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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the throne?
(a) Dark green with a green cushion.
(b) Ivory with an animal fur cushion.
(c) Bright red with an orange cushion.
(d) Jet black with a woven mat cushion.

2. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?
(a) When the natives are going to kill Emperor Jones.
(b) Where the other whites have gone.
(c) Where Emperor Jones hid his food.
(d) Where she is going.

3. What does Emperor Jones' flight recall to him?
(a) An earlier native uprising.
(b) His flight in America.
(c) Running away from his parents' house.
(d) His time as a long-distance runner.

4. Where have all the natives gone when the play is just beginning?
(a) To the hills.
(b) To the palace.
(c) To the USA.
(d) To the beach.

5. What appears to Emperor Jones in the first scene in the forest?
(a) Native soldiers.
(b) Black formless fears.
(c) The witch doctor.
(d) His memory of a slave auction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emperor Jones feel when he is orienting himself in the forest?

2. Where did Emperor Jones learn the ways of the white man?

3. Which term describes how Emperor Jones speaks after he leaves the palace?

4. Why was Emperor Jones foolish to have fired his gun in the forest?

5. Emperor Jones tell the natives that only one person can kill him--who is that?

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