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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With what word does Enobarbus describe his revolt in comparison to Antony's nobility?
(a) Incongruous.
(b) Famed.
(c) Infamous.
(d) Insular.

3. Of whom does Cleopatra report dreaming in Act 5, Scene 2?
(a) Herself.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Emperor Antony.
(d) A god.

4. With what does Cleopatra kill herself?
(a) Poison.
(b) Asps.
(c) A spear.
(d) A dagger.

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

6. What does Enobarbus throw against the "flint and hardness" of his fault, figuratively speaking?
(a) His heart.
(b) His soul.
(c) His will.
(d) His life.

7. What does Antony compare to the spirit of a youth who "means to be of note," in Act 4, Scene 4?
(a) A battle fought at night.
(b) The sound of trumpets before war.
(c) The present morning.
(d) The sight of one's beloved before battle.

8. To what spurned suicidal lover of Roman lore does Antony refer?
(a) Octavia.
(b) Venus.
(c) Dido.
(d) Ceres.

9. Upon what does one of the soldiers place his hope of the battle on foot in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) The horse.
(b) The sun.
(c) The navy.
(d) The heat.

10. Where does Caesar say Cleopatra will be buried?
(a) In the sea.
(b) In Rome.
(c) By Antony.
(d) Beneath the city.

11. Who accompanies Antony at the outset of Act 4, Scene 12?
(a) Eros.
(b) Diomedes.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Scarus.

12. How many soldiers speak in Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

13. Where does Enobarbus seek to die?
(a) A ditch.
(b) A ship.
(c) A bed.
(d) The Nile.

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

15. To whose "prepared nails" does Antony refer?
(a) Fulvia's.
(b) Death's.
(c) Cleopatra's.
(d) Octavia's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose of Caesar's does Antony insist alone is worthy of trust?

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

3. Whom does Cleopatra name as her treasurer?

4. In whose arms does Mark Antony die?

5. For what does Antony tell Eros he has made the wars with Caesar?

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