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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How man sonnets did Shakespeare write?

a)

15

b)

50

c)

154

d)

200

2.

Shakespeare lived from

a)

1564-1616

b)

1500-1564

c)

1600-1648

d)

1570-1618

3.

What was the name of the theater that is associated with Shakespeare and has been rebuilt and is in use today?

(a)  

4.

Two popular philosophies of the day were Stoicism and Epicurianism. To which philosophy did Brutus hold?

(a)  

5.

Two popular philosophies of the day were Stoicism and Epicurianism. To which philosophy did Cassius hold?

(a)  

6.

Match the character to the description:

Could speak Greek well.

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cato

d)

Cinna

e)

Cassius

7.

Match the character to the description:

The first to stab Caesar.

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cato

d)

Cinna

e)

Cassius

8.

Match the character to the description:

Portia's father.

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cato

d)

Cinna

e)

Cassius

9.

Match the character to the description:

Convinced Brutus to join the conspirators.

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cato

d)

Cinna

e)

Cassius

10.

Match the character to the description:

poet mistaken for a conspirator.

a)

Cicero

b)

Casca

c)

Cato

d)

Cinna

e)

Cassius

11.

Match the character to the description:

prepared a "schedule" to warn Caesar of the conspirators' plan

a)

Artimedorus

b)

Decius Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Mark Antony

e)

Pindarus

12.

Match the character to the description:

went to get Caesar to lead him to the Senate

a)

Artimedorus

b)

Decius Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Mark Antony

e)

Pindarus

13.

Match the character to the description:

nephew to Caesar and next in line to be Caesar

a)

Artimedorus

b)

Decius Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Mark Antony

e)

Pindarus

14.

Match the character to the description:

offered Caesar a crown three times on the Lupercal

a)

Artimedorus

b)

Decius Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Mark Antony

e)

Pindarus

15.

Match the character to the description:

Cassius's servant and present in the battle

a)

Artimedorus

b)

Decius Brutus

c)

Octavius

d)

Mark Antony

e)

Pindarus

16.

Match the character to the description:

Caesar's wife

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Lucius

d)

Flavius and Marullus

17.

Match the character to the description:

Brutus's wife

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Lucius

d)

Flavius and Marullus

18.

Match the character to the description:

Brutus's servant

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Lucius

d)

Flavius and Marullus

19.

Match the character to the description:

Tribunes

a)

Calpurnia

b)

Portia

c)

Lucius

d)

Flavius and Marullus

20.

When were plays usually performed during Elizabethan times?

a)

Morning

b)

Afternoon

c)

Evening

21.

Who said the following:

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

a)

Caesar

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Messala

22.

Who said the following:

"Between the acting of a dreadful thing/And the first motion, all the interim is/Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream."

a)

Caesar

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Messala

23.

Who said the following:

"Even so great men losses should endure."

a)

Caesar

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Messala

24.

Who said the following:

"This day I breathed first; there is come round,/And where I did begin, there shall I end."

a)

Caesar

b)

Cassius

c)

Brutus

d)

Messala

25.

Which character is described by the following quotation:

"he is given to sports, to wildness, and much company."

a)

Brutus

b)

Cassius

c)

Antony

d)

Cicero

26.

Which character is described by the following quotation:

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

a)

Brutus

b)

Cassius

c)

Antony

d)

Cicero

27.

Which character is described by the following quotation:

"you yourself are much condemned to have a n itching palm"

a)

Brutus

b)

Cassius

c)

Antony

d)

Cicero

28.

Which character is described by the following quotation:

"he will never follow anything/That other men begin"

a)

Brutus

b)

Cassius

c)

Antony

d)

Cicero