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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose flight has given example to the rest of the men on the losing side?
(a) Ventidius's.
(b) Caesar's.
(c) Taurus's.
(d) Antony's.

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

3. Against what does Caesar warn Antony in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Imperial ambition.
(b) Infidelity.
(c) Reckless violence.
(d) Loving too dearly.

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

5. With what does Caesar reward his army in the beginning of Act 4?
(a) A feast.
(b) Gold.
(c) Land.
(d) Honor.

6. 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 wilted love.
(b) His dying honor.
(c) His deflated army.
(d) His flagging nobility.

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

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

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

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

11. In praising Antony, Cleopatra says in Act 2, Scene 5, she has dispraised whom?
(a) Antony.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Herself.
(d) Caesar.

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

13. What does Caesar's companion say indicates Antony is ready to fall in the beginning of the fourth act?
(a) Antony's rage.
(b) Antony's pride.
(c) Antony's cowardice.
(d) Antony's flight.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the messenger report the voice of Octavia to Cleopatra?

3. To whom does Enorbarbus predict Antony will be faithful?

4. What is Cleopatra's initial fear when a messenger arrives from Italy in Act 2, Scene 5?

5. To whom does the triumphant victor in the first scene of Act 3 speak?

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