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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. Whom does Cleopatra send to report on the features of Octavia?
(a) Iras.
(b) Alexas.
(c) Charmian.
(d) Mardian.
2. Of what is Antony told concerning his wife in the play's second scene?
(a) Her death.
(b) Her coming to him.
(c) Her re-marriage.
(d) Her giving birth.
3. When asked by Cleopatra "what shall we do?" in Act 3, Scene 13, what does Enobarbus reply?
(a) Sleep, and die.
(b) Think, and die.
(c) Live for now, and soon, die.
(d) Fight, and live.
4. Who brings a message from Antony to Cleopatra at the end of the first act?
(a) Enorbarbus.
(b) Lepidus.
(c) Alexas.
(d) Iras.
5. The Soothsayer tells Antony he ought to go where?
(a) Britony.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Egypt.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Antony hope to see the enemy numbers of by placing his squadrons on "yond side o' the hill"?
2. To what does Antony challenge Caesar in his letter, read at the beginning of Act 4?
3. About what age does the messenger report his guessing of Octavia's age to Cleopatra?
4. What is the "Tiber" to which Antony refers at the beginning of the play?
5. Where does Caesar say that Pompey resides in Act 2, Scene 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Menas propose to make Pompey the ruler of the world?
2. For what reason does the Soothsayer tell Antony he must go back to Egypt?
3. What characterizes the manner with which Cleopatra reacts to Antony's decisions?
4. What characterizes the responses by Antony's subordinates to his announcement that he will fight Caesar by sea at Actium?
5. Under what condition would Caesar grant lands in Sicily to Mark Antony?
6. In what way does Antony compose himself in Act 4, Scene 2?
7. For what reason does Cleopatra send Alexas to Italy?
8. For what reason does Cleopatra fly into a rage in the fifth scene of the second act?
9. What is the result of Antony's fleeing from Actium?
10. For what reason does Ventidius claim he leaves some soldiering undone?
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