Julius Caesar Study Guide

Act Four

 

  1. Where does scene one take place?

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  2. Name the characters having a meeting.

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  3. What are they trying to decide?

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  4. What relationship is Publius to Mark Antony?

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  5. What does Antony tell Octavius his true feelings are about Lepidus after Lepidus leaves them?

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  6. What beast of burden does Antony compare Lepidus to?

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  7. With what other characters, according to Antony, are armies being drawn together?

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  8. How does Octavius respond to Antony’s wishes?

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  9. Where does scene two take place?

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  10. According to Lucilius, how was he received by Cassius?

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  11. What is the purpose of Cassius baring his breast to Brutus?

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  12. Do the two reconcile?

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  13. Who is creating the disturbance at the door?

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  14. For what reason?

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  15. Who is guarding the door and refuses to admit him?

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  16. What startling news does Brutus give to Cassius?

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  17. How did this event occur?

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  18. What news do Titinius and Messala bring?

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  19. What are the positions of the people who have been killed?

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  20. With what type of strength did Brutus accept the news?

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  21. With what suggestion of Brutus’s does Cassius disagree?

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  22. Why does Cassius disagree?

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  23. What counter argument does Brutus put forth?

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  24. Which character gives in to the other?

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  25. What does Lucius do for Brutus before he sleeps?

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  26. Why does Brutus apologize to Lucius?

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  27. What appears to Brutus?

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  28. What does it tell Brutus?

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  29. Immediately afterward, Brutus sends Varro and Claudius to tell Cassius what?

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  30. Brutus has a troubled mind caused by what two occurrences?

 

 

Julius Caesar

Act Four Quotations

 

1. "Let us do so, because, like the bear in a bearbaiting, we are chained to the stake

and set upon by many enemies.

And some of those who smile are us are, I fear, plotting

Countless harms against us."

 

2. "You have described

a warm friend cooling. Always not, Lucilius,

that when love begins to weaken and diminish,

it insists on a forced politeness."

 

3. "I had rather be a dog and howl at the moon

than that kind of Roman."

 

4. "Brutus, don’t taunt me –

I won’t permit it. You forget your own dignity

To close in on my like this. I myself and a soldier,

More experienced in practical matters, better able than you

To manage things."

 

5. "You do me wrong in every way; you really wrong me, Brutus.

I said a more experiences soldier, not a better.

Did I say ‘better’?"

 

6. "When Caesar was alive, he wouldn’t dare to exasperate me like this."

 

7. "Do not take my love too much for granted;

I may do something that I shall be sorry for."

 

8. "Brutus has broken my heart

A friend should tolerate his friend’s weaknesses,

But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

 

9. "Strike as you did at Caesar, because I know,

when you hated him worst, you loved him better

than you ever loved Cassius."

 

10. "Speak no more of Portia. Give me a bowl of wine.

In this drink I bury all the unkindness of our quarrel, Cassius."

 

11. "In just this way should great men endure great losses."

 

12. "There is a tide in human affairs,

which, taken at its highest point, leads on to good fortune;

not taken, all the voyage of their life

is confined by a shallow water and other miseries."

 

13. "Are you any thing?

Are you some god, some angel, or some devil,

That turns my blood cold and makes my hair stand on end?

Speak to me and tell me what you are."

 

  1. "To tell you that you shall see me at Philippi."