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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which literary device is employed in this first forest scene?
(a) Literal meaning.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Elegy.
(d) Personification.

3. How does Emperor Jones feel when he is orienting himself in the forest?
(a) Warlike.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Panicked.

4. What does Emperor Jones decide to do after he rings for the servants?
(a) Burn the palace down.
(b) Fortify the palace.
(c) Send the army into the hills for the natives.
(d) Head for the hills.

5. How far away was Emperor Jones' would-be assassin when the gun misfired?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) Point blank.
(d) 10 feet.

6. What is the setting where the play begins?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In the interior of a palace.
(c) In a Pullman car.
(d) In an American slave auction.

7. How much light is there in the scene where Emperor Jones sees the formless black figures?
(a) The faint light of dawn lights the stage.
(b) The scene is lit fully by the daytime sun.
(c) Very little--the moon has not yet risen.
(d) A full moon lights the stage.

8. Who is the first character to appear on stage?
(a) Emperor Jones.
(b) Lem.
(c) An old woman.
(d) Smithers.

9. How does Emperor Jones feel after he has seen the black figures?
(a) He has collected his thoughts and he has a plan.
(b) He is confident and laughing about his luck.
(c) He is terrified and runs blindly into the forest.
(d) He steels himself against his fears.

10. Which character is the first to appear in the second scene in the forest?
(a) The witch doctor.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Smithers.
(d) Emperor Jones.

11. How long does Jones think he has been walking at the beginning of the second forest scene?
(a) Hours.
(b) Half a day.
(c) All night.
(d) Years.

12. What do the natives mistakenly think about Emperor Jones?
(a) He has mysterious powers.
(b) He is a runaway felon.
(c) He is a murderer.
(d) He is a god.

13. Which term describes how Emperor Jones speaks after he leaves the palace?
(a) Monologue.
(b) Phillipic.
(c) Soliloquy.
(d) Dialogue.

14. What does Jones do when he appears at the beginning of the third forest scene?
(a) He stops to catch his breath.
(b) He encounters the witch doctor.
(c) He runs about wildly.
(d) He sees Jeff's apparition.

15. 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 has had hallucinations in the past.
(d) That he remembers spending time on a chain gang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Smithers talk to the old woman about in the first scene?

2. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?

3. When does Emperor Jones notice the tom-tom?

4. What does Jeff say when Emperor Jones speaks to him?

5. What provision has Emperor Jones made in case of uprising?

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