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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the natives 'do right by' Emperor Jones?
(a) They kill him in style.
(b) They let him live after he pleaded for forgiveness.
(c) They reduced his imperial attitude to superstition and fear.
(d) They showed the same cruelty to him that he had shown them.

2. What does Emperor Jones use to dispel his final vision?
(a) His jacket.
(b) His silver bullet.
(c) A shovel.
(d) His shoes.

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

4. Who does Emperor Jones stand in for in the fourth forest scene?
(a) All slave buyers.
(b) All black American men.
(c) All slaves.
(d) All black men.

5. What is the irony at the end of Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones had run away from imprisonment in America, and then he died of his freedom in the West Indies.
(b) Jones had always claimed to be immortal, but the natives threatened his life and he showed them that he was afraid of death.
(c) Jones manipulated the natives by saying that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but they killed him with a silver bullet after all.
(d) Jones swore that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but he died of self-inflicted injuries and exhaustion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part does Emperor Jones play in the vision he sees in the fourth forest scene?

2. What kind of drama is Emperor Jones?

3. What kind of help does Emperor Jones ask for in the fourth forest scene?

4. What atmosphere does the drumming create during the fourth forest scene?

5. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of the sixth forest scene?

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