1. What is the purpose in the play’s action of the Soothsayer’s warning, the strange sightings and the earthquake in Rome, and Calpurnia’s dream?
The Elizabethan audience and Roman characters recognize these events as unearthly omens of dire acts.
The conspirators hope that these events will frighten Caesar.
Caesar plans these events to prove his supernatural abilities.
The players use these events to amuse the audience.
2. What prevents Caesar, who knows that he may be in danger, from heeding the warnings of others about the threats to his life?
He is sluggish and easily misled.
He is distracted by his drive to gain more power.
He has already commanded Brutus to stop associating with the conspirators.
He trusts Cassius and Brutus above other men.
3. What motivates Brutus to advise Cassius and the others to go to Philippi and attack Antony and Octavius’s armies?
his fear of seeing Caesar’s ghost at Sardis
the treacherous plan he will carry out against Cassius at Philippi
his desire to unmask Cassius as a cowardly leader who refuses to lead his troops into battle
his unwise belief that his army will otherwise be overrun at Sardis
4. What event resolves the conflict of who will lead Rome in the future?
Brutus’s moving speech at Caesar’s funeral
Antony’s decision to face the conspirators’ armies at Sardis
Brutus and Cassius’s defeat at Philippi
Brutus’s complaint that Cassius’s goals have become selfish and corrupt
5. Antony says that Brutus is the noblest Roman of them all because (Points : 3)
of the conspirators, Brutus alone acted for the good of Rome rather than for personal gain.
Brutus’s family is well born and wealthy.
Brutus and Antony were once close friends.
Antony sarcastically insults Brutus, whom he considers a traitor.

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