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Julius Caesar

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

a)

154

b)

175

c)

200

d)

247

2.

When was William Shakespeare born?

a)

1516

b)

1564

c)

1603

d)

1616

3.

When did Shakespeare die?

a)

1516

b)

1564

c)

1603

d)

1616

4.

Marullus and Flavius were...

a)

generals

b)

plebians

c)

senators

d)

tribunes

5.

Cassius was a(n)...

a)

Epicurean

b)

Platonist

c)

Stoic

d)

Thomist

6.

Brutus was a(an)...

a)

Epicurean

b)

Stoic

c)

Platonist

d)

Thomist

7.

Cicero could speak well in what foreign language?

a)

English

b)

Greek

c)

Hebrew

d)

Spanish

8.

Who was the first person to stab Caesar?

a)

Brutus

b)

Casca

c)

Cassius

d)

Cicero

9.

Portia was the daughter of which prominent statesman?

a)

Cato

b)

Cicero

c)

Plubius

d)

Pompey

10.

Who said: "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

a)

Mark Antony

b)

Brutus

c)

Caesar

d)

Messala

11.

Who said: "Between the acting of a dreadful thing

And the first motion, all the interim is

Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream."

a)

Mark Antony

b)

Brutus

c)

Cassius

d)

Decius

12.

Who said: "This day I breathed first; time is come round,

And where I did begin, there shall I end."

a)

Caesar

b)

Octavius

c)

Cassius

d)

Lepidus

13.

Who said: "Not that I have loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."

a)

Mark Antony

b)

Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Artemidorus

14.

Who said: "Even so great men great losses should endure."

a)

Messala

b)

Decius

c)

Cato

d)

Cicero

15.

Who said: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

a)

Antony

b)

Brutus

c)

Casca

d)

Cassius

16.

Who is being described: "This was the noblest Roman of them all."

a)

Brutus

b)

Caesar

c)

Octavius

d)

Antony

17.

Who is being described: "For he will never follow anything

That other men begin."

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cinna

d)

Cassius

18.

Who is being described: " . . . for he is given

To sports, to wildness, and much company."

a)

Antony

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Caesar

19.

Who is being described: " . . . you yourself

Are much condemned to have an itching palm."

a)

Cassius

b)

Brutus

c)

Decius

d)

Cinna

20.

What was the name of the theater where Shakespeare's company performed?

a)

Globe Theater

b)

World Theater

c)

Royal Theater

d)

Universal Studios

21.

In Elizabethan theaters, what time of day was most common for performances?

a)

afternoon

b)

evening

c)

dawn

d)

sunset

22.

Caesar was warned to beware the "ides," or the fifteenth, of what month?

a)

March

b)

May

c)

July

d)

April

23.

Where did the battle in Act V take place?

a)

Philippi

b)

Corinth

c)

Ephesus

d)

Rome

24.

Who tried to warn Caesar of the conspiracy?

a)

Artemidorus

b)

Calpurnia

c)

Portia

d)

Pindarus

25.

Who was Caesar's wife?

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Cleopatra

d)

Diana

26.

Who was the servant to Brutus?

a)

Lucius

b)

Decius

c)

Pindarus

d)

Titinius

27.

Who was the poet mistaken for one of the conspirators?

a)

Cinna

b)

Cicero

c)

Lucius

d)

Artemidorus

28.

Who was Brutus's wife?

a)

Portia

b)

Calpurnia

c)

Lydia

d)

Nefertiti

29.

Who was chosen to lead Caesar to the Senate?

a)

Decius

b)

Artemidorus

c)

Casca

d)

Titinius

30.

Who was the servant to Cassius?

a)

Pindarus

b)

Calpurnia

c)

Cicero

d)

Pinterest

31.

Who was Caesar's nephew and heir?

a)

Octavius

b)

Lepidus

c)

Antony

d)

Decius

32.

Who offered Caesar a crown?

a)

Antony

b)

Brutus

c)

Artemidorus

d)

Octavius

33.

Who convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy?

a)

Portia

b)

Cassius

c)

Cicero

d)

Decius

34.

Essay: Explain how Mark Antony's funeral speech stirred public response toward the assassination of Caesar. Cite at least three elements of persuasion that he used to turn the opinion of the people against Brutus and the conspirators.

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