Julius Caesar True/False

Cassius wants to meet Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus' army at Philippi.

False

Caesar's ghost tells Brutus that he will see him at Phillipi.

True

Caesar is offered the crown 2 times

False - 3 times

Calphurnia cries out in her sleep that Caesar will be murdered.

True

Brutus wants to swear an oath with the conspirators

False-He thinks that the honesty of the cause is enough and that they should not have to act based on a promise to each other.

Other people besides the conspirators know about the plan to kill Caesar

True

Antony is a witness when Caesar is killed

False-Trebonius had led Antony away before the assassination was carried out.

Caesar's ghost appears twice to Brutus

True

The play opens on the ides of march on the feast of Lupercal

False

Marc Antony declars Cassius is the noblest Roman of them all

False-He speaks of Brutus when he says this at the play's end.

Brutus decides to kill Caesar because he has proof that Caesar's power is too great.

False- He wishes to "think him as a serpent's egg" and kill him "in the shell" before he has a chance to "hatch."

Artemedorus warned Caesar to beware the ides of March

False- It was the soothsayer. Artemedorus tried to warn Caesar in a letter.

The conspirators surround Caesar at the senate house under the pretense of petitioning Caesar to end the exile of Metellius Cimber's brother

True

Portia is more persuasive to her husband than Calphurnia is to hers.

True

Caesar goes to the senate the day of the murder believing he will be offered the crown

True

Cassius says the weather on the night before the assassination is a sign of the state of the government and alludes that it foretells what things will be like if Caesar will become king

True

Brutus urges the conspirators to bathe their hands in Caesar's blood and walk to the forum proclaiming peace, freedom and liberty

True

Cassius states that future generations will remember, retell, and repeat the actions of the conspirators

True

Cassius says he would rather kill himself than to live under Caesar's rule.

True

Caesar compares himself to the northern star

True

Antony never misleads the conspirators about his feelings toward them.

False-He pretends to love them and to want to hear their explanation for the assassination. He promises to not speak badly of them to the people.

Antony says he will support the conspirators if they can satisfy him that Caesar deserved death

True

In his funeral speach, Antony calls the conspirators butchers

False- This happens when he is alone with Caesar's body in the senate house.

Brutus' funeral speech is in common verse; Antony's is in prose (poetry).

True

In his funeral speech, Brutus finds nothing good to say about Caesar, calling him a tyrant who has squandered Rome's wealth.

False

The plebians or commoners in the play are fickle in their loyalty, having supported Pompey, then Caesar, then Brutus, then Antony.

True

The tribunes in the first scene, Flavius and Marullus, are put to silence for tearing down banners that are put up in honor of Caesar.

True

Caesar is depicted as a reasonable, generous, physically fit person, a model of what a king ought to be.

False

Brutus regards Antony as shallow, a lover of games, sports, and parties.

True

The night before the ides, Calphurnia dreams Caesar is made king by the senate.

False- She dreams that Caesar is murdered.

On the morning of the ides of march, Caesar changes his mind twice about going to the senate.

True

Caesar agrees to go to the senate after Decius Brutus implies that he might be laughed at and that people will think him a coward if he does not.

True

Some of the commoners want to make Brutus king after they hear his speech.

True

Casca who reports the crowds attempt to present Caesar with the crown is depicted as the wisest and most perceptive of the conspirators

False

Cassius and Caesar will die by the same sword

True

Brutus and Cassius watch as Caesar is offered the crown 3 times.

False- They get the report from Casca.

Brutus thinks that Cicero and Antony should be killed along with Caesar.

False- He doesn't want the public to think them "too bloody."

Portia has a bad dream and asks Caesar not to go to the senate.

False- It is Calphurnia who requests this of her husband.

Antony addresses the people first at Caesar's funeral.

False- Brutus wants to go first to explain the motives of the assassination.

Brutus scolds Cassius for accepting bribes to support their war effort.

True

Since he killed himself, Brutus will be denied a burial with full honors.

False- Antony calls him "noble" and Octavius wants to bury Brutus with "respect and rites of burial."

Portia, Calphurnia, Cassius, and Brutus all killed themselves in this play.

False- Calphurnia did not.

Marullus and Flavius believe Caesar will be a great ruler.

False- They are angry with the people who have so soon forgotten Pompey.

Cassius is the first to stab Caesar.

False- Casca is.