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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. Who gestures to Emperor Jones to join the figures in the apparition?
(a) The guard.
(b) Smithers.
(c) One of the prisoners.
(d) The witch doctor.

2. What happens to Emperor Jones when he sees the apparition in the third forest scene?
(a) His hands shake.
(b) His eyes bulge.
(c) He faints.
(d) He stammers.

3. How do the figures that Emperor Jones sees in the forest move?
(a) They seethe and boil like an ocean.
(b) They try to stand but fall over.
(c) They run on long legs.
(d) They walk on long tentacles.

4. What is the basis for Smithers' authority in the palace?
(a) He is the emperor.
(b) He is a medicine man.
(c) He is a white man.
(d) He is the emperor's right hand man.

5. How are the forest scenes different from the opening scene in the palace?
(a) They are less realistic.
(b) They are more hyperbole.
(c) They lack the first scene's dark humor.
(d) They are more satirical.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?

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

4. What do the dark figures who Emperor Jones sees in the forest know?

5. Emperor Jones tell the natives that only one person can kill him--who is that?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Smithers' relationship to Emperor Jones?

2. Describe the setting where the final scene opens.

3. How does the tom-tom drumming change during the course of the fourth forest scene?

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

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

7. What irony does Smithers point out in the final scene?

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

9. Describe Emperor Jones' state of mind when the fourth forest scene opens.

10. What are two explanations for the identity of the chain gang?

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