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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of the silver bullet?
(a) Superstition required a silver bullet to kill the crocodile god Emperor Jones represented.
(b) Emperor Jones had claimed that it was the only thing that could kill him.
(c) The natives believe that emperors could only be killed by silver bullets.
(d) Slaves had used silver bullets to kill slave owners in an earlier revolt.

2. What does the other figure in the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones intend to do?
(a) Return Emperor Jones to a village in Africa.
(b) Make a sacrifice to a crocodile.
(c) Take Emperor Jones home and take care of him.
(d) Slit Emperor Jones' throat with a razor.

3. Whose help does Emperor Jones ask for in his final vision?
(a) The Lord.
(b) Lem.
(c) The witch doctor.
(d) Smithers.

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

5. Where does the fourth forest scene begin?
(a) In front of the palace.
(b) A crossroads in the plain.
(c) In a cave.
(d) A clearing in the forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term describes the figure of the crocodile in Emperor Jones' final vision?

2. What kind of drama is Emperor Jones?

3. What has changed about Emperor Jones' appearance as the fifth forest scene begins?

4. Whose experience is Emperor Jones envisioning in the fifth forest scene?

5. Which musical term describes the change in the sound of the tom-tom at the end of the fourth forest scene?

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