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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which term describes how Emperor Jones speaks after he leaves the palace?
(a) Soliloquy.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Phillipic.
(d) Monologue.

2. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?
(a) What the tom-tom means.
(b) Where Jones' food is.
(c) When Jones will die.
(d) Where the natives are gathering.

3. Which character is the first to appear in the second scene in the forest?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Emperor Jones.
(c) Smithers.
(d) The witch doctor.

4. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?
(a) His time as a long-distance runner.
(b) An earlier native uprising.
(c) Running away from his parents' house.
(d) His flight in America.

5. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?
(a) They do not say anything.
(b) They tell him to leave.
(c) They tell him where to go.
(d) They predict his future.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jeff's appearance affect Jones' flight?

2. What do the dark figures represent who Emperor Jones sees in the woods?

3. Where did Emperor Jones learn the ways of the white man?

4. What is Jeff doing when Emperor Jones sees him?

5. Who is the first character to appear on stage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jeff's appearance in the second forest scene.

2. Contrast the vision Emperor Jones has in the fourth forest scene with the first vision he has.

3. What is the cue for the formless fears to appear?

4. How have the natives prepared to kill Emperor Jones?

5. What happens at the beginning of the second forest scene to ease Emperor Jones' fears?

6. Where is the native woman going in the first scene?

7. Some of Emperor Jones' apparitions are racial memories. What does this conclusion say about the state or the future of the black race?

8. How does Emperor Jones' experience in the second scene echo his experience in America?

9. What does the figure in the sixth forest scene's apparition communicate to Emperor Jones?

10. List two interpretations of Jones' vision in the fourth forest scene.

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