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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. It is reported in Act 3, Scene 5, that Caesar has arrested whom?
(a) Menas.
(b) Pompey.
(c) Lepidus.
(d) Antony.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Antony reported as being, by Caesar, in Act 3, Scene 6?

2. In Act 3, Scene 5, who delivers news to Enobarbus?

3. What animal does Antony jokingly describe for the drunken Lepidus?

4. When does Caesar say he will attack after receiving Antony's challenge?

5. How does Cleopatra intend to act on the occasion that Antony is sad in Act 1, Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cleopatra act in Antony's absence?

3. What characterizes the reports that the messenger gives to Cleopatra of Octavia?

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

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

6. What does Caesar imply by his directions regarding giving the soldiers a feast the night before the battle at Alexandria?

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

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

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

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

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