Final Test Review (Study Guide)

Question 1

Aside:

Answer 1

remark made to the audience or to one character the other characters on stage do not hear

Question 2

tragedy:

Answer 2

play that ends unhappily, usually deals with serious universal themes

Question 3

tragic hero

Answer 3

protagonist, noble but has tragic flaw that leads to tragic end

Question 4

Type of figurative language:
the cobbler’s words “I am a mender of bad soles”

Answer 4

pun

Question 5

Type of figurative language:
Brutus says “O conspiracy, sham’st thou to show dang’rous brow by nught, when evils are most free? O, then by day, where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough to mask thy monstrous visage?”

Answer 5

personification

Question 6

What does Caesar’s ghost foreshadow?

Answer 6

Brutus’s death

Question 7

Act 1 is what part of the plot in Shakespeare’s tragedy?

Answer 7

exposition

Question 8

What is the main event of the exposition?

Answer 8

fear of Caesar becoming too powerful and Soothsayer “beware ides of March”

Question 9

What is the main event of rising action?

Answer 9

foramtion of conspiracy (Brutus joins), Caesar is killed

Question 10

what is the climax (occurs in act 3, is in the middle, height of action, turning point)

Answer 10

Antony’s funeral speech

Question 11

What is the main event of falling action?

Answer 11

war

Question 12

What is the main event of the resolution?

Answer 12

Octavius is the new ruler, war ends

Question 13

What are the traits of a tragic charcter?

Answer 13

noble, but has a tragic flaw that leads to downfall

Question 14

What is brutus’s tragic flaw

Answer 14

too naive (too trusting, easily manipulated) and misplaced idealism

Question 15

What is Caesar’s tragic flaw?

Answer 15

overconfidence, physical weakness

Question 16

Why is the Julius Caesar considered a tragedy?

Answer 16

Brutus is driven by his tragic flaw leading to downfall

Question 17

Why is Cassius not the tragic hero?

Answer 17

he is not noble, more like a villan

Question 18

What tragic quality does this quote reveal about Brutus: “My heart doth joy that yet in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me.”?

Answer 18

he is too trusting, and believes he can kill caesar for the good of Rome without trouble

Question 19

What is one quote describing Caesar that reveals his tragic flaws?

Answer 19

“… he was ambitious, I slew him”

Question 20

What is Brutus deciding when he gives a soliloquy in his orchard?

Answer 20

whether to join the conspiracy

Question 21

What is Brutus’s motivation for joining the conspiracy?

Answer 21

Caesar’s ambition will oppress the people, he will become a dictator/tyrannt

Question 22

What is Brutus deciding when he says: “ And therefore think him a serpent’s egg, which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell.”

Answer 22

wheter to join the conspiracy

Question 23

Why does Portia give herself a wound in the thigh?

Answer 23

to prove to Brutus she is straong enough to handle anything

Question 24

Why did Brutus say “Render me worthy of this noble wife?”

Answer 24

He repects and loves Portia because she is so concerned about him, doens’t think he deserves her

Question 25

Why does Calpurnia ask Caesar not to go to the Senate?

Answer 25

she had a bad dream, people were bathing in Caesar's blood

Question 26

What finally convinces Caesar to go to the Senate

Answer 26

Decius convinces him (Will look like a fool, dream was actually a good sign)

Question 27

What does the note say that Artemidorus want to give Caesar?

Answer 27

lists all the conspirators, warns Caesar

Question 28

What does Portia say at the end of Act 2 to show she suspects the conspirators are up to something ans she can do nothing to stop them?

Answer 28

I have a man's mind but a woman's might

Question 29

What is ironic about the timing of Caesar's murder?

Answer 29

Caesar says he will not be moved the moment before he is going to be killed

Question 30

What is Caesar's attitude as the conspirators surrond him to make a petition?

Answer 30

he is constant, unshakeable

Question 31

How are Antony;s ture feelings about the conspirators first revealed?

Answer 31

He convinces the crowd that the conspirators were bad by his funeral speech

Question 32

Anotony wants to speack at Caesar's funeral, what are the reactions of Brutus and Cassius?

Answer 32

Cassius says no, Brutus gives him critera to speak (must speak after him, don't blame conspirators)

Question 33

What rdoes Brutus give as the reson he killed Caesar in his speech

Answer 33

He was too ambitous, for the good of Rome

Question 34

What are the props Anotony uses to persuade the crowd of plebians?

Answer 34

Caesar's will, his bloody cloak

Question 35

How does Antony show the conspirators were not honorable in his funeral speech

Answer 35

gives reasons why Caesar was no ambitious (refused crown 3 times, gave citizens money and parks), and sarcastically says they are honorable men

Question 36

Whose speech finally wins over the crowd and why

Answer 36

Antony's because he questions what Brutus said in his speech, he had real emotion

Question 37

The mob wants to kill Cinna the Poet, what does this show about the mob?

Answer 37

thye are violent, don't care who they kill to get revenge for Caesar's death

Question 38

Who is Caesar's official heir?

Answer 38

Octavius

Question 39

Who are the members of the triumvirate?

Answer 39

Octavius, Antony, LEpidus

Question 40

What is Brutus relizing at the beginning of act 4?

Answer 40

he made a mistake killing Caesar

Question 41

Why are Brutus and Cassius fighting?

Answer 41

Brutus accusses Cassius of taking bribes, goes back and forth, arguing over money

Question 42

Why did Portia commit suicide?

Answer 42

stressed about Brutus, worried

Question 43

What news does MEssala bring?

Answer 43

Portia died from swallowing hot coals

Question 44

Who wins the disagreement about battle strategy between Brutus and Cassius?

Answer 44

Brutus

Question 45

What does Caesar's ghost say

Answer 45

I will see you at Philippi

Question 46

What is Cassius's fatal mistake?

Answer 46

Believes false information and commits suicide

Question 47

What is ironic about the date Cassius dies?

Answer 47

it is his birthday

Question 48

Why does Brutus not want to be captured and taken to Rome?

Answer 48

better to die with honor , doesn't wnat to be humiliated

Question 49

How does Brutus know "His hour is come" to die

Answer 49

Caesar;s ghost appears to him a 2nd time

Question 50

How does Brutus die?

Answer 50

suicude, falls on his own sword

Question 51

Who said: "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth/that I am meek and gentle with these butchers."

Answer 51

Antony

Question 52

Who said: "Beware of the Ides of March."

Answer 52

Soothsayer

Question 53

Who said: "Caesar, now be still; I killed thee with half so good a will."

Answer 53

Brutus

Question 54

Who said: "Cowards die many times before their deaths/The valiant never taste death but once."

Answer 54

Caesar

Question 55

Who said: "This was the greatest Roman of them all/All the conspirators save only he/did that they in envy of great Caesar."

Answer 55

Antony

Question 56

Who said: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesasr, not to praise him."

Answer 56

Antony

Question 57

Who siad: " SO call the field to rest, and let's away/To part the glories of this happy day."

Answer 57

Octavius

Question 58

What did Caesar say before he died?

Answer 58

Et tu, Brute?

Question 59

Who said: "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious/And Brutus is an honorable man."

Answer 59

Antony

Question 60

Who said: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?"

Answer 60

Brutus

Question 61

Who is the tragic hero in Julius Caesar? List 3 characteristics of a tragic hero and explain with evidence from the play, how your character fulfills each of these characteristics

Answer 61

Brutus (noble but has tragic flaw that leads to downfall) Does everything for good of Rome, too naive, commits suicide