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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caesar say the world shall bear freely if the battle of Alexandria goes well?
(a) The corpse of Antony.
(b) The dove.
(c) Its Caesar.
(d) The olive.

2. How many soldiers are present in Act 4, Scene 9?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

3. To where does the speaker in Act 4, Scene 11, say the speaker and company must go?
(a) To the vales.
(b) To Alexandria.
(c) To the hills.
(d) To the galleys.

4. What noise disturbs the soldiers in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) Moans.
(b) Music.
(c) A solitary voice singing.
(d) Screams.

5. Where does Cleopatra go in Act 4, Scene 13?
(a) Caesar's camp.
(b) Her ship.
(c) Sicily.
(d) The monument.

6. Whom does Caesar put in the van of his attack against Antony at Alexandria?
(a) Pompey's fighters.
(b) Antony's deserters.
(c) Caesar's best fighters.
(d) Enobarbus.

7. Whom is it reported by Enobarbus that Caesar has hanged without good reason?
(a) Herod.
(b) Canidius.
(c) Agrippa.
(d) Alexas.

8. Whom does Cleopatra send to Antony with false report of her death?
(a) Mardian.
(b) Eros.
(c) Iras.
(d) Charmian.

9. What does Antony send after his most recent deserter in Act 4, Scene 5?
(a) The deserter's sword.
(b) The deserter's treasure.
(c) The deserter's wife's head.
(d) The deserter's servants.

10. What does Enobarbus throw against the "flint and hardness" of his fault, figuratively speaking?
(a) His heart.
(b) His soul.
(c) His will.
(d) His life.

11. Who enters to guard Cleopatra while Proculeius reports to Caesar?
(a) Mecaenas.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Dolabella.
(d) Gallus.

12. What does Antony compare to the spirit of a youth who "means to be of note," in Act 4, Scene 4?
(a) A battle fought at night.
(b) The sight of one's beloved before battle.
(c) The present morning.
(d) The sound of trumpets before war.

13. What is the Greek name for "holy Phoebus" to whom Antony refers?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Ares.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

14. Of what does Antony say Cleopatra is armorer?
(a) His army.
(b) His soul.
(c) His courage.
(d) His heart.

15. Caesar says that the news of Antony's death is tidings enough to wash the eyes of whom?
(a) Women.
(b) Gods.
(c) Kings.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Cleopatra say she and her companions shall make proud to take them?

2. What does Antony call Eros after the latter's suicide?

3. What does Cleopatra tell her messenger to report as her last word to Antony?

4. Of what does Caesar say the death of Antony should have made a greater?

5. What do the soldiers hear after Enobarbus dies?

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