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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which musical term describes the change in the sound of the tom-tom at the end of the fourth forest scene?
(a) Sforzando.
(b) Decrescendo.
(c) Pianissimo.
(d) Crescendo.

2. The fact that Emperor Jones is killed by a silver bullet made from money is a form of what?
(a) Epiphany.
(b) Irony.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Foreshadowing.

3. What structure predominates over the sixth forest scene?
(a) The palace.
(b) A slave ship.
(c) A rough stone altar.
(d) A prison.

4. What role is Emperor Jones supposed to play in the other person in the sixth scene's plans?
(a) Jones is supposed to be the sacrificial offering.
(b) Jones is supposed to preside over the sacrificial offering.
(c) Jones is supposed to receive the figure's blessings.
(d) Jones is supposed to let kill himself.

5. What is the irony of the silver bullet?
(a) It started as money and ended the natives' poverty.
(b) It cost the natives money to make it, but it saves them money as well.
(c) It liberates the natives, but kills Emperor Jones.
(d) It ends the natives' oppression, but now they are murderers.

6. Where does the fifth forest scene open?
(a) In the palace.
(b) In an overgrown part of the forest.
(c) In a clearing in the forest.
(d) At a crossroads in the forest.

7. What is Emperor Jones afraid of at the beginning of the fifth forest scene?
(a) Imminent capture.
(b) Lem.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Formless fears.

8. Which term describes the tone of the fourth forest scene?
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Nightmare.
(d) Satyr play.

9. How do the figures move in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?
(a) Rhythmically, as if they were rowing.
(b) In a frenzy, as if they were dancing.
(c) Calmly, as if they were reassuring him.
(d) Violently, as if they were being tortured.

10. What does Smithers have difficulty believing in the final scene?
(a) That Jones ever positioned himself to rule over the natives.
(b) That he himself had not been emperor in Jones' place.
(c) That Lem and his soldiers have been tracking Emperor Jones all night.
(d) That Jones evaded Lem and his soldiers all night.

11. Emperor Jones sees a scene in Act 1 Scene 5. Where does one of the figures in his vision gesture for him to stand?
(a) On a guillotine.
(b) On a stump.
(c) On an auction stage.
(d) On a throne.

12. What does Emperor Jones feel when he realizes his part in the vision he sees in the fourth forest scene?
(a) Repentant.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Vengeful.
(d) Powerful.

13. Whose experience is Emperor Jones envisioning in the fifth forest scene?
(a) His own.
(b) His ancestors'.
(c) Smithers'.
(d) Jeff's.

14. Which literary term describes a plot in which two characters effectively change places?
(a) Anacoluthon.
(b) Prosopopeia.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Ekphrasis.

15. What does Emperor Jones say at the beginning of the fifth forest scene?
(a) He vows to kill Smithers.
(b) He is only moaning.
(c) He tells himself that he will be free.
(d) He pleads for mercy because of his suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smithers ask Emperor Jones after the natives bring him in during the final scene?

2. Who enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones?

3. What apparition does Emperor Jones see in this fourth forest scene?

4. What does Lem tell Smithers when Smithers does not believe what he tells him in the final scene?

5. What is the tone of Emperor Jones' vision in the fifth forest scene?

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