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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what is Antony told concerning his wife in the play's second scene?
(a) Her giving birth.
(b) Her re-marriage.
(c) Her death.
(d) Her coming to him.

3. What does Enobarbus say is the cause of the "odd tricks" shot out of Antony's mind?
(a) Pride.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.

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

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

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

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

8. To where does Antony decide he must go in the beginning of the play?
(a) Gaul.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Rome.
(d) Greece.

9. Who does Canidius say he will follow now that the battle of Actium is over?
(a) Antony.
(b) Caesar.
(c) No one.
(d) Lepidus

10. It is reported in Act 3, Scene 5, that Caesar has arrested whom?
(a) Lepidus.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Menas.
(d) Antony.

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

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

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

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

15. What animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?
(a) A crocodile.
(b) A scorpion.
(c) A basilisk.
(d) A serpent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bacchus, as referenced in Act 2, Scene 7?

2. From how many messengers does Antony receive news in Act 1, Scene 2?

3. Whose ship hoists its sail and flies, "like a cow in June"?

4. Whose presence does Enorbarbus say must puzzle Antony?

5. Upon whose trencher does Antony say he found Cleopatra as a "cold morsel"?

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