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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emperor Jones sees a group of figures in Act 1, Scene 4. What happens when the leader of that group turns his back to Emperor Jones?
(a) Jones shoots him with the silver bullet.
(b) Jones acts as if to hit him with a shovel.
(c) Jones runs into the forest.
(d) Jones acts as if to slit his throat.

2. What happens to the tom-tom drumming when Emperor Jones shoots at the apparition in the third forest scene?
(a) It gets quieter and less threatening.
(b) It gets closer.
(c) It changes rhythm again.
(d) The drummer himself appears onstage.

3. What does this third apparition tell us about Jones' past?
(a) That he has had hallucinations in the past.
(b) That he was once a prison guard.
(c) That he remembers spending time on a chain gang.
(d) That he was wrongly imprisoned.

4. Where does Emperor Jones look for the food he buried?
(a) In a cave.
(b) Under a white rock.
(c) In a clearing.
(d) In the hollow of a tree.

5. What does Emperor Jones hear in the forest?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) Laughing ghosts.
(c) A tom-tom drum.
(d) Whispering natives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do we learn from the interaction between what Emperor Jones says and what the figures say in the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fifth forest scene?

3. How does Emperor Jones free himself from the vision he sees in the fifth forest scene?

4. What does Emperor Jones lose in the forest?

5. Is Emperor Jones moving any closer to freedom in the fifth forest scene?

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