Julius Caesar Test Review

A. Short answer/ Yes or No- Either answer with a phrase or one word. Otherwise, circle yes (Y) or no (N).

1. Who is the main character of Julius Caesar? Brutus

2. How would you describe the common people of the play? Comical, uneducated; they don’t take things seriously

3. How do Flavius and Marullus feel about the celebration for Caesar at the beginning of the act one? They dislike it

4. Does Brutus attend the races at the Feast of Lupercal? Y/ No

5. Is Caesar frightened by the soothsayer’s warning at the beginning of the play? Y/ No

6. What arguments does Cassius make to explain that Caesar is human?

1. He is weak

2. He gets sick

3. He has epilepsy

7. How many times does Caesar refuse the crown? 3

8. Who is Caesar talking about when he says: “Let me have men about me who are fat”? He is talking about Cassius

9. Why does Cassius want Brutus in the faction of conspirators?

He is honorable, noble and respected.

10. Who does Cassius compare to a serpent’s egg “which, like its kind, will grow mischievous”? Caesar

11. Does Portia know that something amiss is going on? Yes/ N

12. Who writes a letter warning Caesar not to go to the Capitol? Artemidorus

13. Do the augerers think it is safe for Caesar to go the Capitol? Y/ No

14. What does Metellus Cimber ask Caesar before he is assassinated?

To repeal the banishment of his brother

15. What kind of imagery does Mark Antony compare Caesar to after his death?

Hunting imagery- Caesar was compared to a slain deer.

16. Who asks Antony to deliver Caesar’s funeral speech? Brutus

17. Brutus tells the plebeians that Caesar was killed because he was ambitious. Yes/ N

18. What rhetorical device is being used when Brutus repeats “Speak, for him hath I offended”?

Parallel structure 19. How does Antony follow Brutus’ conditions during his speech but still sway the crowd? He uses verbal irony.

20. What happens after Antony says his speech to the crowd?

People begin to riot and rebel against the conspirators.

21. What does the scene with Cinna the poet exemplify?

A mob mentality

22. What do Antony and Octavius argue about Lepidus in Act Four?

Whether or not Lepidus is fit to be a general.

23. What does Brutus mean when he says “Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake? What villain touched his body that did stab and not for justice?”

He questions whether or not the other conspirators had good intentions like he did.

24. Cassius and Brutus are arguing about taking bribes in Act Four. Who took the bribes? Why?

Lucius Pella takes bribes for the Sardians and Cassius was going to let the bribery slide

25. Cassius says he is an older and “abler” (better) soldier. Yes/ N

26. Brutus tells Cassius that he is “sick of many griefs;” Portia is dead. Yes/ N

27. What does Portia die from? Swallowing hot coals

28. How many senators does Messala say have been put to death? 100

29. Who argues that the army should march to Phillipi? Who disagrees? Why?

Cassius wishes to hang back and let the enemy come to them, while Brutus wants to go on the offensive.

30. To whom does Caesar’s ghost appear? Brutus

31. The generals of the two armies exchange taunts before the battle. Yes/ N

32. Who was the noblest Roman of them all? Brutus

B. Figures of Speech/Literary Devices: Define each to the best of your ability

33. simile- comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as” 34. metaphor- comparing two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

35. onomatopoeia- a word that represents a sound

36. contrast- identifying differences between two subjects

37. comparison- Identifying commonalities between two subjects

38. pun- a joke with words that sound alike but have different meanings

39. foreshadow- an advance hint of what is to come later

40. personification- something not human which is given human characteristics

41. alliteration- two or more words in a line which share the same beginning sound

42. parallelism- sentence structure that is grammatically the same and shows related ideas

C. Character Identification: Match the speaker to the quotation.

43. “A trade sir which is indeed a mender of bad soles.” Soothsayer

Cobbler

44. “Disrobe the images bedecked with ceremonies.” Flavius Brutus

45. “Beware the ides of March.” Soothsayer Cassius

46. “I love the name of honor more than I fear death.” Brutus Cobbler

47. “Why man he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus” Flavius

Cassius 48. “Let me have men about me who are fat.” Caesar Portia

49. “I will hie and bestow these papers as you bade me.” Cinna Decius

50. “Unicorns may be betrayed with trees, Lucius

Lions with foils, and men with flatterers” Brutus

51. “The taper burneth in your closet,sir, Cinna

Searching the window for flint, I found this paper.” Cassius

52. “Dwell I but in the suburbs of your good pleasure? Caesar

If it be no more, I am your harlot, not your wife.” Soothsayer

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53. “You shall not stir out of your house today.” Calpurnia Antony

54. “Caesar, Beware of Brutus, take heed of Cassius...” Artemidorus Calpurnia

55. “Is there no voice to sound for my banished brother?” Metellus Caesar

56. “Et tu, Brute?” Caesar Metellus

57. “That is all I seek; that I may speak in his funeral.” Antony Artemidorus

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D. SAT Vocabulary from Julius Caesar-

58. spurn- to reject of refuse with hostility

59. countenance- to condone or to give approval or

60. affable- friendly, courteous, amiable

61. whets- To stimulate; to sharpen by grinding

62. unassailable- courage or spirit 63. confound- To cause one to become confused

64. entreaty- a plea, an earnest request

65. mutinous- Rebellious, unruly

66. prodigious- extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or

degree; great in size, enormous

67. portent- A sign or forewarning