c) Declaration.
(d) Inquiry.

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

12. 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 walk on long tentacles.
(d) They try to stand but fall over.

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

14. How does Smithers say that Emperor Jones came into his position?
(a) A silver bullet.
(b) A power-sharing deal.
(c) An election.
(d) A military coup.

15. What are the figures carrying who Emperor Jones sees in the third forest scene?
(a) Picks and shovels.
(b) Guns and shields.
(c) Bows and arrows.
(d) Bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the throne?

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

3. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?

4. Where does Emperor Jones look for the food he buried?

5. What color is Jones' uniform?

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