Julius Caesar Test Study Guide
Test Date: Tuesday, December 7
50 Multiple Choice Questions
Literary Terms and Rhetoric Terms:
Aside
Metaphor
Soliloquy
Simile
Pun
Foreshadowing
Important Characters:
Caesar
Brutus
Calpurnia
Portia
Decius
Artemidorus
Irony
Rhetoric
Ethos
Logos
Pathos
Cassius
Casca
Octavius
Antony
Soothsayer
Act 1:
What is the setting of Act 1 (scene 1, 2, and 3)?
What is the Feast of Lupercal?
What pun is present in Act 1?
How is foreshadowing used in Act 1?
What disease does Caesar have?
What major event happens during the celebration of Caesar’s return?
Why does Cassius want Caesar dead?
Why does Brutus want Caesar dead?
What concern does Caesar express about Cassius?
Act 2:
What is the setting of Act 2 (scene 1 and 2)
What internal conflict is Brutus struggling with in scene 1?
What concern does Brutus have if Caesar becomes king?
What metaphor does Brutus use in his soliloquy in scene 1?
What simile does Brutus use in his soliloquy in scene 1?
What 3 important decisions does Brutus make in regards to the conspiracy? Why does he make those decisions?
What is ironic about Brutus’ opinions of Antony?
What argument do Calpurnia and Caesar have in scene 2?
What eventually resolves this between Calpurnia and Caesar?
Act 3:
What is ironic about Caesar calling himself “constant like the North Star”?
What reasons for the assassination of Caesar does Brutus present to the people of Rome?
What evidence does Antony provide to show that Caesar was not ambitious?
How are ethos, logos, and pathos used in the various funeral speeches?
What is the ultimate response by the citizens to Antony’s speech?
What does Antony reveal Caesar has left in his will for the citizens of Rome?
Act 4 and 5
What do Antony and Octavius do in Act 4 and 5?
Who does Brutus learned died in Act 4?
What is the ultimate fate of Brutus and Cassius?
How does Antony refer to Brutus at the end of the play?
Malcolm X (poem), MLK Jr (eulogy), and JFK (article) Pieces
What was the overall tone of the three pieces (the poem, the eulogy, and the article)?
What was the purpose of Ethridge Knight writing the poem “For Macolm, a Year After”?
How does Robert F. Kennedy use pathos in his speech after MLK’s death?
What similarities does RFK’s speech have with Antony’s speech?
What differences does RFK’s speech have with Antony’s speech?
In terms of rhetoric, what sets the article about JFK’s death apart from the poem and the eulogy?
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Important Quotes: Be able to identify who said the quote and what it means in the play.
-“Cowards die many times before their deaths, / The valiant never taste of death but once”
- “Beware the Ides of March”
-“Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to min honor, that you may believe”
-“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”
- “Et tu, Brute”
-“What mean you Caesar? Think you walk forth? / You shall not stir out of your house today”
-“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”
- “Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder
turns his back”
-“Think you I am not stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded? / Tell me your counsels. / I will not
disclose ‘em”
-“O masters, if I were disposed to stir / Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, / I should do Brutus wrong, and
Cassisus wrong - / Who you all know are honorable men.”
-“. . . this is my answer: not that I loved / Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
-“I am ashamed I did yield to them. / Give me my robe, for I will go.”
- “And for Mark Antony, think not of him; / For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm / When Caesar’s head is off”