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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emperor Jones free himself from the vision he sees in the fifth forest scene?
(a) He shoots the slave driver.
(b) He overpowers the others with his wailing.
(c) He kills the prison guard.
(d) He shoots the auctioneer.

2. What is the state of Emperor Jones' clothing as the fourth forest scene begins?
(a) Primitive and proud.
(b) Proud and imperial.
(c) Dirty and tattered.
(d) Natty and neat.

3. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of the sixth forest scene?
(a) Back to the crossroads.
(b) He lies still, with his face to the ground.
(c) Further into the forest.
(d) Back to the palace.

4. How have the natives triumphed by the end of the play?
(a) They have killed a tyrant.
(b) They have overcome their superstitious beliefs.
(c) They have escaped from voodoo by killing the witch doctor.
(d) They have mastered the art of stone carving.

5. Someone enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones. What does that figure represent to Emperor Jones?
(a) The forces of evil.
(b) Divine forgiveness.
(c) The spirit of the earth.
(d) The spirit of justice.

6. Which literary term describes the apparition in the fourth forest scene?
(a) Ancestral memory.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Flashback.

7. What does Emperor Jones do when he comes on stage in the fourth forest scene?
(a) Sit on a stump and put his head in his hands.
(b) Shoot the rebellious natives.
(c) Stalk around the stage, making threats.
(d) Talk about killing himself.

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

9. What are the figures saying in Emperor Jones' vision in the fifth forest scene?
(a) They are moaning along with him.
(b) They are demanding an end to their suffering.
(c) They are asking him to free them.
(d) They are telling him to run until he is free.

10. What kind of help does Emperor Jones ask for in the fourth forest scene?
(a) Alliance with powerful political allies.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Food.
(d) More bullets.

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

12. What kind of drama is Emperor Jones?
(a) Sentimental drama.
(b) Potboiler.
(c) Morality play.
(d) Slave narrative.

13. 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 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.
(c) Jones had always claimed to be immortal, but the natives threatened his life and he showed them that he was afraid of death.
(d) Jones swore that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but he died of self-inflicted injuries and exhaustion.

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

15. How does Emperor Jones dispel his final vision?
(a) He strangles the person who would harm him.
(b) He prays for forgiveness.
(c) He blinks his eyes and shakes his head and the vision disappears.
(d) He shoots the crocodile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which literary term describes the interaction between Emperor Jones' voice and the voices of the figures in his vision in the fifth forest scene?

2. What does Emperor Jones say at the beginning of the fifth forest scene?

3. Where does Lem say he got his silver bullet?

4. What is the irony of the silver bullet?

5. What does Emperor Jones see in the fifth forest scene?

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