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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1 | Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cleopatra imagine Antony calls her at the end of the first act?
(a) "My gem of Egypt."
(b) "My serpent of 'old Nile'."
(c) "The deadly basilisk."
(d) "A blot on my conscience."

2. What game do Cleopatra and Mardian almost play to pass the time while she waits to hear of Antony?
(a) Billiards.
(b) A word game.
(c) A game of cards.
(d) Bowling.

3. To whom is it proposed that Antony be married?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Octavia.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Eros.

4. Where does Caesar say that Pompey resides in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Misenum.
(b) Florence.
(c) Messina.
(d) Sicily.

5. Pompey relates to Mark Antony the coming of whom to Sicily?
(a) Mark Antony's mother.
(b) Fulvia.
(c) Mark Antony's father.
(d) Lucius.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days does Lepidus say Mecaenas and Agrippa will gain on him?

2. To where does Antony decide he must go in the beginning of the play?

3. How does Cleopatra intend to act on the occasion that Antony is sad in Act 1, Scene 3?

4. What is the name of Mark Antony's wife?

5. What, in the play's beginning, is the "tawny front" upon which Antony has turned his view?

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