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 * //Julius Caesar// Act Five Study Questions

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1. Where does scene one take place?

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

3. What does the messenger announce?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What animals now represent bad omens to Cassius?

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

12. What is Brutus’s response?

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

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

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

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

17. How does he accomplish it?

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

19. Who discovered the body of Cassius?

20. What does Titinius do to himself?

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

22. How does Brutus take his life?

23. 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?

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

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