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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 animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A crocodile.
(c) A serpent.
(d) A basilisk.

2. What is the meaning of "dolorous" as used by Antony in line 39 of Act 4, Scene 2?
(a) Sorrowful.
(b) Enraged.
(c) Erratic.
(d) Lustful.

3. At whose house does Act 2, Scene 2 unfold?
(a) Agrippa's.
(b) Macaenas's.
(c) Caesar's.
(d) Lepidus's.

4. The Soothsayer tells Antony he ought to go where?
(a) Sicily.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Britony.

5. What does Antony hope to see the enemy numbers of by placing his squadrons on "yond side o' the hill"?
(a) Ships.
(b) Troops.
(c) Siege weapons.
(d) Horses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Antony say is approaching the ports of Rome in the play's first act?

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

4. What does Cleopatra insist Charmian give her to drink at the last scene of Act 1?

5. What does Antony say was tied to Cleopatra's rudder "by the strings"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For what reason does Mecaenas imply that striking Antony while the beleaguered triumvir is in his rage is strategically sound

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

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

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

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

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