REVISION

Portion: Julius Caesar,

Portion: Juilus Caesar- Act 2 Sc 3 & Act 3 Sc 1, Poetry - Ex-Basketball Player

1. What does Portia do in Act 2, Scene 4, on the day of Caesar's assassination?

a) Sends Lucius to the Senate House.
b) Sends a message to Calpurnia.
c) Prepares a feast.
d) Prays.

2. What does Portia ask of the soothsayer after Lucius leaves for the Senate House on
the day of Caesar's assassination?
a) How long will Caesar live?
b) What will happen to Rome?
c) What will become of Caesar?
d) What will happen to Brutus?

3. Who is the first person to warn Caesar of his assassination?

a) Artemidorus.
b) Calpurnia.
c) Brutus.
d) Soothsayer.

4. Which of these literary devices is employed in “O Brutus, / The heavens speed thee in
thine enterprise.”?

a) Anaphora.
b) Apostrophe.
c) Anachronism.
d) Allusion.

5. “Set a huge mountain ‘tween my heart and tongue !” Identify the language device in
“mountain.’

a) simile
b) personification
c) metaphor
d) synecdoche

6. “Hail Caesar ! Read this schedule !” Who is the speaker of these words?
 a) Soothsayer

b) Decius

c) Publius

d) Artemidorus

7. “I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.” Name the person addressed in these words and
the language device used.

a) Publius Cimber, Simile

b) Metellus Cimber, Simile

c) Cassius, Metaphor

d) Brutus, Metaphor

8. “But I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fixed, and resting quality, l
There is no fellow in the firmament.”. Identify the language devices used.

a) simile and alliteration

b) personification, alliteration and simile
c) metaphor and personification
d) metaphor, personification and simile

9. Choose the correct words as spoken by Casca while stabbing Caesar:

a) Hands, speak for me.

b) Heart, speak for me.
c) Speak, hands, for me.
d) Speak, heart, for me.

10. Which of the following is NOT an example of hyperbole?

a) These couchings and these lowly courtesies / Might fire the blood of ordinary men.
b) Metellus Cimber throws before thy feet an humble heart.
c) What is now amiss / That Caesar and his senate must redress ?
d) To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood / That will be thawed from the true quality
/With that which melteth fools.

11. Where does Pearl Avenue stop ?

 a) At the high-school lot.
b) Before the trolley tracks.
c) Before McComsky Plaza.
d) At Berth’s garage.

12. How many points did Flick Web score for his team in the year 1946?

a) 390
b) 360
c) 38
d) 40

13. What game does Flick Webb play at Mae’s Luncheonette?

a) basketball
b) pinball
c) foosball
d) snooker

14. “Applauding tiers” is an example of :

a) metaphor
b) simile
c) personification
d) oxymoron

15. “idiot pumps” are symbolic of Flick’s :

a) workmates at the garage

b) playmates at Mae’s Luncheonette
c) basketball teammates
d) high-school fans