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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why do the conspirators bathe their hands in Caesar's blood?
To show that they were murderers
To fulfill what the Soothsayer warned him of
To make their act seem like a sacrifice
To make all of them equally guilty
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why does Antony grieve after Caesar's death and then pledges allegiance (loyalty) to the conspirators?
Both his grief and pledge are sincere
His grief is sincere, but his pledge is insincere
Both are insincere because he doesn't want to be suspected
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the tactical (planned) error Shakespeare creates when Brutus allows Antony to do what?
Give a second funeral oration
Flee the country
Create mass chaos in Rome
- 4. Multiple Choice
How is Antony's speech so effective?
Antony appeals to the crowd's emotions
Antony is dishonest and sly.
Antony adheres only to facts
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the main difference between Brutus' and Antony's funeral orations (speeches)?
Brutus offends the Roman plebians; Antony wins their approval
Brutus focuses on Caesar; Antony focuses on Rome's greatness
Brutus argues that Caesar was ambitious; Antony argues that Caesar wasn't ambitious
- 6. Multiple Choice
Whom is Antony referring to as "the noblest man that ever lived in the tides of time"?
Antony calls Caesar this while speaking to his corpse.
Antony calls Brutus this in his funeral oration.
Antony calls Octavius this because he is Caesar's heir.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What document does Antony share with the Roman mob?
Caesar's journal
Caesar's will
Brutus' will
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat did Caesar leave the people in his will?money for each citizen, private gardens and orchardsnothing, he really would have become a tyranta park set aside for a statue of him to be honoredhis silver, gold, and precious works of art
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe items Caesar left in his will reveal what about him?that he really did care for the people of Romethat he really was nothing but a proud arrogant manthat he had his wife's best interest in mindnone of these are true
- 10. Multiple Choice
Brutus says he killed Caesar because he loved....
Rome
Portia
Honor
Democracy
- 11. Multiple Choice
When Antony concludes his speech, the crowd sees Brutus and the other conspirators as enemies.
True
False
- 12. Multiple Choice
When Marc Antony begins his speech, the people are hostile towards him; what is the first thing he does to get the crowd on his side?
He promises them money if they listen to him
He makes the people question whether or not Caesar really was ambitious like Brutus says he was
He immediately read them the will of Caesar
He begins his speech by showing them the dead body
- 13. Multiple Choice
In Antony's funeral speech from Act III of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, why does he repeat the lines "But Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honorable man"?
to show his support for Brutus
to explain Brutus' decisions
to make people question Brutus' honor
to show his uncertainty about whose side he should be on
- 14. Multiple Choice
I am no orator, as Brutus is…
But were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar's that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Which answer choice most accurately restates Antony's meaning in the above lines from Act III, Scene ii, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
If I were as great a speaker as Brutus, I could convince you to seek vengeance for Caesar's death.
If I were as great a speaker as Brutus, I could make you wail and weep for Caesar's tragic fate.
If I were as great a man as Brutus, I could smooth the stones that pave the streets of Rome.
If I were as great a speaker as Brutus, I could convince you that Caesar is still alive.
- 15. Multiple Choice
What impression of the plebeians does Shakespeare give in Act III of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
They are intelligent and clever.
They respect all the nobles of Rome.
They do not care about politics.
They are easily manipulated.
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