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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1 | Act 3, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cleopatra insist Charmian give her to drink at the last scene of Act 1?
(a) Wine.
(b) Milk.
(c) Poisoned grape juice.
(d) Mandragora.

3. What does Antony's betrothed say she shall do when Antony is about the world?
(a) Think of him.
(b) Curse him.
(c) Write to him.
(d) Pray for him.

4. Who accompanies Pompey to the meeting with the triumvirs?
(a) Menas.
(b) Menecrates.
(c) Varrius.
(d) Canidius.

5. Against what does Caesar warn Antony in Act 3, Scene 2?
(a) Loving too dearly.
(b) Imperial ambition.
(c) Reckless violence.
(d) Infidelity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Cleopatra send to report on the features of Octavia?

2. Who emerges triumphant in Parthia?

3. What is Cleopatra's initial fear when a messenger arrives from Italy in Act 2, Scene 5?

4. Where is Pompey's house that serves as the setting for the beginning of Act 2?

5. What, in the play's beginning, is the "tawny front" upon which Antony has turned his view?

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