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Julius Caesar Test Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which rhetorical device appeals to the audience's emotions?

a)

Ethos Appeal

b)

Logos Appeal

c)

Pathos Appeal

2.

Which rhetorical device appeals to common sense, facts, and/or numbers (statistics)?

a)

Pathos Appeal

b)

Logos Appeal

c)

Ethos Appeal

3.

Which rhetorical device is used to show credibility/trustworthiness?

a)

Pathos Appeal

b)

Ethos Appeal

c)

Logos Appeal

4.

What rhetorical device did Mark Antony use in his funeral speech with the words "honorable" and "ambitious"?

a)

Repetition

b)

Allegory

c)

Allusion

5.

What is TONE in a text?

a)

Character's attitude

b)

Feelings of characters

c)

Author's attitude

d)

Author's mood

6.

What do you need to do when you see a word that you DO NOT KNOW??????!

a)

GET A DICTIONARY- LOOK IT UP- DON"T GUESS

b)

GET A DICTIONARY- LOOK IT UP- DON"T GUESS

c)

GET A DICTIONARY- LOOK IT UP- DON"T GUESS

d)

GET A DICTIONARY- LOOK IT UP- DON"T GUESS

7.
The storm in Act 1, scene iii can serve as what?
a)
pun
b)
foreshadowing
c)
dialogue
d)
allusion
8.
At the beginning of Act I, Scene i how do we know that Caesar is a powerful man?
a)
He defeated Brutus in a fight
b)
He defeated Pompey in a civil war
c)
He beat Mark Antony in a wrestling match
d)
He beat Cassius across a river in a swimming contest
9.
What is another name for "soothsayer?"
a)
trouble maker
b)
fortune teller
c)
cobbler
d)
story teller
10.
Caesar is thought to have:
a)
leprosy (the skin sickness)
b)
pneumonia (the lung sickness)
c)
cholera (the digestive sickness)
d)
epilepsy (the falling sickness)
11.
Caesar is warned to beware of what?
a)
The ides of February
b)
The ides of March
c)
The ides of April
d)
The ides of May
12.

How many times was Caesar offered the crown?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

13.

"ides" represents which day of the month?

a)

1st

b)

15th

c)

20th

d)

30th

14.

Why does Caesar want Antony to touch Calpurnia during the race of Lupercal?

a)

to cure her illness

b)

to make sure she's alive

c)

she's barren/infertile

d)

so he gets the crown and becomes emperor

15.

Caesar reacts to the Soothsayer's warning by:

a)

assembling the troops

b)

calling him a dreamer

c)

hiding in his house

d)

taking it to the Senate

16.

Who is the author of Julius Caesar?

a)

Virgil

b)

Shakespeare

c)

Homer

d)

Caesar

17.

Scene 1: "Let's be sacrificers, not butchers... We shall be called purgers, not murderers." Identify the speaker.

a)

Decius

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Antony

18.

The quote "Our course will seem too bloody... To cut the head off and then hack the limbs... For Antony is but a limb of Caesar" is an example of...

a)

metaphor

b)

apostrophe

c)

simile

d)

consonance

19.

Identify the speaker: "A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter./ Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so father'd, and so husbanded?/ Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose them."

a)

Brutus

b)

Portia

c)

Calpurnia

d)

Lucius

20.

Identify the speaker: "Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,/ Yet now they fright me. There is one within,/ Besides the things that we have heard and seen,/ Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. / A lioness hath whelped in the streets,/ And graves yawned up and yield up their dead."

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Decius

d)

Brutus

21.

Who says, "If thou read this, O Caesar, Thou mayest live."

a)

Artemidorus

b)

Soothsayer

c)

Brutus

d)

Caius Ligarius

22.

Who convinces Caesar to go to the Capitol on March 15th?

a)

Decius

b)

Brutus

c)

Cassius

d)

Caius Ligarius

23.
What organ was missing from the sacrificed animal?
a)
Liver
b)
Heart
c)
Stomach
d)
Lungs
24.

Brutus says he killed Caesar because he loved....

a)

Rome

b)

Portia

c)

Honor

d)

Democracy

25.

Brutus tells the crowd that he hated Caesar for his crimes against Rome.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

After Brutus speaks to the Romans, the crowd wants him....

a)

Crowned Emperor

b)

Banished

c)

Killed

d)

Arrested

27.

Iambic Pentameter is a line of five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.

a)

True

b)

False

28.
(Scene 1) In Caesar's last speeches, when he refuses to pardon Publius Cimber, his tone is:
a)
Proud and arrogant
b)
Excited and irrational
c)
Reasonable and accommodating
d)
Kind and sympathetic
29.
(Scene 1) "O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / that I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times. / Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!"  Identify the speaker.
a)
Antony
b)
Artemidorus
c)
Brutus
d)
Cassius
30.

The first to stab Caesar is:

a)

Casca

b)

Cassius

c)

Decius

d)

Brutus

31.

Why does Antony point to the wounds on Caesar's body and the tears in his cloak and identify whose dagger made each one?

a)

It shows Antony saw the murder and knows who is responsible.

b)

It increases Antony's credibility with the crowd.

c)

It emphasizes the treachery involved and makes each conspirator personally responsible for Caesar's death.

d)

He is so horrified by the crime that he can't help exclaiming over it.

32.

What do Antony's speeches in Act III reveal (show) about his character?

a)

He uses the deeds of others to his advantage.

b)

He is both loyal to Caesar and also very clever.

c)

He did not truly care for Caesar.

d)

He is unaware of his effect on others.

33.

What news is reported to Antony at the end of Act 3 Scene 2?

a)

The conspirators are celebrating in the city streets.

b)

Caesar's funeral is over.

c)

Caesar's heir, Octavius, has arrived in Rome.

d)

The mob is on the way to declare him king.

34.

During his speech, Antony uses irony when he repeatedly refers to the conspirators as:

a)

murderers

b)

honorable men

c)

friends

d)

liars

35.

In his will, Caesar leaves the plebeians all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

75 drachmas

b)

private arbors

c)

new-planted orchards

d)

25 silver coins

36.

What impression does Shakespeare give of the plebeians?

a)

They are easily manipulated.

b)

They are men of principle.

c)

They respect the noblemen.

d)

They do not care for politics.

37.

Who do the commoners kill because his name is the same as one of the conspirators?

a)

Casca

b)

Cassius

c)

Cinna

d)

Cimber

38.

"Speak, hands, for me!" is an example of:

a)

Personification

b)

Metaphor

c)

Simile

d)

Allusion

39.

Why does Brutus speak first after Caesar's death?

a)

To convince Antony that their actions were valid.

b)

Because he loved Caesar most.

c)

To sway the plebeians in favor of the conspiracy.

d)

Because he was tired and wanted to leave first.

40.

Caesar is, according to his own description, "as constant as __________________":

a)

two lions littered in the same day

b)

the northern star

c)

Mount Olympus

d)

Brutus