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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. What does Smithers tell Emperor Jones to look out for when Jones is leaving the palace?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Armed natives.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Lem.

2. Which literary style describes the scenes in which Emperor Jones sees apparitions?
(a) Realism.
(b) Magic realism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Allegory.

3. What atmosphere does the tom-tom drumming create?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Savage anger.
(c) Lingering regret.
(d) Impending doom.

4. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when the leader of that group turns his back to Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones runs into the forest.
(b) Jones acts as if to hit him with a shovel.
(c) Jones shoots him with the silver bullet.
(d) Jones acts as if to slit his throat.

5. What happens when Emperor Jones rings for the servants?
(a) No one comes.
(b) They begin to drum in the forest.
(c) They all come running.
(d) They come and shoot him.

Short Answer Questions

1. The black figures that Emperor Jones sees in the first forest scene are amused by what?

2. What appears to Emperor Jones in the first scene in the forest?

3. What literary term describes Emperor Jones' language when he shoots at the apparition?

4. How does Emperor Jones say he killed Jeff?

5. What makes Emperor Jones laugh at the beginning of the second forest scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the irony in the natives' method for killing Emperor Jones.

2. How well prepared is Emperor Jones for the experience of fleeing the palace?

3. Which characters talk about Jones in the final scene? What do they say?

4. How does Emperor Jones' appearance change in the third forest scene?

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

6. What effect do the formless fears have on Emperor Jones?

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

8. How does the sound of the tom-tom change over the course of the second forest scene?

9. Describe the apparition Emperor Jones sees in the sixth forest scene.

10. Describe the setting where Act 1, Scene 4 begins.

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