View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Enobarbus, ails Lepidus after the meeting with Pompey?
(a) The green sickness.
(b) Blindness.
(c) A rheumatism.
(d) A broken heart.

2. Who emerges triumphant in Parthia?
(a) Pacorus.
(b) Enorbarbus.
(c) Ventidius.
(d) Marcus Crassus.

3. What, in the play's beginning, is the "tawny front" upon which Antony has turned his view?
(a) War.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Italy.
(d) Egypt.

4. Who brings a message from Antony to Cleopatra at the end of the first act?
(a) Iras.
(b) Lepidus.
(c) Alexas.
(d) Enorbarbus.

5. What is the name of the lieutenant of Caesar, who leads his land army?
(a) Scarus.
(b) Thyreus.
(c) Agrippa.
(d) Taurus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose flight has given example to the rest of the men on the losing side?

2. Who does Canidius say he will follow now that the battle of Actium is over?

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

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

5. Whom does Caesar send to win Cleopatra from Antony?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Cleopatra expose her true self in Act 3, Scene 13?

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

5. What does Caesar imply by his directions regarding giving the soldiers a feast the night before the battle at Alexandria?

6. How does Cleopatra act in Antony's absence?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 667 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample