Julius Caesar Study Guide

Act Three

1. What group accompanied Caesar to the Capitol?

 

2. What two people have gathered to watch the procession and represent a bad omen?

 

3. Who whispers "good luck" to Cassius?

 

4. How does Cassius interpret it?

 

5. Who calms Cassius?

 

6. Who has the task of getting Antony out of the way?

 

7. Who decided which conspirator would stab Caesar first?

 

8. Which character did stab Caesar first?

 

9. What words does Caesar utter as he realizes Brutus is a conspirator, also?

 

10. What do Brutus and Cassius advise Publius to do and why?

 

11. According to Brutus, who should bear the consequences of their actions?

 

12. Where does Caesar die?

 

13. Whose servant arrives?

 

14. Why? (What message did he bring?)

 

15. How does Brutus actually feel about Antony?

 

16. What request does Antony make at Caesar’s funeral?

 

17. What is Brutus’s reply?

 

18. Alone with the body, Antony delivers a soliloquy. Its meaning is what?

 

19. Whose servant arrives?

 

20. At first, Antony wants to send him back to his master to tell him what has happened, but on second thought, what does he decide to do?

 

21. Who moves Caesar’s body?

 

22. What relationship was Octavious to Caesar?

 

23. Who is made to appear most dangerous to Brutus and Cassius’s plan?

 

24. In scene 2, why does Brutus divide the crowd?

 

25. According to Brutus, what flaw of Caesar’s caused him to kill him?

 

26. How did the crowd receive Brutus’s words?

 

27. What does Brutus do while Antony addresses the crowd?

 

28. What is Antony’s purpose in his speech?

 

29. The crowd asks Antony to do what?

 

30. Around Caesar’s body, how does Antony incite the crowd?

 

31. Why did the people pile up benches, tables, and stalls?

 

32. What message does the servant bring?

 

33. In scene 3, what was Cinna’s occupation?

 

34. What is Cinna’s reply to his marital status?

 

35. How is his intended wit viewed by the crowd?

 

36. When Cinna entered this scene, what was he thinking about?

 

37. What other character had an ominous dream, also?

Julius Caesar

Act Three Quotations

1. "I am as unchanging as the North Star,

Whose completely fixed and immovable nature

Is unmatched by any other star in the heavens."

2. "And thou also, Brutus?"

3. "Stoop, Romans, stoop

And let us bathe out hands in Caesar’s blood

Up to the elbows, and smear our swords with it."

4. "Mark Antony shall not love the dead Caesar

As will as the living Brutus"

5. "O mighty Caesar, do you know lie so low?

Are all your conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils of war,

Shrunk to such a little size?"

6. "Only be patient until we have quieted down

the Roman people, who are new beside themselves with fear,

and then we will explain to you the reason

why I, who loved Caesar even when I struck him,

have acted in this way."

7. "I am friends with you all and love you all,

With this hope, that you shall give me reasons

Why and how Caesar was dangerous."

8. "O pardon me, you bleeding piece of moral earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers."

9. Romans, countrymen, and dear friends: hear me for the sake of my cause, and be

Silent that you may hear. Believe me for the sake of my honor, and

Respect my honor that you may believe. Judge me in your

Widow, and awaken your good sense that you may judge better.

If there is anyone in this crown, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to

Him I say that Brutus’s love of Caesar was no less than his.

If then

That friend wants to know why Brutus rose up against

Caesar, this is my

Answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Would you rather that Caesar were living and you all die

As slaves, than that

Caesar were dead so that you all might live as free men?

10. "Caesar’s virtues

Shall be crowned in Brutus."

11. "Friends, Romans, countrymen: listen to me.

I come to bury Caesar’s body, not to make a speech praising him.

The evil men do is remembered after they’re dead,

But the good is often buried with their bones.

Thus let it be with Caesar."

12. "I think there is much good sense in what he is saying."

13. "Be patient, gentle friends; I must not read it.

It is not prayer that you should know how much Caesar loved you."

14. "I fear that I wrong the honorable men

Whose daggers have stabbed Caesar. I really fear it."

15. "Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s best friend.

Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him (and how costly it was to Caesar to have such a friend)"

16. "Good friends, sweet friends, don’t let me stir you up."

17. "But if I were Brutus

and Brutus were Antony, then there would be an Antony

who would know how to enrage your spirits, and who could put a tongue

in every wound of Caesar that would speak so movingly that

the very stones of Rome would rise up and mutiny."