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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which rhetorical term describes Emperor Jones' request for assistance?
(a) Declamation.
(b) Peroration.
(c) Dissimilation.
(d) Supplication.

2. What does the setting in the fifth forest scene represent?
(a) The hold of a slave ship.
(b) A graveyard.
(c) The barracks of a plantation.
(d) A prison cell.

3. Which answer represents the setting when the last scene opens?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Sunset.
(c) Noon.
(d) Middle of the night.

4. How does Emperor Jones feel at the beginning of the fifth forest scene?
(a) Delirious.
(b) Free.
(c) Triumphant.
(d) Exhausted.

5. How does the tone of the fifth forest scene change?
(a) From despair to redemptive ancestor-pride.
(b) From despair to abject horror.
(c) From exhaustion to exhilaration.
(d) From dread to misery.

6. What has the forest come to symbolize over the course of the five forest scenes so far?
(a) The chaos at the heart of the universe.
(b) Emperor Jones' racial history.
(c) The redemptive fecundity of nature.
(d) The darkness in the heart of men.

7. How has time progressed in Emperor Jones' first five visions?
(a) Forward to the current state of American blacks.
(b) Back to American blacks' roots in Africa.
(c) Back to the beginning of slavery.
(d) Back to Jones' personal origins.

8. Which literary term describes the interaction between Emperor Jones' voice and the voices of the figures in his vision in the fifth forest scene?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Syncopation.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Cacophony.

9. Which religion predominates in Emperor Jones' final vision?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Voodoo.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Born again Christianity.

10. Someone enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones. What does that person do?
(a) Prays with Jones.
(b) Dances right in front of Emperor Jones.
(c) Kills Jones.
(d) Offers to help Jones.

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

12. What can we gather from the fact that Emperor Jones does not shoot anyone in the apparition in the fifth forest scene?
(a) He is so weak that he cannot shoot anyone.
(b) The figures' despair is ongoing.
(c) He is saving his last silver bullet for himself.
(d) He is strong enough that he can escape without a gun.

13. 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 stump.
(b) On a guillotine.
(c) On an auction stage.
(d) On a throne.

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

15. What is the significance of Emperor Jones dispelling his final vision?
(a) He has chosen to die for his sins.
(b) He does not have anything left to protect himself with.
(c) He has finally overcome all of the things that could hurt him.
(d) He has been reduced to the level of the natives who are looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we learn from the interaction between what Emperor Jones says and what the figures say in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?

2. How have the tom-tom beats changed at the end of the sixth forest scene?

3. How does Emperor Jones feel about the thing he throws into the bushes in the fourth forest scene?

4. Someone enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones. What does that figure represent to Emperor Jones?

5. What is the irony of the silver bullet?

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