ENGL 205 Week 3 Quiz

ENGL 205 Week 3 Quiz | regent-university

•             Question 1               

                According to the Julius Caesar: Critical Guide video, Shakespeare took much of the detail for his play from Plutarch's Lives of the Emperors.                                  

•             Question 2               

                Portia pleads with Brutus to explain why he seems so troubled and withdrawn in Act 2, Scene 1.                                              

•             Question 3               

                When Caesar sees that Brutus is one of the conspirators, he ceases struggling.                                 

•             Question 4               

                In the funeral speech in Act 3, Scene 2, Antony repeats that Brutus is an honorable man.                                             

•             Question 5               

                According to the video Julius Caesar: Critical Guide a major theme in Julius Caesar is the corrupting influence of politics and power..                                       

•             Question 6               

                According to the Whiteboard presentation on Renaissance literature, the popular style of this period tended toward variety, experimentation, and a lack of ornamentation.                                

•             Question 7               

                Artimedoras' letter in Act 2, Scene 3, is written to ease Caesar's mind about a potential conspiracy.                                         

•             Question 8               

                Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "Beware the hot-temper'd Brutus."                                         

•             Question 9               

                Caesar is played as a reasonable and generous and fit person in the play, the model of a noble king.                                       

•             Question 10               

                In Act 2, Scene 2, on the morning of the Ides of March, Caesar considers not going to the Senate on that day.