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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does the speaker in Act 4, Scene 11, say the speaker and company must go?
(a) To the hills.
(b) To the galleys.
(c) To Alexandria.
(d) To the vales.

2. Whom does Caesar send to accompany the speaker sent to Cleopatra in the first part of the final act?
(a) Dolabella.
(b) Dercetas.
(c) Proculeius.
(d) Gallus.

3. What happens to Cleopatra after Antony's death, in Act 4, Scene 15?
(a) She sits motionless.
(b) She dies.
(c) She wails uncontrollably.
(d) She faints.

4. How does the speaker in Act 4's eleventh scene say the associated army shall be?
(a) Fierce.
(b) Still.
(c) Tired.
(d) Violent.

5. What does Caesar say the world shall bear freely if the battle of Alexandria goes well?
(a) The olive.
(b) The dove.
(c) The corpse of Antony.
(d) Its Caesar.

6. Whom does Cleopatra send to Antony with false report of her death?
(a) Mardian.
(b) Eros.
(c) Iras.
(d) Charmian.

7. What does Antony call Eros after the latter's suicide?
(a) Twice the fool.
(b) Much better the man.
(c) Thrice-nobler than he.
(d) Cleopatra's shadow.

8. Whom does Caesar send to Antony to implore him to surrender in the first scene of the final act?
(a) Dolabella.
(b) Mecaenas.
(c) Agrippa.
(d) Proculeius.

9. What does Antony say his men have all proved themselves in Act 4, Scene 8?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Hector.
(d) Aeneas.

10. What does Cleopatra tell her messenger to report as her last word to Antony?
(a) "Caesar."
(b) "Rome."
(c) "Pompey."
(d) "Antony."

11. How is the army of Caesar preparing for the second day of battle at Alexandria?
(a) By sea.
(b) With fire.
(c) By river.
(d) By land.

12. Whom does Antony command to kill him?
(a) Eros.
(b) Taurus.
(c) Mardian.
(d) Caesar.

13. Who accompanies Cleopatra to her destination in Act 4, Scene 13?
(a) Charmian.
(b) Antony.
(c) Eros.
(d) Mardian.

14. What is the Greek name for "holy Phoebus" to whom Antony refers?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

15. What noise disturbs the soldiers in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) A solitary voice singing.
(b) Moans.
(c) Music.
(d) Screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is it reported by Enobarbus that Caesar has hanged without good reason?

2. Who accompanies Antony at the outset of Act 4, Scene 12?

3. What does Cleopatra say she will give to Scarus for his valor?

4. Who arrives to announce Antony's death to Caesar?

5. Who alone does Cleopatra say is worthy to conquer Antony?

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