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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the messenger report the voice of Octavia to Cleopatra?
(a) Low.
(b) High.
(c) Shrill.
(d) Squeaking.

2. With whom has Antony's most recent deserter been discovered in Act 4, Scene 5?
(a) Taurus.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Octavia.
(d) Cleopatra.

3. Towards where do the ships of the defeated flee?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rome.
(d) Peloponnesus.

4. 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.

5. Who does Canidius say he will follow now that the battle of Actium is over?
(a) Lepidus
(b) Caesar.
(c) No one.
(d) Antony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Tiber" to which Antony refers at the beginning of the play?

2. How does Antony have Thyreus's punished?

3. What sort of men does Antony lament his poor fortunes have corrupted?

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

5. What noise disturbs the soldiers in Act 4, Scene 3?

(see the answer key)

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