Julius Caesar Act1 Answers

Julius Caesar Act1 answers

1:1

1.  Why are the workers not working?

2.  Why is Marullus angry with them?

3.  After the commoners leave, what does Flavius want Marullus to do?

1:2

1.  What does Caesar want Antony to do during the race?

2.  Why?.

3.  What warning does the soothsayer give?

4.  What is Caesar’s reaction?

5.  Why does Caesar react that way?

6.  What has Cassius observed about Brutus’s personality lately?

7.  How does Brutus explain?

8.  How does Cassius feel about Caesar?

9.  Why does he feel this way?

10.  What does Cassius want Brutus to do?

11.  How does Brutus feel about this?

12.  What does Brutus mean when he says, “Brutus had rather be a villager/Than to repute himself a son of Rome.”

13.  How does Caesar feel about Cassius?

14.  Why does Caesar want men who are fat to be around him?

15.  How does Antony feel about Cassius?

16.  What does Marc Antony offer Caesar?

17.  Why does Caesar refuse it three times?

18.  What has happened to Marullus and Flavius?

19.  What 2 physical maladies does Caesar have?

20.  What does Cassius mean when he says: “Well, Brutus, thou art noble. Yet I see/Thy honorable mettle may be wrought/From that it is disposed.”

1:3

1.  List the strange things that Casca sees as he is walking.

2.  What does Casca say that all of these things mean?

3.  How does Cicero interpret the storm

4.  What does Cassius say that all the strange things that are happening mean?

5.  Who is Cassius talking about when he says “ name me a man/most like this dreadful night”?

6.  Why does Cassius describe Caesar as a wolf and the Romans as sheep?

7.  Why does Cassius call the people of Rome trash?

8.  What bargain is Cassius talking about with Casca?

9.  What does Cassius want Cinna to do?

10.  Why?