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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part does Emperor Jones play in the vision he sees in the fourth forest scene?
(a) He is leading a slave revolt.
(b) He is a slave being auctioned.
(c) He is being punished.
(d) He is on trial.

2. What is the irony of the silver bullet?
(a) It liberates the natives, but kills Emperor Jones.
(b) It ends the natives' oppression, but now they are murderers.
(c) It started as money and ended the natives' poverty.
(d) It cost the natives money to make it, but it saves them money as well.

3. Someone enters the sixth forest scene with Emperor Jones. What does that figure represent to Emperor Jones?
(a) The spirit of the earth.
(b) Divine forgiveness.
(c) The forces of evil.
(d) The spirit of justice.

4. What state is Emperor Jones in when the natives bring him back in the final scene?
(a) He is delirious.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He is terrified.
(d) He is repentant.

5. What is the irony at the end of Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones swore that he could only be killed by a silver bullet, but he died of self-inflicted injuries and exhaustion.
(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 had run away from imprisonment in America, and then he died of his freedom in the West Indies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the tone of the fifth forest scene change?

2. What wrongdoing does Emperor Jones admit to in the fourth forest scene?

3. Which literary term best approximates the sound Emperor Jones makes in the fifth forest scene?

4. What does the setting in the fifth forest scene represent?

5. How are the figures arranged in Emperor Jones' vision in the fifth forest scene?

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