Act 5

Question 1

What plot part is Act 5?

Answer 1

resolution

Question 2

What is significant about the day of battle for Cassius?

Answer 2

It is his birthday

Question 3

True or false– in ancient Rome suicide was considered an honorable action.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false– Brutus believed to kill oneself out of fear for the future was honorable.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Brutus believed to kill oneself out of fear for the future was _____ & _____

Answer 5

cowardly and vile

Question 6

Brutus said he would never to to Rome _____

Answer 6

bound (as a captive)

Question 7

What does Cassius send Tintinius to do?

Answer 7

check to see whose side the approaching soldiers are on

Question 8

What does Pindarus tell Cassius he sees?

Answer 8

Tintinius being captured by enemy troops.

Question 9

Why does Cassius kill himself?

Answer 9

He believes Tintinius is captured and that Brutus’s forces have lost.

Question 10

In reality, what does Tintinius learn from the approaching troops?

Answer 10

That Brutus and his troops have been victorious.

Question 11

What does Tintinius do when Messala goes to inform Brutus of Cassius’ death?

Answer 11

Kills himself with Cassius’s sword.

Question 12

How does Cassius’s death help Pindarus?

Answer 12

Makes him a free man

Question 13

What happens to Lucilius?

Answer 13

Taken prisoner

Question 14

What does Brutus ask Clitus, Dardanius, and Voluminus to do?

Answer 14

Kill him

Question 15

How does Brutus die?

Answer 15

He runs into his sword while Strato holds it.

Question 16

What are Brutus’s last words?

Answer 16

Caesar, now be still./ I killed not thee with half so good a will.

Question 17

According to Antony, why is Brutus better than the other conspirators?

Answer 17

He was only motivated by honor and good intentions.

Question 18

How does Octavius demand they treat Brutus’s body?

Answer 18

With respect and rites of burial.