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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Cleopatra's initial fear when a messenger arrives from Italy in Act 2, Scene 5?
(a) Antony's marriage.
(b) Pompey's victory.
(c) Antony's death.
(d) Antony's ailing.

3. Pompey tells Menas in Act 2, Scene 7, that his honor leads his what?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Head.
(c) Heart.
(d) Profit.

4. For what reason does Caesar claim he arrested Lepidus?
(a) Lepidus's envy.
(b) Lepidus's suspicious behavior.
(c) Lepidus's greed.
(d) Lepidus's cruelty.

5. In Act 3, Scene 5, who delivers news to Enobarbus?
(a) Eros.
(b) Enomus.
(c) Silius.
(d) Vertidius.

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

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

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

9. Who does Antony say is approaching the ports of Rome in the play's first act?
(a) Octavius.
(b) Sextus Pompeius.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Lepidus.

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

11. About what age does the messenger report his guessing of Octavia's age to Cleopatra?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

12. 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 dying honor.
(c) His wilted love.
(d) His deflated army.

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

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

15. How many days does Lepidus say Mecaenas and Agrippa will gain on him?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Caesar say he will attack after receiving Antony's challenge?

2. Pompey relates to Mark Antony the coming of whom to Sicily?

3. What does Antony hope to see the enemy numbers of by placing his squadrons on "yond side o' the hill"?

4. What is the "Tiber" to which Antony refers at the beginning of the play?

5. In what isle was Sextus Pompeius "spoil'd" by the account of Caesar?

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