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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lem tell Smithers when Smithers does not believe what he tells him in the final scene?
(a) He tells Smithers that the witch doctor put a spell on Emperor Jones.
(b) He pledges to rid the island of whites and emperors.
(c) He recounts Emperor Jones' sins and describes Jones' death.
(d) He insists they have almost caught Emperor Jones.

3. Which term describes the development of the plot of Emperor Jones?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Kuntzleroman.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Bildungsroman.

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

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

6. 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?
(a) That he will continue to run until he dies.
(b) That he is in the same position as the slaves.
(c) That he is sorry for his sins.
(d) That he is still in charge of the natives.

7. Where is the tom-tom coming from in the last scene?
(a) Very close by.
(b) Right on stage.
(c) Back at the palace.
(d) Off at a distance.

8. Who does Emperor Jones stand in for in the fourth forest scene?
(a) All black American men.
(b) All slave buyers.
(c) All black men.
(d) All slaves.

9. How are the figures positioned in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?
(a) They are seated with their backs against the forest walls.
(b) They are huddled together in a mass.
(c) They are stacked the way slaves were stacked on slave ships.
(d) They surround Jones like a hostile mob.

10. What is the irony at the end of Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones had run away from imprisonment in America, and then he died of his freedom in the West Indies.
(b) Jones had always claimed to be immortal, but the natives threatened his life and he showed them that he was afraid of death.
(c) Jones swore that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but he died of self-inflicted injuries and exhaustion.
(d) Jones manipulated the natives by saying that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but they killed him with a silver bullet after all.

11. Where does the fourth forest scene begin?
(a) A clearing in the forest.
(b) A crossroads in the plain.
(c) In front of the palace.
(d) In a cave.

12. Who enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Smithers.
(d) The natives.

13. What wrongdoing does Emperor Jones admit to in the fourth forest scene?
(a) Running out on his wife and kids.
(b) Lying to the natives about his powers.
(c) Cheating at cards and craps.
(d) Killing Jeff and the prison guard.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Emperor Jones sees a scene in Act 1 Scene 5. Where does one of the figures in his vision gesture for him to stand?

2. What is the significance of the silver bullet?

3. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of the fifth forest scene?

4. How do the figures move in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?

5. How is the apparition in the fourth forest scene different from the previous apparitions?

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