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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Alexas use as an example in saying that no one would dare not look on Cleopatra when she is ill-pleased?
(a) Rameses II.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Octavius Caesar.
(d) Herod of Jewry.

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

3. In what isle was Sextus Pompeius "spoil'd" by the account of Caesar?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Sicily.
(c) Rhodes.
(d) Crete.

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

5. Whom does Cleopatra send to report on the features of Octavia?
(a) Alexas.
(b) Iras.
(c) Mardian.
(d) Charmian.

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

7. In what field of battle does Antony proclaim he will engage Caesar in Act 3, Scene 7?
(a) The sea.
(b) Macedonia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Armenia.

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

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

10. To whom does Enobarbus attribute all the fault of the defeat in battle at Actium?
(a) Himself.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Cleopatra.
(d) Mark Antony.

11. What is the status of the man Antony sends as an ambassador to Caesar after Actium?
(a) A schoolmaster.
(b) A provincial governor.
(c) A herald.
(d) A king.

12. What literally are "wassails" as used by Caesar to describe Antony's behavior?
(a) Lustful endeavors.
(b) Whinings.
(c) Foreign travels.
(d) Revelries.

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

14. 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 flagging nobility.
(c) His deflated army.
(d) His dying honor.

15. According to Canidius, where did Caesar fight Pompey?
(a) Macedonia.
(b) Pharsalia.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) The Alps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon whose trencher does Antony say he found Cleopatra as a "cold morsel"?

2. It is reported in Act 3, Scene 5, that Caesar has arrested whom?

3. What does Cleopatra imagine Antony calls her at the end of the first act?

4. To whom does Caesar compare Octavia's return to Rome?

5. Who does Cleopatra want to send to find Antony in Act 1, Scene 3?

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