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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the man who accompanies Caesar in Act 3, Scene 8?
(a) Taurus.
(b) Canidius.
(c) Agrippa.
(d) Scarus.

4. In what isle was Sextus Pompeius "spoil'd" by the account of Caesar?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Rhodes.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Crete.

5. What effect does Antony's odd trick in speaking to his servants produce on the servants?
(a) They quail.
(b) They flee.
(c) They weep.
(d) They laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Alexas use as an example in saying that no one would dare not look on Cleopatra when she is ill-pleased?

2. Who brings news to Pompey that Mark Antony is returning to Rome?

3. It is reported in Act 3, Scene 5, that Caesar has arrested whom?

4. What does Antony's betrothed say she shall do when Antony is about the world?

5. What does Cleopatra imagine Antony calls her at the end of the first act?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it suggested by Agrippa that Mark Antony be married to Octavia?

2. What is the result of Antony's fleeing from Actium?

3. In what way does Antony compose himself in Act 4, Scene 2?

4. How does Caesar instruct Thyreus to win Cleopatra from Antony?

5. For what reasons are tensions brewing between Antony and Caesar in Act 3, Scene 4?

6. For what reason does Antony spurn the news that has come from Rome at the play's beginning?

7. How does Menas propose to make Pompey the ruler of the world?

8. What characterizes Antony's speech after Actium, before Cleopatra arrives, at the palace in Alexandria?

9. What characterizes the manner with which Cleopatra reacts to Antony's decisions?

10. What characterizes the reports that the messenger gives to Cleopatra of Octavia?

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