Julius Caesar Quiz

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Choose the best answer from the available options. Circle your answer.

Act 1
1. As the play opens, the commoners are celebrating a great victory by Caesar. Whom
did Caesar defeat?
a) Brutus
b) Pompey
c) Casca

2. The play opens on the feast of ________________.

a) Easter
b) Mid-summer
c) Lupercalia

3. Name Caesar's wife.

a) Calpurnia
b) Cleopatra
c) Portia

4. Caesar asks Antony to touch his wife as he runs in the Lupercal races. This is to cure
her ___________.
a) infertility
b) cancer
c) verrucas

5. Who warns Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March”?

a) Antony
b) Calpurnia
c) A soothsayer

6. The Ides of March means _________________________.

a) 15th February
b) 15th March
c) 15th July

7. Which character says “When Caesar says 'Do this', it is perform'd”?

a) Brutus
b) Antony
c) Caesar

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8. There is a lot of activity off-stage. Who tells Brutus and Cassius about this activity
which involved Caesar and the crowd?
a) A soothsayer
b) Casca
c) Antony

9. Caesar is offered something three times. He refuses it on each occasion. What is it?
a) A crown
b) A statue
c) A sword

10. What health condition afflicts Caesar?

a) Asthma
b) Epilepsy
c) Eczema

11. Whom does Caesar describe as having a “lean and hungry look”?
a) Brutus
b) Cassius
c) Casca

12. Unusual weather is the backdrop to the final scene in this act. What type of weather
is described?
a) Intense heat
b) Thunder and lightning
c) A hurricane

13. People in Rome are terrified by unusual sights in the streets. What is NOT seen
there?
a) A slave holding up his hand all in flames
b) A lion walking quietly past the Capitol
c) Ravens and crows diving at crowds in the forum

14. Cassius starts organising a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Whom does he

particularly want to join the plot?
a) Antony
b) Brutus
c) Casca

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Solution

Act 1 36. a
1. b 37. b
2. c 38. c
3. a 39. c
4. a 40. a
5. c 41. b
6. b 42. c
7. b 43. a
8. b 44. c
9. a 45. a
10. b 46. c
11. b Act 4
12. b 47. a
13. c 48. c
14. b 49. b
Act 2 50. c
15. b 51. a
16. a 52. a
17. a 53. c
18. c 54. a
19. c 55. c
20. b 56. c
21. c Act 5
22. a 57. c
23. c 58. a
24. b 59. b
25. b 60. a
Act 3 61. a
26. b 62. b
27. b 63. b
28. c 64. a
29. a 65. c
30. c 66. b
31. c 67. a
32. c 68. a
33. a 69. c
34. a 70. a
35. a

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