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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. Where have all the natives gone when the play is just beginning?
(a) To the hills.
(b) To the beach.
(c) To the USA.
(d) To the palace.

2. How does the tom-tom drumming change at the end of the second forest scene?
(a) It gets angrier.
(b) It gets further away.
(c) It fades to quiet.
(d) It gets faster and closer.

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

4. What does Emperor Jones do when he is invited, with a gesture, to join the figures he sees in the third forest scene?
(a) He shoots at the figures.
(b) He leads the other prisoners in a revolt.
(c) He picks up an imaginary shovel.
(d) He takes off his clothes.

5. Where does the third forest scene begin?
(a) At a burial ground.
(b) At a well.
(c) At a wide, flat road.
(d) At the palace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away was Emperor Jones' would-be assassin when the gun misfired?

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

3. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?

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

5. What is the tone of the scene at the edge of the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Emperor Jones' state of mind in the second scene.

2. Describe the apparition Emperor Jones sees in the fourth forest scene.

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

4. Explain how Emperor Jones attained his authority over the natives.

5. What progress, if any, has Emperor Jones made in the fifth forest scene?

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

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

8. What gives Emperor Jones his confidence when he learns that the natives are rising against him?

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

10. What is it that gives Emperor Jones the courage to act in the fourth forest scene?

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