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Act I
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the Julius Caesar test.
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Where does the first scene take place?
What are Flavius and Marullus doing?
According to a laborer, why have the people left their shops and assembled?
Who was Pompey?
Who was Lupercal, and when did the Feast of Lupercal occur?
What character establishes the notion that Caesar is ambitious, and that he flies too high
and is a danger to free men?
7. In scene two, who, in particular, is instructed to stand in Antony's way and why?
8. What warning does the fortuneteller give to Caesar?
9. What is Caesar’s response to the fortuneteller’s warning?
10. What do Cassius and Brutus discuss after Caesar and his followers leave?
11. Cassius openly works on contrasting Brutus’s humility to Caesar’s presumptuousness and
arrogance. Why?
12. What fear does Brutus blurt out when shouts are heard and a trumpet sounds?
13. When Caesar returns from the race, which character’s countenance seems to disturb him?
14. How does Caesar contrast Cassius with Antony?
15. Why does Antony have to speak to Caesar from his right side?
16. What does Casca tell him (Brutus) has happened?
17. What other physical impairment does Caesar have?
18. According to Casca, did the Roman people seem to want Caesar to be king?
19. What dramatic action had Caesar taken in front of the people before his fainting?
20. How did Casca react to the events at the Lupercal Festival?
21. What has happened to Marullus and Flavius and why?
22. Cassius’s major plan involves Brutus. What is it?
23. What secretive means does Cassius intend to use to persuade Brutus he is more noble
than Caesar?
24. What is Caesar to do tomorrow?
25. According to Casca, what do the senators plan to do tomorrow?
26. What pledge does Casca give to Cassius?
27. Who is Cinna?
28. According to Cinna, acquiring the cooperation of who would be more beneficial?
29. Cinna is to deliver the forged letters to what three places?
Act One Quotations
Identify who is speaking, to whom and, in your own words, what the quote means.
1. "If we can pluck these growing feathers out of Caesar’s wing,
we can force him to fly lower."
2. "Beware the Ides of March."
3. "O, he has a high place in the hearts of the Roman people,
what would appear offensive if we did it,
his approval, like precious alchemy,
will transform it to something virtuous and worthy."
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Act II
1. About what has Brutus been thinking that has prevented him from sleeping?
2. Brutus reads the letter that he receives. What is its purpose?
3. Name the person who tossed the forged letters to Brutus.
4. What day is it now?
5. What relation is Cassius to Brutus?
6. Why does Brutus put a stop to Cassius’s idea to also kill Antony?
7. Brutus tells the conspirators to put on happy faces when they go to the Capitol. Why?
8. What reason does he give to Portia as causing his changed behavior?
9. Does he confide in Portia as to the real reason for his disturbed behavior?
10. Who was Cato?
11. In scene two, who else has been experiencing trouble sleeping?
12. What is Calpurnia’s feelings regarding the day at hand?
13. Caesar begins to reconsider going to the Capitol. What excuse does he consider offering?
14. What dream has been dreamt by Calpurnia?
15. How did Decius reinterpret the meaning of Calpurnia’s dream from its original meaning?
16. Scene 3 opens with Artemidorus reading a letter. What is its contents?
Act Two Quotations
1. "in the early stages of ambition that humility is a ladder,
on which the climber mounts with his face turned upward.
Once he gets to the top rung, however,
He turns his back to the ladder."
2. Since Antony is only a limb of Caesar."
3. "Cowards die many times before their deaths; valiant men only taste death but once.”
4. "We shall be called purgers
and not murderers.
As for Mark Antony, don’t think about him,
Because he can accomplish no more than Caesar’s arm
After Caesar’s head has been cut off."
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Act III
1. What group accompanied Caesar to the Capitol?
2. Who whispers "good luck" to Cassius?
3. How does Cassius interpret it?
4. Who calms Cassius?
5. Who has the task of getting Antony out of the way?
6. Who decided which conspirator would stab Caesar first?
7. Which character did stab Caesar first?
8. What words does Caesar utter as he realizes Brutus is a conspirator, also?
9. According to Brutus, who should bear the consequences of their actions?
10. Where does Caesar die?
11. Whose servant arrives? Why?
12. What request does Antony make at Caesar’s funeral?
13. What is Brutus’s reply?
14. Alone with the body, Antony delivers a soliloquy. Its meaning is what?
15. What relationship was Octavius to Caesar?
16. Who is made to appear most dangerous to Brutus and Cassius’s plan?
17. In scene 2, why does Brutus divide the crowd?
18. According to Brutus, what flaw of Caesar’s caused him to kill him?
19. How did the crowd receive Brutus’s words?
20. What does Brutus do while Antony addresses the crowd?
21. What is Antony’s purpose in his speech?
22. The crowd asks Antony to do what?
23. Around Caesar’s body, how does Antony incite the crowd?
Act Three Quotations
1. "I am as unchanging as the North Star,
Whose completely fixed and immovable nature
Is unmatched by any other star in the heavens."
2. "Et tu Brute?"
3. Answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
4. "Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.”
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Act IV
1. Where does scene one take place?
2. Name the characters having a meeting.
3. What are they trying to decide?
4. What relationship is Publius to Mark Antony?
5. With what other characters, according to Antony, are armies being drawn together?
6. How does Octavius respond to Antony’s wishes?
7. Where does scene two take place?
8. What is the purpose of Cassius baring his breast to Brutus?
9. Do the two reconcile?
10. What startling news does Brutus give to Cassius?
11. How did this event occur?
12. What news do Titinius and Messala bring?
13. What are the positions of the people who have been killed?
14. With what suggestion of Brutus’s does Cassius disagree?
15. Why does Cassius disagree?
16. What counter argument does Brutus put forth?
17. Which character gives in to the other?
18. What appears to Brutus?
19. What does it tell Brutus?
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Act Four Quotations
1. "Strike as you did at Caesar, because I know,
when you hated him worst, you loved him better
than you ever loved Cassius."
2."To tell you that you shall see me at Philippi."
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Act V
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Where does scene one take place?
Why does Octavius tell Antony he feels the conspirators are advancing?
What does the messenger announce?
About what strategic point do Antony and Octavius disagree?
What has Brutus chosen to do that reveals his lack of military judgment and foreshadows
his defeat?
6. On their way to Sardis, what unusual occurrence took place around Cassius?
7. According to Cassius in scene 3, what error has Brutus made?
8. According to Cassius, although this is the day of his birth, what also will it be?
9. Pindarus misinterprets Titinius’s meeting with the soldiers down below. What wrong fact
does he relate to Cassius?
10. Because of Pindarus’s error, what does Cassius decide to do?
11. How does he accomplish it?
12. Who else was killed with Cassius’s sword?
13. Who discovered the body of Cassius?
14. What does Titinius do to himself?
15. Who does Brutus say is responsible for all that has happened?
16. What tragedy occurs early in scene four?
17. What information does Brutus reveal to Volumnius?
18. How does Brutus take his life?
19. According to Antony, Brutus was the most noble Roman of them all, because what he did
to Caesar, he did for the common good of the people, but the others betrayed Caesar
because of what?
20. According to Antony, what sentence might sum up the life of Brutus?
21. What respect does Octavius intend to show the body of Brutus?
Act Five Quotations
1. This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators, except Brutus,
Did what they did out of jealousy and spite against great Caesar.”