Julius Caesar Act I CP

Marullus and Flavius are...

• Angry common citizens

• Angry at the common citizens for their love of Caesar

• Attempting to cause the citizens to riot against Caesar

• Bodyguards of Caesar

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Who says the following: "Beware the Ides of March!"

• Caesar

• Portia

• Decius

• The Fortune Teller/Soothesayer

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who appears to dislike Caesar?

• Antony

• Brutus

• Cassius

• Decius

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Who says the following: "Why, man, he straddles the narrow world like the Colossus of Rhodes, and we lesser men walk beneath his huge legs, peeping around, going to our graves dishonored."

• Cassius

• Caesar

• Brutus

• Antony

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is walking the streets in terror of the storm?

• Cicero

• Casca

• Cassius

• Brutus

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What is the primary conflict?

• Cassius's feelings toward Caesar

• Brutus's relationship with Cassius

• The common people's desire to revolt against the Senate

• The future of Rome under Caesar's leadership should he become king

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Based on the events of Act I, Brutus can most appropriately be described as

• Conflicted

• Angry

• Dim-witted

• Arrogant

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

All of the following are omens presented in scene iii except

• Fire falling from the sky

• Men walking about on fire in the streets without being harmed

• An owl in the marketplace at noon instead of at night time

• A local church exploding from the force of the lightening

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which of the following is a metaphor used in the text?

• "I'll be your mirror then, and tell you faithfully things about yourself that you yourself don't know."

• "It cried, 'Give me something to drink, Titinius,' like a sick girl."

• "He is a dreamer--let us leave him."

• "The sea raged, and we fought against it with vigorous strokes."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Thinking of the context of the act, what is the tone of the following passage:

"Whenever could it be said of Rome--till now--that her wide walls encircled on man only? Rome is rightly named, and room enough, when there's only one 'Rome-man' in it! Oh, and you have heard our fathers say that there was once a man called Brutus who would as soon have let the devil reign in Rome, as tolerate another king."

• Admiring

• Sad

• Angry

• Reflective

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4