| What character says “Caesar, now be still: I’d kill’d not thee with half so good a will”? | Brutus |
| Who is Brutus’s wife? | Portia |
| Who is Caesar’s adopted son and heir? | Octavius |
| What character says, “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war”? | Antony |
| Which character suffers from ominous dreams? | Calpurnia |
| Who holds the sword for Brutus to kill himself? | Strato |
| Who are the members of the second triumvirate? | Octavius, Mark Antony, Lepidus |
| Which character says “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once”? | Caesar |
| Which character says, “Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he is grown so great”? | Cassius |
| Who is Julius Caesar’s most loyal follower? | Antony |
| According to the play, how many times is Julius Caesar stabbed? | 33 wounds |
| What is the Soothsayer’s warning? | Beware the Ides of March |
| The feast of Lupercal is a celebration of what? | Fertility |
| Brutus is visited by a ghost of whom? | Caesar |
| Which characters die in the play? | 100 senators, Cicero, Portia, Caesar, Cassius, Brutus, Titinius, Cinna the poet |
| Aside from having “the falling sickness,” in what other way is Caesar physically challenged? | He was deaf in his left ear. |
| Which character has a birthday in the play? | Cassius |
| Who spares Antony’s Life? | Brutus |
| Octavius and Antony form a triumvirate with whom? | Lepidus |
| Who says that the conspirators need no oath because they are bound by their cause and not by empty words? | Brutus |
| Why does Brutus view Caesar’s assassination as necessary? | His ambition to take over Rome when he is crowned as King |
| Name one of Caesar’s fatal flaws. | Ambition, arrogance, sense of mortality, naive/oblivious |
| What crime or misdeed does Brutus charge Cassius with in Act 4? | Bribes |
| The play begins with a celebration of what? | Caesar’s triumph |
| Describe Cassius’s motivation. | To take Caesar away from the path of becoming dictator |
Julius Caesar (Review)
April 16, 2020