Julius Caesar Acts I and II

Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"But let not therefore my good friends be grieved...

Nor construe any further my neglect

Than that Brutus, with himself at war,

Forgets the shows of love to other men." - Brutus, I.ii.43-47

• interpret

• disprove

• exalt

• fear

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown, yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put it by once, But for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it." - Casca, II.ii.235-239

• unwillingly

• gladly

• quickly

• fearfully

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough

To mask they monstrous visage?" - Brutus, II.i.80-81

• logic

• action

• expression

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines: "She dreamt tonight she saw my statue, Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts, Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it. And these does she apply for warnings and portents..." - Caesar, II.ii.76-80

• signs

• truths

• falsehoods

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As Casca tells it, first ​ (a)   After each offering the people ​ (b)   Caesar ​ (c)   ​ , but before falling, he had offered the people ​ (d)   Finally, he ​ (e)   and

• Antony offers Caesar the crown three times.

• shouted, hooted, and clapped their hands.

• fell down and foamed at the mouth

• his throat to cut.

• came to himself again

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;

If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive." - Artemidorus, II.iii.12-13

• confess

• plot

• hide

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar." - Metellus Cimber, III.i. 33

• powerful

• considerate

• infirm

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your

senses, that you may the better judge." - Brutus, III.iI.16-17

• judge

• acclaim

• bolster

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"...if I were disposed to stir

Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,

I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong," - Brutus, III.iI.16-17

• comply

• revolt

• yield

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Use context clues to identify the BEST definition of the underlined word in the following lines:

"Grant that, and then is death a benefit;

So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged

His time of fearing death." - Brutus, III.i.104-106

• stretched

• shortened

• prolonged

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