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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. What does Caesar's companion say indicates Antony is ready to fall in the beginning of the fourth act?
(a) Antony's flight.
(b) Antony's rage.
(c) Antony's pride.
(d) Antony's cowardice.

2. With what does Caesar reward his army in the beginning of Act 4?
(a) A feast.
(b) Honor.
(c) Gold.
(d) Land.

3. What does Cleopatra imagine Antony calls her at the end of the first act?
(a) "The deadly basilisk."
(b) "My gem of Egypt."
(c) "A blot on my conscience."
(d) "My serpent of 'old Nile'."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Enobarbus, ails Lepidus after the meeting with Pompey?

2. Which of the following does Antony NOT command his men to do after his defeat at Actium?

3. To where does Antony send Ventidius in Act 2, Scene 3?

4. What is the name of the lieutenant of Caesar, who leads his land army?

5. What is the "Tiber" to which Antony refers at the beginning of the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What characterizes the responses by Antony's subordinates to his announcement that he will fight Caesar by sea at Actium?

3. What is the significance of the discussion between Enobarbus and Agrippa in the first part of Act 3, Scene 2?

4. Under what condition would Caesar grant lands in Sicily to Mark Antony?

5. For what reason does Cleopatra fly into a rage in the fifth scene of the second act?

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

7. What good does Caesar say that Octavia's letters had done, regarding Antony?

8. What causes Antony to experience a dramatic change at the play's beginning?

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

10. How do his companions react to Antony's speeches in Act 4, Scene 2?

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