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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Caesar say thrives in the idleness of the triumvirs?
(a) Pompey.
(b) Lepidus.
(c) Lucius.
(d) Antony.

2. To whom does Enobarbus speak in the first part of Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Lepidus.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Antony.

3. What does Cleopatra insist Charmian give her to drink at the last scene of Act 1?
(a) Poisoned grape juice.
(b) Wine.
(c) Mandragora.
(d) Milk.

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

5. What literally are "wassails" as used by Caesar to describe Antony's behavior?
(a) Whinings.
(b) Revelries.
(c) Lustful endeavors.
(d) Foreign travels.

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

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

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

9. What location is reported as being taken by Caesar in Act 3, Scene 7?
(a) Toyne.
(b) Actium.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Athens.

10. Where is Antony reported as being, by Caesar, in Act 3, Scene 6?
(a) Syria.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Athens.

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

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

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

14. Where does Caesar say that Pompey resides in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Florence.
(c) Misenum.
(d) Messina.

15. Where does Antony, through Euphornius, request to live if Egypt is denied to him by Caesar?
(a) Corinth.
(b) Syria.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rhodes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Towards where do the ships of the defeated flee?

2. How does Antony have Thyreus's punished?

3. With what does Caesar reward his army in the beginning of Act 4?

4. For what reason does Caesar claim he arrested Lepidus?

5. What of Cleopatra's does Antony say repays him for the loss at Actium?

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