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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing Emperor Jones asks Smithers?
(a) Where everyone is.
(b) Why white men are always in charge.
(c) Who the old woman's children are.
(d) What did he do wrong.

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

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

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

5. What literary term describes Emperor Jones' language when he shoots at the apparition?
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Declaration.
(c) Exclamation.
(d) Interrogation.

6. What happens when Emperor Jones first fires his gun in the forest?
(a) The tom-tom gets louder and closer.
(b) The tom-tom stops.
(c) He kills one of the native leaders.
(d) He kills a crocodile.

7. What does Emperor Jones tell himself at the beginning of the third forest scene?
(a) That he is going to die.
(b) That he will go back and kill Jeff.
(c) That he is dreaming.
(d) That he has not seen any ghosts.

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

9. Where is the play set?
(a) Florida Keys.
(b) Hispaniola.
(c) West Indies.
(d) New Orleans.

10. What does Jeff say when Emperor Jones speaks to him?
(a) He does not respond.
(b) He predicts Jones' death.
(c) He vows revenge.
(d) He accuses Jones of killing him.

11. What provision has Emperor Jones made in case of uprising?
(a) He buried food in the forest.
(b) He trained an elite security force.
(c) He put Smithers in charge of security.
(d) He stockpiled weapons in the palace.

12. How does Emperor Jones' flight recall his time in America?
(a) He was always traveling as a salesman.
(b) He did not have the resources he needed then, either.
(c) He was always on the run from his wife and family.
(d) He lived in the forest there as well.

13. How does the second forest scene open?
(a) The sun rises.
(b) The moon sets.
(c) The sun sets.
(d) The moon rises.

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

15. Which literary device describes the increasing tempo of the tom-tom drumming?
(a) Style.
(b) Setting.
(c) Tone.
(d) Symbolism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Smithers say that Emperor Jones came into his position?

2. How are the forest scenes different from the opening scene in the palace?

3. How do Emperor Jones and Smithers keep each other in their respective roles?

4. Where does Emperor Jones go at the end of this first scene outside the palace?

5. How well has Emperor Jones prepared for his flight from the palace?

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