Julius Caesar Quotes Quiz

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English

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9th Grade - University

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Practice Problem

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Easy

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CCSS

RL.2.6, RL.8.3

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This quiz focuses on character identification through memorable quotations from William Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar*, making it appropriate for 9th-12th grade English students studying this foundational tragedy. The questions require students to demonstrate knowledge of major characters—Caesar, Brutus, Mark Antony, Cassius, and Portia—and their distinctive voices, motivations, and key speeches throughout the play. Students must understand character development, thematic significance, and the dramatic context of pivotal scenes to correctly match each quotation to its speaker. The quiz emphasizes critical moments such as the soothsayer's warning, Caesar's reflections on courage and constancy, Antony's funeral oration with its masterful use of irony, Cassius's manipulative rhetoric, and Brutus's moral justifications. Success requires students to analyze Shakespeare's characterization techniques, recognize how language reveals personality and purpose, and understand the political and personal dynamics that drive the plot toward its tragic conclusion. This quiz was created by a classroom teacher who designed it for students studying Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar* in grades 9-12. Teachers can effectively use this assessment as a review activity after students have read the complete play, helping them consolidate their understanding of major characters and their most significant speeches. The quiz works particularly well as a formative assessment before a unit test, as homework to reinforce character analysis skills, or as a warm-up activity to begin discussions about characterization and dramatic techniques. Students benefit from this focused practice in connecting textual evidence to character identity, which strengthens their ability to write analytical essays and participate in class discussions about the play's themes. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards RL.9-10.3 and RL.11-12.3 for analyzing character development, as well as RL.9-10.4 and RL.11-12.4 for determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including their impact on meaning and tone.

Julius Caesar Quotes Quiz

10 questions

Beware the ides of March (1.2.23).

Cowards die many times before their deaths;/
The valiant never taste of death but once (2.2.34).

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;/
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him (3.2.79-80).

Let me have men about me that are fat,/
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights./
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,/
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous (1.2.90-95).

He was my friend, faithful and just to me./
But Brutus says he was ambitious,/
And Brutus is an honourable man (3.2.82-84).

I could be well moved if I were as you./
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me./
But I am constant as the Northern Star,/
Of whose true fixed and resting quality/
There is no fellow in the firmament (3.1.58-62).

And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,/
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,/
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice/
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; (3.1.270-273).

Men at some time are masters of their fates:/
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/
But in ourselves, that we are underlings (1.2.146-8).

Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more (3.2.23)

...If it be no more,/
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife (2.1.914-915).

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Julius Caesar Quotes Quiz

10 questions

Beware the ides of March (1.2.23).

Cowards die many times before their deaths;/The valiant never taste of death but once (2.2.34).

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;/I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him (3.2.79-80).

Let me have men about me that are fat,/Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights./Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,/He thinks too much; such men are dangerous (1.2.90-95).

He was my friend, faithful and just to me./But Brutus says he was ambitious,/And Brutus is an honourable man (3.2.82-84).

I could be well moved if I were as you./If I could pray to move, prayers would move me./But I am constant as the Northern Star,/Of whose true fixed and resting quality/There is no fellow in the firmament (3.1.58-62).

And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,/With Ate by his side come hot from hell,/Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice/Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; (3.1.270-273).

Men at some time are masters of their fates:/The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves, that we are underlings (1.2.146-8).

Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more (3.2.23)

...If it be no more,/ Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife (2.1.914-915).

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;/
The valiant never taste of death but once (2.2.34).

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;/
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him (3.2.79-80).

Let me have men about me that are fat,/
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights./
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,/
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous (1.2.90-95).

He was my friend, faithful and just to me./
But Brutus says he was ambitious,/
And Brutus is an honourable man (3.2.82-84).

I could be well moved if I were as you./
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me./
But I am constant as the Northern Star,/
Of whose true fixed and resting quality/
There is no fellow in the firmament (3.1.58-62).

And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,/
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,/
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice/
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war; (3.1.270-273).

Men at some time are masters of their fates:/
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/
But in ourselves, that we are underlings (1.2.146-8).

...If it be no more,/
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife (2.1.914-915).