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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Antony NOT command his men to do after his defeat at Actium?
(a) Fly.
(b) Make peace with Caesar.
(c) Take his gold.
(d) Kill him.

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

3. With whom does Caesar exchange speech in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) Macaenas.
(b) Euphronius.
(c) Thyreus.
(d) Agrippa.

4. At whose house does Act 2, Scene 2 unfold?
(a) Caesar's.
(b) Agrippa's.
(c) Macaenas's.
(d) Lepidus's.

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

6. To what does Antony challenge Caesar in his letter, read at the beginning of Act 4?
(a) A duel.
(b) A battle.
(c) A debate.
(d) A game of wits.

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

8. Whose presence does Enorbarbus say must puzzle Antony?
(a) Canidius's.
(b) Cleopatra's.
(c) Caesar's.
(d) His own.

9. When asked by Cleopatra "what shall we do?" in Act 3, Scene 13, what does Enobarbus reply?
(a) Fight, and live.
(b) Sleep, and die.
(c) Live for now, and soon, die.
(d) Think, and die.

10. What of Cleopatra's does Antony say repays him for the loss at Actium?
(a) A victory.
(b) Her death.
(c) A kiss.
(d) A flagon of wine.

11. Who brings news to Pompey that Mark Antony is returning to Rome?
(a) Menas.
(b) Menecrates.
(c) Silvius.
(d) Varrius.

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

13. Whose ship hoists its sail and flies, "like a cow in June"?
(a) Taurus.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Antony.

14. To whom does the triumphant victor in the first scene of Act 3 speak?
(a) Ventidius.
(b) Silius.
(c) Marcus Crassus.
(d) Pacorus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose body is borne before the triumphant victor in Parthia?

2. What action of Thyreus's inspires Mark Antony to have him punished?

3. Who does Antony say is approaching the ports of Rome in the play's first act?

4. What does Antony hope to see the enemy numbers of by placing his squadrons on "yond side o' the hill"?

5. What does Cleopatra imagine Antony calls her at the end of the first act?

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