1. Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and CleopatrA:) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around ___?
A:) 1606
B:) 1607
C:) 1608
D:) 1609
springline- Correct option: B:) 1607
2. The plot is based on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's Lives (in Ancient Greek) and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the ______?
A:) Egypt Republic
B:) England Republic
C:) Roman Republic
D:) Africa Republic
springline- Correct option: C:) Roman Republic
3. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs of the Second Triumvirate and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The tragedy is mainly set in the Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Egypt and is characterized by swift shifts in geographical location and Which register as it alternates between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and a more pragmatic, austere Rome ?
A:) Critic
B:) Poet
C:) Philosophy
D:) linguistic
springline- Correct option: D:) linguistic
4. Many consider Shakespeare's Cleopatra, Whom describes as having ‘infinite variety’, as one of the most complex and fully developed female characters in the playwright's body of work.She is frequently vain and histrionic enough to provoke an audience almost to scorn ?
A:) Enobarbus
B:) Octavia
C:) Pompay
D:) Gaius Octavian
springline- Correct option: A:) Enobarbus
5. It is difficult to classify Antony and Cleopatra as belonging to a single genre. It can be described as a history play , as a tragedy (though not completely in Aristotelian terms), as a comedy, as a romance, and according to some critics, such as McCarter, a problem play. All that can be said with certainty is that it is a ________?
A:) England play
B:) Italian Play
C:) Egyptian play
D:) Roman play
springline- Correct option: D:) Roman play
6. Mark Antony—one of the triumvirs of the Roman Republic, along with Octavius and Lepidus—has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra. He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled against_____?
A:) Proculeius
B:) Octavius
C:) Alexas
D:) Enobarbus
springline- Correct option: B:) Octavius
7. Octavius calls Antony back to Rome from Alexandria to help him fight against Sextus Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, three notorious pirates of the Mediterranean. Who and Cleopatra begs Antony not to go, and though he repeatedly affirms his deep passionate love for her ?
A:) Eros
B:) Enobarbus
C:) Alexandria
D:) Caesar
springline- Correct option: C:) Alexandria
8. The triumvirs meet in Rome, where Antony and Octavius put to rest, for now, their disagreements. Octavius' general, suggests that Antony should marry Octavius's sister, Octavia, in order to cement the friendly bond between the two men. Antony accepts. Antony's lieutenant Enobarbus, though, knows that Octavia can never satisfy him after Cleopatra. Who is Octavius’ general ?
A:) Pompey
B:) Lepidus
C:) Agrippa
D:) Scarus
springline- Correct option: C:) Agrippa
9. Where Cleopatra learns of Antony's marriage to Octavia and takes furious revenge upon the messenger who brings her the news and she grows content only when her courtiers assure her that Octavia is homely: short, low-browed, round-faced and with bad hair?
A:) Egypt
B:) Rome
C:) Africa
D:) Scotland
springline- Correct option: A:) Egypt
10. Who suggests to Sextus that he kill the three triumvirs and make himself ruler of the Roman Republic, but he refuses, finding it dishonourable, after Antony departs Rome for Athens, Octavius and Lepidus break their truce with Sextus and war against him, This is unapproved by Antony, and he is furious ?
A:) Marcus
B:) Eros
C:) Thyreus
D:) Menas
springline- Correct option: D:) Menas
11. Antony returns to Hellenistic Alexandria and crowns Cleopatra and himself as rulers of Egypt and the eastern third of the Roman Republic (which was Antony's share as one of the triumvirs). He accuses Octavius of not giving him his fair share of Sextus' lands, and is angry that whom Octavius has imprisoned, is out of the triumvirate ?
A:) Soothsayer
B:) Eros
C:) Lepidus
D:) Iras
springline- Correct option: C:) Lepidus
12. Antony prepares to battle Octavius. Enobarbus urges Antony to fight on land, where he has the advantage, instead of by sea, where the navy of Octavius is lighter, more mobile and better manned. Who refuses, since Octavius has dared him to fight at sea ?
A:) Antony
B:) Cleopatra
C:) Enobarbus
D:) Eros
springline- Correct option: A:) Antony
13. Octavius sends a messenger to ask Cleopatra to give up Antony and come over to his side. She hesitates, and flirts with the messenger, when Antony walks in and angrily denounces her behavior. He sends the messenger to be whipped. Eventually, he forgives Cleopatra and pledges to fight another battle for her, this time on _____?
A:) field
B:) land
C:) river side
D:) hills
springline- Correct option: B:) land
14. Antony follows her, leaving his forces to ruin. Ashamed of what he has done for the love of Cleopatra, Antony reproaches her for making him a coward, but also sets this true and deep love above all else, saying ‘Give me a kiss; even this repays me.’ Cleopatra pledges her fleet to aid Antony. However, during the Battle of Actium off the western coast of Greece, Cleopatra flees with her __?
A:) forty ships
B:) fifty ships
C:) sixty ships
D:) fifty boats
springline- Correct option: C:) sixty ships
15. On the eve of the battle, Antony's soldiers hear strange portents, which they interpret as the god Hercules abandoning his protection of Antony. Furthermore, Who is Antony's long-serving lieutenant, deserts him and goes over to Octavius' side ?
A:) Octavia
B:) Eros
C:) Enobarbus
D:) Marcus Agrippa
springline- Correct option: C:) Enobarbus
16. Cleopatra’s plan backfires: rather than rushing back in remorse to see the ‘dead’ Cleopatra, Antony decides that his own life is no longer worth living. He begs one of his aides, Who to run him through with a sword, but he cannot bear to do it and kills himself?
A:) Octavia
B:) Iras
C:) Enobarbus
D:) Eros
springline- Correct option: D:) Eros
17. Since Egypt has been defeated, the captive Cleopatra is placed under a guard of Roman soldiers. She tries to take her own life with a dagger, but Proculeius disarms her. Octavius arrives, assuring her she will be treated with honour and dignity. But Who secretly warns her that Octavius intends to parade her at his Roman triumph ?
A:) Octavian
B:) Dolabella
C:) Mark Antony
D:) Proculeius
springline- Correct option: B:) Dolabella
18. Cleopatra kills herself using the venomous bite of an asp, imagining how she will meet Antony again in the afterlife. Her serving maids Iras and Charmian also die, Iras from heartbreak and Charmian from one of the two asps in Cleopatra's _______?
A:) room
B:) basket
C:) box
D:) dress
springline- Correct option: B:) basket
19. Who discovers the dead bodies and experiences conflicting emotions, Antony's and Cleopatra's deaths leave him free to become the first Roman Emperor, but he also feels some sympathy for them. He orders a public military funeral?
A:) Octavius
B:) Thyreus
C:) Octavian
D:) Alexas
springline- Correct option: A:) Octavius
20. Antony admires Whose courage and attempts to do the same, but only succeeds in wounding himself and In great pain, he learns that Cleopatra is indeed alive. He is hoisted up to her in her monument and dies in her arms ?
A:) Enobarbus
B:) Octavian
C:) Eros
D:) Alexas
springline- Correct option: C:) Eros
21. The principal source for the story is an English translation of Plutarch's ‘Life of Mark Antony,’ from the Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together. This translation, by Sir Thomas North, was first published in ______?
A:) 1579
B:) 1578
C:) 1577
D:) 1576
springline- Correct option: A:) 1579
22. Historical facts are also changed: in Plutarch, Antony's final defeat was many weeks after the Battle of Actium, and Octavia lived with Antony for several years and bore him two children: Antonia Major, paternal grandmother of the Emperor ____?
A:) Claudius
B:) Nero
C:) Valeria Messalina
D:) Tiberius
springline- Correct option: B:) Nero
23. Many scholars believe it was written in 1606–07, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating, around 1603–04. Antony and Cleopatra was entered in the Stationers' Register (an early form of copyright for printed works) in ________?
A:) July 1608
B:) March 1608
C:) April 1608
D:) May 1608
springline- Correct option: D:) May 1608
24. Shakespeare’s play is articulated in forty separate ‘scenes’, more than he used for any other play. The large number of scenes is necessary because the action frequently switches between Alexandria, Italy, Messina in Sicily, Syria, Athens, and other parts of Egypt and the Roman Republic. How many speaking characters were in this play ?
A:) 32
B:) 33
C:) 34
D:) 35
springline- Correct option: C:) 34
25. The strong influence of Virgil's first-century Roman epic poem, the Aeneid, on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Such influence should be expected, given the prevalence of allusions to Virgil in the Renaissance culture in which Shakespeare was educated. The historical Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil's Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the ______?
A:) north African
B:) South African
C:) Roman
D:) south America
springline- Correct option: A:) north African
26. The phenomenon is illustrated by the famous poet take on Cleopatra ,he saw her as ‘no wielder of power,’ but rather that her ‘devouring sexuality...diminishes her power’. His language and writings use images of darkness, desire, beauty, sensuality, and carnality to portray not a strong, powerful woman, but a temptress, Whose notion is this?
A:) John Keats
B:) John Dryden
C:) T.S. Eliot
D:) Wordsworth
springline- Correct option: C:) T.S. Eliot
27. The postmodern view of Cleopatra is complex. Who suggests that, in a postmodern philosophical sense, we cannot begin to grasp the character of Cleopatra because, ‘In a sense it is a distortion to consider Cleopatra at any moment apart from the entire cultural milieu that creates and consumes Antony and Cleopatra on stage ?
A:) L.T. Fitzs
B:) Doris Adler
C:) John Gillies
D:) Donald Freeman
springline- Correct option: B:) Doris Adler
28. In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare uses several literary techniques to convey a deeper meaning about the differences between Rome and Egypt. One example of this is his schema of the container as suggested by Who was in his article, ‘The rack dislimns.’ In whose article, Freeman suggests that the container is representative of the body and the overall theme of the play that ‘knowing is seeing ?
A:) L.T. Fitzs
B:) Donald Freeman
C:) John Gillies
D:) Hirsh
springline- Correct option: B:) Donald Freeman
29. In Mary Thomas Crane article, ‘Roman World, Egyptian Earth’, critic she introduces another symbol throughout the play: The four elements. In general, characters associated with Egypt perceive their world composed of the Whose elements, which are earth, wind, fire and water ?
A:) Platonic
B:) Spenserian
C:) Socrates
D:) Aristotelian
springline- Correct option: D:) Aristotelian
30. A major theme running through the play is opposition. Throughout the play, oppositions between Rome and Egypt, love and lust, and masculinity and femininity are emphasised, subverted, and commented on. Whose description of Cleopatra on her barge, is full of opposites resolved into a single meaning, corresponding with these wider oppositions that characterise the rest of the play ?
A:) Enobarbus
B:) Mark Antony
C:) Julius Caesar
D:) Octavian
springline- Correct option: A:) Enobarbus