Abeka Grade 10 World Literature Test 10

Front 1

Who was Portia's father?

Back 1

Cato

Front 2

Who was the first person to stab Caesar?

Back 2

Casca

Front 3

Cicero could speak what foreign language well?

Back 3

Greek

Front 4

Brutus was a ____.

Back 4

Stoic

Front 5

Cassius was an ____.

Back 5

Epicurean

Front 6

Marullus and Flavius were ____.

Back 6

tribunes

Front 7

When did Shakespeare die?

Back 7

1616

Front 8

When was Shakespeare born?

Back 8

1564

Front 9

How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Back 9

154

Front 10

Where did the battle in Act 5 take place?

Back 10

Philippi

Front 11

Caesar was told to "beware the ides" of which month?

Back 11

March

Front 12

What time of the day were plays usually performed in Elizabethan theaters?

Back 12

afternoon

Front 13

In which theater were many of Shakespeare's plays performed by his own acting company?

Back 13

Globe

Front 14

"...you yourself

Are much condemned to have an itching palm."

Back 14

Cassius

Front 15

"...for he is given

To sports, to wildness, and much company."

Back 15

Antony

Front 16

"For he will never follow anything

That other men begin."

Back 16

Cicero

Front 17

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

Back 17

Brutus

Front 18

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

Back 18

Mark Antony

Front 19

"Even so great men great losses should endure."

Back 19

Messala

Front 20

"Not that I have loved Caesar left, but that I have loved Rome more."

Back 20

Brutus

Front 21

"This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there I shall end."

Back 21

Cassius

Front 22

"Between the acting of a dreadful thing

And the first motion, all the interim is

Like a phantasm, or a hideous dream."

Back 22

Brutus

Front 23

"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

Back 23

Caesar

Front 24

convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy

Back 24

Cassius

Front 25

offered Caesar a crown

Back 25

Mark Antony

Front 26

Caesar's nephew and heir

Back 26

Octavius

Front 27

servant to Cassius

Back 27

Pindarus

Front 28

chosen to lead Caesar to the Senate

Back 28

Decius Brutus

Front 29

Brutus's wife

Back 29

Portia

Front 30

poet mistaken for a conspirator

Back 30

Cinna

Front 31

servant to Brutus

Back 31

Lucius

Front 32

Caesar's wife

Back 32

Calpurnia

Front 33

tried to warn Caesar of the conspiracy

Back 33

Artimedorus