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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in the play's beginning, is the "tawny front" upon which Antony has turned his view?
(a) War.
(b) Italy.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Egypt.

2. To whom does Enobarbus attribute all the fault of the defeat in battle at Actium?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Himself.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Mark Antony.

3. What is the name of the man who accompanies Caesar in Act 3, Scene 8?
(a) Agrippa.
(b) Canidius.
(c) Taurus.
(d) Scarus.

4. Who emerges triumphant in Parthia?
(a) Ventidius.
(b) Marcus Crassus.
(c) Pacorus.
(d) Enorbarbus.

5. Who is Bacchus, as referenced in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Cleopatra's Minister.
(b) The God of Dancing.
(c) Ptolemy's assistant.
(d) The God of Wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the status of the man Antony sends as an ambassador to Caesar after Actium?

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

3. How does Antony have Thyreus's punished?

4. Whose ship hoists its sail and flies, "like a cow in June"?

5. Where does Caesar say that Pompey resides in Act 2, Scene 2?

(see the answer key)

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