10th grade literature/ composition - Unit Test on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
De Guire
1. The main character in a tragedy is known as the: tragic hero
2. What are the qualities of a tragic hero? 1) high rank 2) extraordinary quality 3) tragic flaw
3. The italicized instructions for performance that suggests the use of props, lighting, scenes, sound effects, and costumes are called: stage
directions
4. How is the play divided? Acts, scenes, lines
5. In Act One, what does Antony offer Caesar three times? crown
6. The Ides of March occurs on the: 15th
7. In Act One, the characters are at the feast of Lupercal
8. What is the effect of the terrible storm in Scene 3? Foreshadows impending doom and future events
9. Who is definitely part of the conspiracy against Caesar? Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Decius, Metullus
10. The presence of the Soothsayer and what he says to Caesar in Act One is an example of what literary device? foreshadowing
11. Why did Brutus’s servant Lucius NOT recognize the conspirators when they arrived at Brutus’s house? The wore hoods/faces were covered
12. In Act Two, what is Calpurnia’s dream and what effect does it have? Caesar’s statue bleeding blood/scares Calpurnia
13. Cassius tries to persuade Brutus to turn against Caesar by telling him what? Caesar is only human and he is ambitious
14. What things does Cassius tell Brutus that are critical of Caesar? /almost drowned/ was sick and cried
15. What is dramatic irony? Give me an example in the play. Audience knows something the characters don’t. We know Caesar will die.
16. Why does Portia beg Brutus to tell her what is bothering him? She is worthy and will keep his secret
17. Why do Brutus and the other conspirators go to Caesar’s house? To persuade him to come to the Senate.
Good friends, go in and taste some wine with me,
And we (like friends) will straightway go together [to the Capitol].
Julius Caesar, 2.2
18. In the above passage, Julius Caesar is speaking to Brutus, Cassius, and the other conspirators. Caesar’s use of the word friends and his request
that these men accompany him to the Capitol is an example of what literary device? irony
19. Decius persuades Caesar to come to the Senate by using flatterer.
20. In Act Three, why is Artemidorus so eager to give Caesar the letter he has written? It tells of his impending death.
21. Why does Caesar call out, “Et tu, Brute?” as Brutus stabs him? Because Brutus was his friend.
Pardon me, Julius! O world, the heart of thee!
How like a deer, stricken by many princes,
Dost thou here lie!
22. The above quote from Act Three uses what literary device? Simile
23. What request does Antony make of the conspirators after Caesar’s assassination? To give the funeral speech
24. During the funeral oration Antony uses which rhetorical devices? Repetition, Restatement, Ethnic Appeal
25. According to Brutus, what flaw of Caesar’s caused Brutus to kill Caesar? Ambitition
26. Brutus says that Portia killed herself because she ate fire
27. During the night before the battle takes place, Brutus sees Caesar’s ghost
28. The final battle takes place on the fields of: Philipi
29. Before the battle, 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.
-- III.iii.216-219
What does Brutus mean? Success depends on the timing
30. On the day of battle what birds replace the eagles that had previously accompanied Cassius’s army? Kites, buzzards
31. At the end of the play, both Antony and Octavian talk about whom? What do they say? Brutus – noblest Roman of all
32. Who is the real tragic hero of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar? Brutus
33. What are themes in the play? Ambition will kill you. People are fickle. Beware flattery. Others?
34. Define Soliloquy a speech given by a character with no other characters on stage to show his inner feelings
35. Who said these?
A) Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. Caesar
D) Now be a freeman, and with this sword,
That ran through Caear’s bowels, search this bosom
B) Friends, Romans, countrymen
And when my face is covered, as ‘tis now,
Lend me your ears.
Guide thou the sword. Cassius
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Antony
E) What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?
C) Beware the Ides of March.
You shall not stir out of your house today. Calpurnia
Soothsayer
F) Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome
more.
As he was ambitious, I slew him. Brutus
36.
Define the following:
visage
rash
malice
bestow
37.
38.
39.
40.
rhetoric
taper
apparition
orator
apostrophe
torrent
What is the Globe Theater and why is it important?
Who said, “Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of Earth?” To whom was he talking and why?
Summarize the famous funeral speech given by Antony in three complete sentences.
Explain how the “fickleness of man” is one of the themes of this play?