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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Antony in Act 4, Scene 10?

2. With whom has Antony's most recent deserter been discovered in Act 4, Scene 5?

3. Who brings news to Antony that Cleopatra is not dead?

4. How many times will Antony reward Scarus for his "good valor"?

5. Whom does Cleopatra send to Antony with false report of her death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cleopatra envision her shaming in Rome if she is taken there as a captive?

2. What does the sudden music expose within the soldiers of Antony before the battle at Alexandria?

3. What happens to Enobarbus after his speech in Act 4, Scene 9?

4. How does Antony react to the desertion by Enobarbus?

5. How has the battle gone so far, in Act 4, Scene 7?

6. Why does Caesar insist upon being still with his land forces on the second day of Battle at Alexandria?

7. Why does Enobarbus say he will seek out a ditch in which he may die?

8. How does Antony behave towards his servants before the battle at Alexandria?

9. Why does Cleopatra feign submission to Caesar at the end of the play?

10. In what way is Antony's disposition towards the battle at Alexandria changed on the second day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compose a carefully crafted and well-planned analytical essay on the character of Mark Antony. As the story's protagonist, he is regarded as an extraordinary man whose life ends in exceptional calamity and disintegration. What are his principal character traits? In what ways does Antony stand out from the rest of the characters in the story? How do these contribute to his being an extraordinary man? What affects his downfall? What characterizes the disintegration of Antony's life? How does Antony's life drive the lives of others and the plot of the story? What way of life does Antony represent?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the play, there is a regularly occurring but never explicitly mentioned theme of tyrannical rule. Tyranny, in the modern conception, is defined as the rule of any authoritative figure or body for the sake of his or their own good, without consideration of those who are ruled. In a thoughtful essay, analyze the presence of this theme in all of the powerful rulers throughout the play. How do they rule for their own good? In what way does this rule affect those who are ruled, be it positive or negative? In what scenes or actions do the various rulers evince tyrannical tendencies?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the play, Caesar uses many incidents and faults of others to his own advantage. Although not the philosophy promoted in the 18th century, this is nonetheless an evaluation of people and objects based on their utility, and thus a form of utilitarianism. Compose an analytical essay that evaluates Caesar's methods of evaluating others. In what ways does Caesar put to use other people, objects, incidents, situations, or human faults? Upon what basis does he reward or punish individuals? What is the moral significance of such a method of evaluation? What is problematic about using others as a means to one's own end?

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