Brutus notices this character flaw in Caesar and joins the conspiracy to kill Caesar.
What is ambition (power hungry)?
100
My tragic flaw includes being gullible and struggling with the decision to assassinate Caesar.
Who is Brutus?
100
The Soothsayer gave Caesar this warning.
What is "Beware the ides of March"?
100
This is the type of play featured by Julius Caesar.
What is a tragedy?
100
Caesar compares himself to this animal and to this very particular source of light in the sky.
What are lion and Northern Star?
200
Readers can use these two techniques to find and identify the theme or main ideas in a passage
What are repetition (words, ideas) and conflict?
200
I was the mastermind behind the conspiracy.
Who is Cassius?
200
This was Caesar's final words.
What is "Et tu Brute. Then fall Caesar"? (Et tu Brute)
200
This is the actual date of Caesar's death
What is March 15 (Ides of March)?
200
This character called Brutus the "noblest Roman of them all"
Who is Antony?
300
When Caesar says, "Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come” and "Cowards die many times before their death", his main idea is.
What is truly courageous people do not worry when facing a problem?
300
I committed suicide by swallowing fire.
Who is Portia?
300
Marc Antony repeated this main idea in his speech to the Romans to discredit Brutus's actions.
What is "Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honourable man"? (Brutus is honorable)
300
This idea is an example of foreshadowing in Act II, Scene II.
What is Calpurnia's dreams of Caesar's death?
300
These three characters could represent the supernatural
Who is the Soothsayer, Caesar's ghost, and Calpurnia?
400
The cause of death for Cassius demonstrates this main idea.
What is ambition leads to corruption or evil does not go unpunished?
400
We were angry at the people of Rome for celebrating Caesars triumph over Pompey in Act I: scene i.
Who is Flavius and Marullus?
400
In Act III, Scene II (funeral speech) Brutus gives this reason for assassinating Caesar.
What is "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"?
400
In Act II, Scene 1 Brutus uses this literary device to describe Caesar: “And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which hatch’d would as his kind, grow mischievous and kill him in the shell.”
What is simile?
400
Caesar compares himself to this before he dies.
What is "constant as the Northern Star"?
500
When Cassius says, "...the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are
underlings..." he is saying that
What is men are responsible for their own destiny and/or gods have little to do with men's destiny?
500
These three people either kill themselves or have others kill them (suicide).
Who are Brutus, Cassius, and Portia?
500
In Act I, Scene II lns 189-192 Julius Caesar becomes suspicious of Cassius and says this.
What is "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous" ?
500
In Act II, Scene I lns 21-27 Shakespeare uses this literary device to compare a man climbing a ladder to a man "ambition's ladder".
What is metaphor? (ambition has a ladder)
500
Caesar responded to the soothsayer this way
What is "he is a dreamer" - or does not believe the warning?