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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 9 | Act 3, Scene 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Antony told concerning his wife in the play's second scene?
(a) Her death.
(b) Her giving birth.
(c) Her coming to him.
(d) Her re-marriage.

2. What, according to Enobarbus, ails Lepidus after the meeting with Pompey?
(a) A broken heart.
(b) The green sickness.
(c) A rheumatism.
(d) Blindness.

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

4. Where is Pompey's house that serves as the setting for the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Florence.
(b) Messina.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Pompey to the meeting with the triumvirs?

2. Which of the following accompanies Pompey at his house?

3. Who is sent by Antony to intervene with Caesar in an attempt to prevent civil war?

4. In what isle was Sextus Pompeius "spoil'd" by the account of Caesar?

5. What animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?

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