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"Julius Caesar" Worksheet

Name_______________________________________

Vocabulary: Write down the definition for each of the following vocab words from Act I.
1. barren (adj)
2. blunt (adj)
3. conspirator (n)
4. countenance (n)
5. encompass (v)
6. infirmity (n)
7. portentous (adj)
8. servile (adj)
9. soothsayer (n)
10. torrent (n)

Directions: Answer each of the following questions based on your reading of Act I.
1. Explain why the working men are celebrating in the first scene. Why does Marullus
reproach them?
2. What is the setting of Scene 2? What warning does the soothsayer give Caesar, and
what is Caesar’s response?

In a sentence or two (using your textbook as a reference), describe/define each of the following:

William Shakespeare
Queen Elizabeth I
The Globe Theater
Julius Caesar
The Black Plague
Elizabethan Theater
Festival of Lupercal

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