NAME:______

TEACHER:______

English 3-4

DATE:______

Julius Caesar – Act 3 Test

Part One

Directions: Answer the following questions using complete sentences. Some questions will require textual evidence.

  1. Who is the first to stab Caesar?
  1. Who are the conspirators?
  1. What did Caesar say before he died? What does this mean?
  1. What reasons did Brutus give the citizens for Caesar’s assassination? How did they react to his speech?
  1. How did the citizens react to Antony’s Speech? What innocent bystander was killed as a result?
  1. What item of Caesar’s did Antony claim to have?
  1. In Antony’s speech to the citizens, what is he comparing?

Part Two:

Using all of Act 3, find one example each of the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. Be sure to indicate which page and line you are quoting in your response.

Example (cite page & line #) / Explanation. How does this fit the given rhetorical device?
8. Ethos
9. Pathos
10. Logos

Part Three

Directions: Match each vocabulary word with the correct definition or synonym. Write the correct letter on the line provided.

_____ 11. satisfied; pleasedA. abide

_____ 12. money or property left in a will; reputationB. appeased

_____ 13. Fearful; doubtfulC. apprehensive

_____ 14. one who conspires; plots againstD. banished

_____ 15. to give permission; allowE. compel

_____ 16. spitefulness; showing evilF. consent

_____ 17. exiled; thrown outG. conspirator

_____ 18. to drive forwardH. ingratitude

_____ 19. to follow or tolerateI. legacy

_____ 20. failure to show or express thanksJ. malice

Directions: Choose three of the vocabulary words from Act 3 and use them in an original and creative sentence of your own (you may change the form of the word). Box the vocabulary word in your sentence.

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Part Four

Directions: For each of the following underlined excerpts from Antony’s speech in Act III, identify which rhetorical device is being used and explain how it is used. Use the devices listed below.

Rhetorical Question Alliteration Irony Personification Hyperbole

24. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?(line 85)

Device: / Explanation:

25. I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?(line 92)

Device: / Explanation:

26. And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds / Anddip their napkins in his sacred blood, / Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, / And, dying, mention within their will, /Bequeathing it as a rich legacy / Unto their issue. (lines 127-132)

Device: / Explanation:

27. I fear I wrong the honorable men / Whose daggers have stabb’d Caesar; I do fear it.(lines 146-147)

Device: / Explanation:

28. Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold? / Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? (lines 189-190)

Device: / Explanation:

29. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up / To such a sudden flood of mutiny. (lines 203-204)

Device: / Explanation:

30. Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths/ And bid them speak for me.(lines 218-219)

Device: / Explanation: