General - Caesar Part II ( Final Caesar Quiz ) - English I

On April 10, 2025

Not that I loved Caesar less, but I loved Rome more: exemplifies… (speaker)

Antithesis

Brutus

How many senators have been put to death by Antony/Octavius/Lepidus?

Between 70 and 100

Who is the first victim of the riled-up mob after the funeral speeches?

Cinna the Poet

Who are the more experienced generals?

Cassius and Antony

(Brutus and Octavius are inexperienced)

Thou shalt see me at Philippi is./.

an omen

Choler corresponds to…

Irritability and testiness

Who here is so vile that will not love his country? Is an example of…

Rhetorical question

Pathos

Why does Shakespeare include another poet after Cassius and Brutus’s “catfight” in the tent?

Comic relief

Cassius and Brutus’s disagreements

• Whether to stay in Sardis or march to Philippi

• Whether to let Antony speak at the funeral of Caesar

• Whether Lucius Pella should be disciplined

• Brutus accuses Cassius of taking bribes and denying him money (bickering)

You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse, is an example of…

Logos

Antony and Octavius’s disagreements

• Which army will flank left and which right

The first time we see the 2nd Triumvirate, they are…

At Caesar’s house, drawing up proscriptions

Elements revealing Antony’s true intentions after Caesar’s death

• When he calls Lepidus an “ass”

• When he suggest skimming some money off the top of the 75 drachmas

• When he prophesies civil war and “havoc” in Italy in his soliloquy

He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this seem… ambitious?

• Evokes Logos

• Rhetorical question

• Spoken by Antony

True aspects of the Battle of Philippi

• Took place on a large plain

• Took place in 42 BCE

• Took place in the middle of a major drought

Choleric

Easily enraged, testiness

What are the 4 humors?

Melancholic, choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine

Antony, Octavius, Lepidus “proscriptions”

Who should die to “secure” their rule

Antony says Publius, his sister’s son can be killed

Lepidus says his brother may die

Antithesis

two opposing ideas or concepts put next to each other in order to highlight the “obvious” choice

Parallelism

using a phrase in a repetitive manner to drive a point home

Poets

Cinna the Poet is killed; reason is lost

Poet runs in for comic relief in the midst of Cassius and Brutus’s argument

Omens

• Caesar’s ghost

• Cassius’s death (It’s “meant toe be,” death on birthday)

• Weird bird behavior

  • Birds eating out of the hands of the soldiers

  • Birds who are typically prey, eyeing down the people

Cassius’s tragic misunderstanding

Killing himself after hearing of Titinius’s (not real) death