Act III - Scene II The Forum Quiz — The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

What reason does Brutus give for assassinating Caesar?

• Caesar refused to share power with the Senate
• Caesar's ambition would have enslaved all Romans
• Caesar planned to exile Brutus and his allies
• Caesar had become physically violent toward citizens

In what literary form does Brutus deliver his funeral speech?

• Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter)
• Rhyming couplets
• Prose
• Sonnet form

What does the crowd ironically shout after Brutus's speech?

• 'Banish the tyrant!'
• 'Let him be Caesar!'
• 'Crown Mark Antony!'
• 'Restore the Republic!'

Which of the following is NOT evidence Antony cites against Caesar's ambition?

• Caesar wept when the poor cried
• Caesar thrice refused the crown at the Lupercal
• Caesar's ransoms filled the general coffers
• Caesar freed all political prisoners in Rome

What does Caesar's will leave to the citizens of Rome?

• Fifty gold coins and a feast day
• Seventy-five drachmas and his private gardens
• One hundred denarii and seats in the Senate
• His entire estate and all military equipment

What does Antony call Brutus's stab wound?

• 'The cruelest stroke of fate'
• 'The most unkindest cut of all'
• 'The wound that killed the Republic'
• 'The thrust of base ingratitude'

Who arrives in Rome at the end of the scene?

• Pompey's forces from abroad
• Cicero with a contingent of senators
• Octavius, accompanied by Lepidus
• Brutus's wife Portia with a message

What rhetorical device is primarily at work in Antony's repeated phrase 'Brutus is an honorable man'?

• Hyperbole
• Verbal irony
• Simile
• Alliteration

Which of these events actually happened in this chapter?

What does the word 'censure' mean as used in Brutus's line 'Censure me in your wisdom'?

• To formally condemn or punish
• To judge or evaluate
• To praise publicly
• To silence or suppress

What does 'rent' mean in the line 'See what a rent the envious Casca made'?

• A payment owed for use of property
• A loud noise or outcry
• A tear or rip in fabric
• A formal accusation

What does 'interred' mean in 'The good is oft interred with their bones'?

• Celebrated and remembered
• Written down in records
• Buried in the ground
• Passed on to heirs