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

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

3. Which of the following accompanies Pompey at his house?
(a) Demetrius.
(b) Enorbarbus.
(c) Lepidus.
(d) Menecrates.

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

5. To where does Antony decide he must go in the beginning of the play?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Rome.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Antony challenge Caesar in his letter, read at the beginning of Act 4?

2. How does Caesar respond to Antony's challenge?

3. What, according to Enobarbus, ails Lepidus after the meeting with Pompey?

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

5. Who does Caesar say thrives in the idleness of the triumvirs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do his companions react to Antony's speeches in Act 4, Scene 2?

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

6. For what reasons are tensions brewing between Antony and Caesar in Act 3, Scene 4?

7. For what reason does Ventidius claim he leaves some soldiering undone?

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

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

10. What causes Antony to experience a dramatic change at the play's beginning?

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