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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Enorbarbus predict Antony will be faithful?
(a) Octavia.
(b) Fulvia.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Cleopatra.

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

3. How many times "of better fortune" does Enobarbus say that Caesar is, in comparison to Antony?
(a) Twenty.
(b) A hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twelve.

4. What does Antony, in Act 4, Scene 2's terminal line, say he and his fellows ought to drown?
(a) Woe.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Elation.
(d) Consideration.

5. Which of the following accompanies Pompey at his house?
(a) Menecrates.
(b) Demetrius.
(c) Lepidus.
(d) Enorbarbus.

6. How does Cleopatra intend to act on the occasion that Antony is sad in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Sick.
(b) Confused.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

7. To whom does Caesar compare Octavia's return to Rome?
(a) A queen.
(b) A thief.
(c) A market-maid.
(d) A corpse.

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

9. What does Antony say he will possibly bathe in the "blood / Shall make it live again" in the second scene of the fourth act?
(a) His flagging nobility.
(b) His deflated army.
(c) His wilted love.
(d) His dying honor.

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

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

12. To where does Antony send Ventidius in Act 2, Scene 3?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Parthia.
(d) Gaul.

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

14. In what field of battle does Antony proclaim he will engage Caesar in Act 3, Scene 7?
(a) Armenia.
(b) The sea.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Macedonia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Antony, through Euphornius, request to live if Egypt is denied to him by Caesar?

2. The Soothsayer tells Antony he ought to go where?

3. In what location does Act 3, Scene 4 take place?

4. What, in the play's beginning, is the "tawny front" upon which Antony has turned his view?

5. In praising Antony, Cleopatra says in Act 2, Scene 5, she has dispraised whom?

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