English 9: Julius Caesar Test Review
Toronto Prep School
Mrs. Troncone
Breakdown:
Part 1: Multiple Choice
Part 2: Short Answer
/20K
/10A
/15T
/10C
Part 3: Quotation Analysis
Communication:
Part 2: Short Answer
Answer the following questions using full answers. Each answer should be roughly 2-4 sentences in length.
1.
How does Cassius trick Brutus into joining the conspirators?
2.
What is the significance of Caesar's dying words, "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!"?
3.
Who turns the people of Rome against Brutus? How does he do this?
4.
What is the significance of Mark Anthony’s speech opening with “Friends”. Compare his speech to Brutus’.
5.
Cassius asks Brutus what he plans to do if they should lose the battle. What is Brutus's response?
6.
How does Cassius die?
7.
How does Brutus die? What were his last words? Why are they significant?
8.
Explain the significance of Antony's final speech, beginning with the line, "This was the noblest Roman of them all".
9.
Why doesn’t Julius Caesar listen to the Soothsayer’s warnings? Why doesn’t Julius
Caesar read the letter from Artemidorus?
10.
Why was Mark Anthony absent during the assassination of Julius Caesar? Where was he?
Who got him out of the room?
11.
What is significant about Mark Anthony shaking all the conspirators hands?
12.
What does Caesar mean by the following statement? “I rather tell thee what is to be feared/Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.” What does this statement show about
Caesar's nature?
13.
What are some of Julius Caesar’s personal weaknesses?
14.
Why did Brutus agree to assassinate Julius Caesar? What were his reasons?
15.
How does Octavius plan to honour Brutus, at the end of the play?

Part 3: Quotation Analysis
For each quotation, you must explain its context (what is happening in the play when these lines are spoken) and its significance (why are these lines particularly important to the plot, character development, and themes). Three of the following quotes will be on your test. Each response will be marked out of 5.
I was born free as Caesar, so were you;
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter’s cold as well as he.
Act 1 Scene 2, lines 97- 99
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that ‘Caesar’?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with ‘em,
‘Brutus’ will start a spirit as soon as ‘Caesar’
Act 1 Scene 2, lines 135- 147
Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.
Act 1 Scene 2, lines 172- 174
And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,
Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends,
Let’s kill him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,
Stir up their servants to an act of rage.
Act 2, Scene 1: Lines 171- 176
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true- fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament
Act 3 Scene 1: Lines 60 -63
Et tu, Brute?- Then fall, Caesar!

Act 3, Scene 1: Line 77
Let each man render me his bloody hand.
First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;
Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;
Now, Decius Cassius, yours; now yours, Metellus;
Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;
Through last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius
Act 3, Scene 1: Lines 184- 189
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones:
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
Act 3, Scene 2, Lines: 73- 77
This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, ‘This was a man!’
Act 5, Scene 5: Lines 68- 75