WorksheetsShakespeare's Julius Caesar Acts 2-3 Study Guide
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who was the first person to stab Caesar
Brutus
Casca
Cassius
Antony
Caesar respects Calpurnia (T/F)
True
False
Brutus respects Portia (T/F)
True
False
What does Portia do to prove herself to Brutus
She buys him a new chariot
Pays him money
cut, or stab, her leg
Why does Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, wake up in the middle of the night?
Their bed is lumpy
She has a nightmare that Caesar's fountains ran with blood and the Romans bathed in his blood
she needed to go to the bathroom
She was hungry
How does Decius convince Caesar to come to the Senate?
He proposes an alternative interpretation of Calpurnia's dream
He tells Caesar that the Carpathians are on their way to Rome and they need to assemble the troops
The senate is planning on giving Caesar a crown
He tells him to be a man
Who is waiting near the capitol to warn Caesar
Popilius
Marc Antony
Artemidorus
Casca
What is Metellus Cimber’s complaint in Act 3 Scene 1?
He doesn't like Caesar's haircut
He thinks Caesar chooses favorites
He wants Caesar to repeal the decision of banishing his brother, Publius
He's upset Caesar made them wait so long
What does beseech mean?
to implore, beg urgently
to look for something
to give a persuasive speech
in ancient Roman it meant "late for lunch"
What does Portia mean when she says the following line in Act 2 Scene 4 "I have a man’s mind but a woman’s might"?
She has the mind of a man, which is considered strong and logical in Roman society, and the strength of a woman, which is considered weak in Roman society.
She has Herculean strength.
She has a classical education.
She feels she can be trusted with important secrets.
What does Portia mean when she says "How hard it is for women to keep counsel"?
Women are good listeners and give good advice
Women are strong in Roman society
Women can't keep secrets
Portia is dissing on women
She is advocating for women's rights. Shakespeare was a social justice warrior
What does Brutus mean when he says "Ambition's debt is paid" in Act 3 scene 1?
That Rome is in serious debt and they should go to war
Caesar's death paid "ambition's debt" in full.
Because of his death, Publius Cimber can come back to Rome
Rome will no longer have any more civil unrest
This "American Brutus" echoed Cinna's words when he shouted "Sic semper tyrannous!" after he assassinated (who he thought was) a tyrant
Abraham Lincoln
Donald Trump
John Wilkes Booth
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What reasons does Brutus give for assassinating Caesar
He was ambitious and would have enslaved the Romans
Brutus didn't like Caesar's haircut
He was constantly starting wars with other empires
Brutus loved Rome more
He was stubborn like the "North Star"
When the citizens run into Cinna the Poet and kill him for his "bad verses" that is most likely a joke on who?
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Sir Walter Raleigh
What is Marc Antony's tone in his funeral speech when he says "Brutus is an honorable man"?
Meh
Surprised
Ironic or sarcastic
Happy
After Antony's speech, one of the citizens say "He would not take the crown. / Therefore ’tis certain he was not ambitious" this shows Antony used what kind of appeal?
Pathos/Emotional
Logos/Logical
Ethos/Credible
Kairos/Time
What line in Antony’s speech is an example of paralipsis?
“You all did love him once, not without cause. / What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?”
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”
“It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. . . . ‘Tis good you know not you are his heirs”
“And Brutus is an honorable man.”
The following lines of Brutus’ speech are an example of ________________________ “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was / fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I / honor him; but—as he was ambitious I slew him” (3.2.25-27)
Paralipsis
Antithesis
Anaphora
Rhetorical Question
Which rhetorical appeal is Antony using when he says “I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, / But here I am to speak what I do know”?
Pathos/Emotion
Logos/Logic
Ethos/Credibility
Kairos/Time
