ABEKA WORLD LITERATURE TEST 10 – Flashcards
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how many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
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154
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when was Shakespeare born?
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1564
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when did Shakespeare die?
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1616
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Marullus and Flavius were ____
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tribunes
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Cassius was a ____
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Epicurean
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Brutus was a ____
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Stoic
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Cicero could speak what foreign language well?
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Greek
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first person to stab Caesar
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Casca
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Portia's father
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Cato
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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"
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Caesar
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"between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasm, or a hideous dream"
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Brutus
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"the day I breathed first; time is come round, and where I did begin, there I shall end"
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Cassius
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"not that I have loved Caesar left, but that I have loved Rome more"
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Brutus
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"even so great men great losses should endure"
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Messala
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"friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"
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Mark Antony
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"this was the noblest Roman of them all"
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Brutus
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"for he will never follow anything that other men begin"
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Cicero
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"...for he is given to sports, to wildness, and much company"
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Antony
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"...you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm"
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Cassius
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in which theater were many of Shakespeare's plays performed by his own acting company?
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Globe
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what time of the day were plays usually performed in Elizabethan theaters?
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afternoon
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Caesar was told to "beware the ides" of which month?
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March
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where did the battle in Act 5 take place?
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Philippi
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tried to warn Caesar of the conspiracy
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Artimedorus
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Caesar's wife
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Calpurnia
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servant to Brutus
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Lucius
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poet mistaken for a conspirator
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Cinna
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Brutus's wife
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Portia
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chosen to lead Caesar to the Senate
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Decius Brutus
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servant to Cassius
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Pindarus
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Caesar's nephew and heir
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Octavius
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offered Caesar a crown
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Mark Antony
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convinced Brutus to join the conspiracy
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Cassius
