The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts Four& Five Study Guide Movie Only

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts Four& Five Study Guide – Movie Only Act IV 1. Who are the 3 people now ruling Rome?

2. What kind of list are the three making at the beginning of the scene?

3. What does Antony say they will do to Caesar’s will?

4. What is Antony’s opinion of Lepidus, i.e. what does he call him?

5. Why is Cassius mad at Brutus?

6. What does Brutus accuse Cassius of?

7. What happened to Portia and how?

8. Brutus and Cassius have a disagreement about battle strategy. What is the argument and who wins?

9. What unexpected visitor does Brutus see when everyone else is asleep?

10. What message does this visitor bring?

11. Before the battle of Philippi, Brutus tells Cassius:

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyages of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. -- IV.iii.216-219 Brutus means that: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Acts Four& Five Study Guide – Movie Only Act V 1. About what do Octavius and Antony argue? (before they encounter Brutus and Cassius)

2. Who wins the first battle? (Cassius tells you as he is talking to Titinius.)

3. What does Cassius send Titinius to do?

4. What is significant about this day for Cassius?

5. After Pendarus brings back news about Titinuius, who does Cassius kill and why?

6. Who is Pindarus? How does the death in #5 help him?

7. What mistake caused the death of Cassius?

8. What does Brutus ask Volomnius to do?

9. How does Brutus die?

10. According to Marc Antony, why is Brutus better than the other conspirators?

Quotations – Who said it and to whom? 1. “A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honor, Joined with a masker and a reveler!”

2. “This morning are they fled away and gone, And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites Fly o’er our heads and downward look on us As we were sickly prey.”

3. “---Caesar, thou art revenged Even with the sword that killed thee.”

4. “This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them.”