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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the status of the man Antony sends as an ambassador to Caesar after Actium?
(a) A provincial governor.
(b) A king.
(c) A schoolmaster.
(d) A herald.

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

3. What does Antony's betrothed say she shall do when Antony is about the world?
(a) Curse him.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Write to him.
(d) Think of him.

4. Who accompanies Pompey to the meeting with the triumvirs?
(a) Canidius.
(b) Menas.
(c) Menecrates.
(d) Varrius.

5. Upon whose trencher does Antony say he found Cleopatra as a "cold morsel"?
(a) Living Caesar's.
(b) Pompey's.
(c) Dead Caesar's.
(d) Rameses's.

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

7. What action of Thyreus's inspires Mark Antony to have him punished?
(a) Holding Cleopatra's hand.
(b) Kissing Cleopatra's hand.
(c) Bring Cleopatra a letter.
(d) Insulting Mark Antony.

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

9. What is the name of Mark Antony's wife?
(a) Fulvia.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Charmian
(d) Iras.

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

11. How does Antony have Thyreus's punished?
(a) By hanging.
(b) By mutilating his lips.
(c) By castration.
(d) By whipping.

12. What is the name of the lieutenant of Caesar, who leads his land army?
(a) Scarus.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Taurus.
(d) Thyreus.

13. What does Antony hope to see the enemy numbers of by placing his squadrons on "yond side o' the hill"?
(a) Siege weapons.
(b) Troops.
(c) Horses.
(d) Ships.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When asked by Cleopatra "what shall we do?" in Act 3, Scene 13, what does Enobarbus reply?

3. What animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?

4. Where is Pompey's house that serves as the setting for the beginning of Act 2?

5. To whom does Enobarbus attribute all the fault of the defeat in battle at Actium?

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