Name ______________________________________________Period ___________ Date____________
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Scene Summaries (45 blanks, 22 ½ possible)
Act II Scene i
Location:1) _____________________________________________________________________
It is before dawn on the day of March 15th. Brutus is in his orchard. He can’t sleep because he is
thinking over his decision to kill Caesar. He delivers a 2)____________________ in which he determines
his course of action. He decides to 3)__________________. A servant of Brutus finds a letter in the
window. Brutus reads that the 4)________________praise and honor him and want him to take
5)_________________for
Rome. Cassius arrives with the group of 6)____________________. They talk
of their plan. Cassius wants the men to swear an 7)____________. Brutus says, “No! Our word is our
bond.” Oaths will 8)_________________the virtue of their enterprise. Cassius wants to kill
9)________________________
as well as Caesar, but Brutus says they must only kill Caesar. Brutus
says, “Let us be 10)________________not 11)_________________.” Once the course of action is decided,
Cassius and his group leave to meet the rest of the conspirators and go get Caesar. Brutus’s wife,
12)_______________,
is worried about his strange behavior lately. She has now seen 13)_________ men
come and go and asks Brutus to tell her what has been going on. She promises she will not
14)_____________the
15)_______________
secret. To show her loyalty, and that she can bear the secret, she
herself on the 16)____________. Seeing this, Brutus 17)____________________ to
tell her.
Act II Scene ii
Location: 18)_____________________________________________________________________
Caesar is at home and is planning on going to the 19)____________________. Caesar says that he heard
Calphurnia cry in her sleep, “20)_________________________________!” He has the priests
21)___________________
an animal and read the entrails to tell what will happen that day. His wife,
Calphurnia, enters and describes all the other signs and bad omens and begs Caesar to
22)__________________.
24)______________
He says “23)______________die many times before their deaths; The
never taste of death but 25)____________.” A servant returns and reports that the
sacrificed animal has no 26)___________. Caesar interprets this to mean that he would be a
27)______________
if he stays home. Calphurnia says to send 28)_____________________ to say that
Caesar is sick. Calphurnia begs Caesar on her knees to stay at home.
Finally, Caesar agrees to stay
home. Decius Brutus, one of the 29)____________________, arrives to take Caesar to the Capitol.
Caesar explains he will not go because of Calphurnia’s 30)________________. In her dream, Caesar’s
statue spouted 31)____________ and many happy Romans 32)__________________________. Caesar
says he will stay 33)______________. Decius Brutus offers another interpretation of the dream. He says
that the dream means that Caesar will be able to offer Rome 34)____________________ blood. Decius
also tells Caesar that the Senate intends to offer him the 35)_______________ that day. If Caesar does not
come, he would be considered too 36)______________. Caesar decides to go to the Senate. He is
accompanied by Mark Antony and the other conspirators.
Act II Scene iii
Location: 37)_____________________________________________________________________
Artemidorus has written a 38)_____________ which warns Caesar of the conspiracy. He names each of
the 39)___________________. He stands near the street to the Capitol hoping to give it to Caesar as he
passes.
Act II Scene iv
Location: 40)_____________________________________________________________________
Portia is greatly disturbed by what Brutus has revealed to her. She follows him to the street and sends
41)____________________
to go and see what is happening. Portia says she is having a hard time
keeping this secret. She meets the 42)____________________ who reveals that it is 43)______________
o’clock. He also tells her that he is planning to again 44)________ Caesar of 45)____________________.