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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Jeff doing when Emperor Jones sees him?
(a) Shooting a prison guard.
(b) Threatening to shoot Jones.
(c) Shooting craps.
(d) Running through the forest.

3. What does Emperor Jones do after he shoots at the apparition in the third forest scene?
(a) He celebrates his freedom.
(b) He heads back to the palace.
(c) He flees into the forest.
(d) He looks around for food.

4. Which rhetorical term describes Emperor Jones' request for assistance?
(a) Peroration.
(b) Supplication.
(c) Dissimilation.
(d) Declamation.

5. Emperor Jones sees figures in the forest. What do they seem to know?
(a) Where the natives are gathering.
(b) When Jones will die.
(c) Where Jones' food is.
(d) What the tom-tom means.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emperor Jones say he killed Jeff?

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

3. What does the vision Emperor Jones sees in the fourth forest scene tell us about the development of the play?

4. Which literary term defines Jeff's apparition?

5. What happens to Emperor Jones when he sees the apparition in the third forest scene?

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