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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. Towards where do the ships of the defeated flee?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Peloponnesus.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sicily.

2. It is reported in Act 3, Scene 5, that Caesar has arrested whom?
(a) Lepidus.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Menas.
(d) Antony.

3. Who is Bacchus, as referenced in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) The God of Wine.
(b) Cleopatra's Minister.
(c) The God of Dancing.
(d) Ptolemy's assistant.

4. Whom does Enobarbus say he will follow now that the battle is over?
(a) Caesar.
(b) No one.
(c) Lepidus.
(d) Antony.

5. Which of the following accompanies Pompey at his house?
(a) Enorbarbus.
(b) Lepidus.
(c) Menecrates.
(d) Demetrius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What of Cleopatra's does Antony say repays him for the loss at Actium?

2. Whose presence does Enorbarbus say must puzzle Antony?

3. What animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?

4. What action of Thyreus's inspires Mark Antony to have him punished?

5. To whom does the triumphant victor in the first scene of Act 3 speak?

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. How does Cleopatra act in Antony's absence?

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

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

6. Why does Octavius Caesar lament the absence of Mark Antony?

7. For what reason does Ventidius claim he leaves some soldiering undone?

8. Why does Enobarbus tell Menas that that which has caused amity between Caesar and Antony will likewise "prove the immediate author of their variance"?

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

10. What is the meaning and significance of "a Lethe'd dulness" as Pompey uses the phrase in line 27 of Act 2, Scene 1?

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