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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the triumphant victor in the first scene of Act 3 speak?
(a) Marcus Crassus.
(b) Ventidius.
(c) Pacorus.
(d) Silius.

2. How does Antony have Thyreus's punished?
(a) By whipping.
(b) By hanging.
(c) By castration.
(d) By mutilating his lips.

3. With whom does Caesar exchange speech in Act 4, Scene 1?
(a) Euphronius.
(b) Macaenas.
(c) Thyreus.
(d) Agrippa.

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

5. With what weapon does Cleopatra threaten the messenger from Italy?
(a) A whip.
(b) A sword.
(c) A spear.
(d) A knife.

6. What does Antony say he will possibly bathe in the "blood / Shall make it live again" in the second scene of the fourth act?
(a) His wilted love.
(b) His deflated army.
(c) His flagging nobility.
(d) His dying honor.

7. Pompey tells Menas in Act 2, Scene 7, that his honor leads his what?
(a) Profit.
(b) Head.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Heart.

8. Who is sent by Antony to intervene with Caesar in an attempt to prevent civil war?
(a) Octavia.
(b) Agrippa.
(c) Enobarbus.
(d) Lepidus.

9. Who does Canidius say he will follow now that the battle of Actium is over?
(a) No one.
(b) Lepidus
(c) Antony.
(d) Caesar.

10. Whose ship hoists its sail and flies, "like a cow in June"?
(a) Antony.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Taurus.

11. Pompey relates to Mark Antony the coming of whom to Sicily?
(a) Mark Antony's mother.
(b) Fulvia.
(c) Lucius.
(d) Mark Antony's father.

12. Who does Caesar say thrives in the idleness of the triumvirs?
(a) Lucius.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Antony.
(d) Lepidus.

13. Whose flight has given example to the rest of the men on the losing side?
(a) Ventidius's.
(b) Caesar's.
(c) Taurus's.
(d) Antony's.

14. What does Antony, in Act 4, Scene 2's terminal line, say he and his fellows ought to drown?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Woe.
(c) Consideration.
(d) Elation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Canidius, where did Caesar fight Pompey?

4. What location is reported as being taken by Caesar in Act 3, Scene 7?

5. What is the meaning of "dolorous" as used by Antony in line 39 of Act 4, Scene 2?

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