Julius Caesar Study Guide

Act Five

 

  1. Where does scene one take place?

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  2. Why does Octavius tell Antony he feels the conspirators are advancing?

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  3. What does the messenger announce?

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  4. About what strategic point do Antony and Octavius disagree?

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  5. What has Brutus chosen to do that reveals his lack of military judgement and foreshadows his defeat?

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  6. Name the three people who join Brutus and Cassius as they lead their armies.

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  7. How does Brutus interpret the way Antony and Octavius are standing?

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  8. Cassius and Brutus advance to meet Antony and Octavius. What takes place, basically, between the generals?

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  9. Which character seems to become the most vicious and heated in his speech during the talk?

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  10. Who terms the conspirators "flatterers?"

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  11. Cassius turns to Brutus and complains about what?

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  12. Who draws his sword?

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  13. According to him, how many wounds did Caesar have?

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  14. According to Octavius, he was not born to die on whose sword?

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  15. What relation was Octavius to Julius Caesar?

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  16. Octavius tells Cassius and Brutus to come to the field if they dare to fight that day, or, if not, what?

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  17. As Antony, Octavius, and their armies leave the field, with whom does Brutus desire to confer?

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  18. With whom does Cassius confer?

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  19. Cassius feels compelled against his will to risk all on one battle, just as who else has been compelled to do in the past?

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  20. Who does Cassius feel has put him in such a position?

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  21. On their way to Sardis, what unusual occurrence took place around Cassius?

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  22. What animals now represent bad omens to Cassius?

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  23. In the conversation between Brutus and Cassius before battle, what does Cassius want to know?

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  24. What is Brutus’s response?

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  25. By his answer, he suggests that he might consider what rather than give in to death at the hands of the enemies?

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  26. According to Cassius in scene 3, what error has Brutus made?

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  27. According to Cassius, although this is the day of his birth, what also will it be?

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  28. Pindaurus misinterprets Titiunius’s meeting with the soldiers down below. What wrong fact does he relate to Cassius?

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  29. Because of Pindaurus’s error, what does Cassius decide to do?

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  30. How does he accomplish it?

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  31. Who else was killed with Cassius’s sword?

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  32. Who discovered the body of Cassius?

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  33. What does Titinius do to himself?

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  34. Who does Brutus say is responsible for all that has happened?

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  35. What tragedy occurs early in scene four?

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  36. What mistake do Antony's soldiers make when they first capture Lucilius?

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  37. Who recognizes the error?

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  38. In scene five, what request has Brutus made of Clitus?

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  39. What information does Brutus reveal to Volumnius?

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  40. How does Brutus take his life?

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  41. According to Antony, Brutus was the most noble Roman of them all, because what he did to Caesar, he did for the common good of the people, but the others betrayed Caesar because of what?

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  42. According to Antony, what sentence might sum up the life of Brutus?

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  43. What respect does Octavius intend to show the body of Brutus?

 

 

Julius Caesar Quotations

Act Five

 

For each quote, identify the speaker.

 

  1. Now, Brutus, you have only yourself to thank.

    2. This tongue of Antony could not be so offensive today

    If Cassius had prevailed (and Antony had been killed with Caesar)

     

  2. Look here, I draw a sword against conspirators.

 

3. Be my witness that – against my will,

as Pompey was – I am forced to risk

all our freedoms in one battle

 

  1. May the gods today be well-disposed to us, so that we may

As good friends in peace, lead our lives on to old age.

 
  1. Don’t believe, you noble Roman,

That Brutus will ever go to Rome as a bound captive-

He has too great a sense of decency

 
  1. On this day I took my first breath. Time is come around,

    2. And where I began there shall I end;

     

  2. Are there still two Romans living such as Cassius and Titinius?

    3. The last of all the Romans, farewell.

    It is impossible that Rome should ever

    Give birth to your equal.

     

  3. Kill Brutus and win glory by his death.

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  4. This was the noblest Roman of them all.

    5. All the conspirators, except Brutus,

    Did what they did out of jealousy and spite against great Caesar.

    Only Brutus joined them for public, honorable motives

    And concern for the common good of the Roman people.

    His life was noble and the elements of his character were

    So harmoniously mixed that Nature might stand up

    And declare to the whole world, "This was a man!"

     

  5. For the sake of our old friendship, I beg you

To hold my sword hilt while I run onto my sword