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 * //Julius Caesar// : Act One - Reading Questions

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1. Where does the first scene take place?

2. What are Flavius and Marullus doing?

3. According to a laborer, why have the people left their shops and assembled?

4. Who was Pompey?

5. Who was Lupercal, and when did the Feast of Lupercal occur?

6. What character establishes the notion that Caesar is ambitious, and that he flies too high and is a danger to free men?

7. What warning does the fortuneteller give to Caesar?

8. What is Caesar’s response to the fortuneteller’s warning?

9. What do Cassius and Brutus discuss after Caesar and his followers leave?

10. With who is Brutus upset and why?

11. Cassius openly works on contrasting Brutus’s humility to Caesar’s presumptuousness and arrogance. Why?

12. What fear does Brutus blurt out when shots are heard and a trumpet sounds?

13. When Caesar returns from the race, which character’s countenance seems to disturb him?

14. How does Caesar contrast Cassius with Antony?

15. Why does Antony have to speak to Caesar from his right side?

16. Why does Brutus grasp Casca’s cloak? What does he want to know?

17. What does Casca tell him has happened?

18. What other physical impairment does Caesar have?

19. According to Casca, did the Roman people seem to want Caesar to be king?

20. What dramatic action had Caesar taken in front of the people before his fainting?

21. Cassius’s major plan involves Brutus. What is it?

22. What secretive means does Cassius intend to use to persuade Brutus he is more noble than Caesar?

23. In scene three, it is the evening of the Ides of March. Describe the weather.

24. Casca meets Cicero on the streets. State two unexplainable events.

25. What is Caesar to do tomorrow?

26. Cassius compared the storm to whom?

27. According to Casca, what do the senators plan to do tomorrow?

28. According to Cinna, acquiring the cooperation of who would be more beneficial?

29. Cinna is to deliver the forged letters to what three places?

30. Who "sits high in all the people’s hearts?"