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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Antony kiss Cleopatra before departing for battle near Alexandria?
(a) On the cheek.
(b) On the hand.
(c) Like a husband.
(d) Like a soldier.

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

3. Of what does Antony say Cleopatra is armorer?
(a) His courage.
(b) His heart.
(c) His soul.
(d) His army.

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

5. Who arrives and claims that the enemy is beaten and his side's advantage serves for "a fair victory" in the seventh scene of the fourth act?
(a) Enobarbus.
(b) Eros.
(c) Mecaenas.
(d) Agrippa.

6. Upon what does Antony say he will look in line 9 of Act 4's tenth scene?
(a) The enemy's endeavor.
(b) Cleopatra's coutenance.
(c) The blood of Caesar.
(d) His own troops' discipline.

7. What does Antony call the work of a soldier in war?
(a) A daily labor.
(b) The great test.
(c) A gruesome drudergy.
(d) The royal occupation.

8. Of what does Caesar say the death of Antony should have made a greater?
(a) Noise.
(b) Crack.
(c) Notice.
(d) Light.

9. With whom has Antony's most recent deserter been discovered in Act 4, Scene 5?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Taurus.
(c) Octavia.
(d) Caesar.

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

11. Who goes to make Caesar's will regarding Antony known to the troops?
(a) Canidius.
(b) Enobarbus.
(c) Agrippa.
(d) Alexas.

12. Whom is it reported by Enobarbus that Caesar has hanged without good reason?
(a) Canidius.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Herod.
(d) Alexas.

13. What is an appropriate synonym for "appointment" as used in line 8 of Act 4, Scene 10?
(a) Disposition.
(b) Intention.
(c) Formation.
(d) Strategy.

14. What do the soldiers resolve to do about the noise in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) Silence it.
(b) Follow it.
(c) Listen to it.
(d) Ignore it.

15. The best force of the opposition is said by the speaker of the play's shortest scene to be put where?
(a) Up the river.
(b) To the galleys.
(c) On the land.
(d) Between the hills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of "scotches" as used by Scarus?

2. Whose hand does Antony clasp in Act 4, Scene 8?

3. What does Cleopatra tell her messenger to report as her last word to Antony?

4. What has Antony's fleet done at Alexandria?

5. Whom does Antony call a "great fairy"?

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