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JC Exam Questions and AnswersAct 1 Scene 1:What dramatic technique does Shakespeare use to start his play? -
Answer-media res
Act 1 Scene 1:What is the significance of Marullus' rebuke of the commoners? -
Answer-alludes to the future events and the fickle nature of the commoners.
Act 1 Scene 1:Why does the Second Commoner pun? - Answer-show they have
intellect and are witty
Act 1 Scene 1:Identify the cobbler's puns. - Answer-" I am but, as you would, a cobbler",
"all that i live by with the awl," "a mender of bad soles", The puns reference to shoes
and cobbling.
Act 1 Scene 1:Why are Marullus and Flavius upset about Caesar's triumphant return? -
Answer-they are envious of caesar; fear what his return means for the future of rome
Act 1 Scene 1:Why do the Tribunes chase the commoners away, and for what does
Marullus reprimand them? - Answer-show their respect for pompey, of whom the
commoners are disrespecting by celebrating caesar. reprimands the celebrations
Act 1 Scene 1:What literary term is illustrated by the following quotation:
"And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way... ?" - Answer-anaphora- repeating phrase at
beginning of each sentence
Act 1 Scene 2:Why does Caesar mention his desire that Calpurnia stand "directly in
Antonius' way" - Answer-reveals his concern over Calpurnia's lack of pregnancy
Act 1 Scene 2: How might Caesar's concern reflect the concerns of his Elizabethan
audience? - Answer-parallels Elizabethan audience because at the time Queen
Elizabeth had no heir either.
Act 1 Scene 2:Why are the tribunes Flavius and Marullus punished? - Answer-they tore
down and vandalized the images/posters of Caesar.
ACt 1 Scene 2:What is the soothsayer's warning to Caesar? What does it mean? -
Answer-"beware the ides of March" it means beware march 15th
Act 1 Scene 2: What problem with time sequences does Shakespeare present to his
audience? - Answer-He jumps from February to the ides of march. feels like a matter of
days even though it is supposedly a month.
, ACt 1 Scene 2:What fear does Brutus note? - Answer-Brutus fears Caesar being
chosen as King.
Act 1 Scene 2:According to Cassius, what happened when Caesar and Cassius went
swimming in the Tiber? What is the point of this story? - Answer-He started to drown
and Cassius saved him. Shows that Caesar is not the god that people treat him like and
is a mortal too, a cowardly one.
Act 1 SCene 2What does Cassius say about fate, free will, and being "underlings"? -
Answer-People are not fated to be underlings, but it is decided by free will who they
are/become.
Act 1 Scene 2:What is noticeably different about Casca's speech compared to Caesar's
or Brutus'? Why is this significant? - Answer-Casca speaks in prose so the audience
can understand.
Act 1 Scene 2:What two physical ailments of Caesar's are mentioned in this scene?
Why are they significant? - Answer-He is deaf in one ear and suffers from epilepsy. This
is significant because it highlights his weaknesses and implies that he is just a regular
person.
Act 1 Scene 2: In response to the "falling sickness", what is the meaning of Cassius'
sarcasm? - Answer-He says that they have the falling sickness because they fall down
in submission to Caesar.
Act 1 Scene 3: Why do the conspirators plant papers on Brutus' chair? - Answer-They
want Brutus to see the negativities of Caesar as king so that he'll join the conspiracy.
ACt 1 SCene 3:There are four specific things Casca has seen. What are they? How
does Casca interpret these strange happenings? How does Cassius? How would
Shakespeare's audience have interpreted them? - Answer-lion, slave with a flaming
hand, ghastly women, and a shrieking owl.
Casca believes Roman people are making Gods unhappy.
Cassius sees it as Caesar's growing power throwing off the course of nature.
Cassius - "Either there is a civil strife in heaven or else the world too saucy within the
Gods, Incenses them to destruction. Cassius thinks the Gods are reacting to Caesar's
ambition. Casca is worried.
Act 1 Scene 3: How do the signs highlight Shakespeare's apparent problem with time
sequences? - Answer-used to foreshadow future events which reveals Shakespeare's
habit of speeding things up.
Act 1 Scene 3: n whom does Cassius blame Caesar's power? Why is this significant? -
Answer-He blames it on the gods first then on the people of Rome.
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