Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Eliminate assessment planning duties and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Test and Answer Key for High School

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Eliminate assessment planning responsibilities and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) A breakdown of content follows.

Part 1. Knowledge of Plot. Students will demonstrate comprehension of the following:

  • The motivations of a crowd in Act 1

  • The Feast of Lupercal

  • The function of the Soothsayer

  • Cassius' manipulation of Brutus

  • How Brutus rationalizes murderous deeds

  • Brutus' faith in his followers

  • Calpurnia's nightmares

  • Supernatural occurrences preceding Caesar's death

  • The purpose of Artemidorus' letter

  • Caesar's hubris

  • Antony's apology to Caesar's corpse

  • Brutus' self-image

  • Efforts to manipulate Caesar's will

  • The changing nature of Brutus and Cassius' relationship

  • Cassius' dynamic character

  • The nature of Cassius' death

  • Antony's treatment of Lucilius

  • Brutus' suicide

Part 2. True/False. Students will identify whether a statement is true or false. Questions focus on:

  • Setting

  • Peculiar incidents preceding Caesar's death

  • Portia's concern for Caesar

  • Antony's dire prediction for the fate of the Republic

  • The public's rejection of Brutus

  • Qualities about Cassius that make Brutus suspicious

  • A poet

  • Titinius' criticism of Brutus' orders

Part 3. Quotations in Context. Students will match an excerpt with its appropriate context.

  • Act 1, scene 2: "When Caesar says ‘do this,’ it is perform’d."

  • Act 1, scene 2: "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

  • Act 2, scene 1: "O Rome, I make thee promise: / If the redress will follow, thou receivest / Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!"

  • Act 2, scene 2: "When beggars die there are no comets seen; / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

  • Act 3, scene 1: "And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; / Yet in the number I do know but one / That unassailable holds on his rank, / Unshaked of motion: and that I am he..."

  • Act 4, scene 3: "O, I could weep / My spirit from mine eyes!"

  • Act 5, scene 3: "This day I breathed first: time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass..."

Part 4. Application of Literary Devices. Students will be given a detail or excerpt from the drama and must determine which literary device is best reflected. Literary devices addressed include:

  • Personification

  • Anaphora

  • Hyperbaton

  • Alliteration

  • Metaphor

  • Simile

  • Onomatopoeia

  • Hyperbole

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare's plays:

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Eliminate assessment planning responsibilities and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) A breakdown of content follows.

Part 1. Knowledge of Plot. Students will demonstrate comprehension of the following:

  • The motivations of a crowd in Act 1

  • The Feast of Lupercal

  • The function of the Soothsayer

  • Cassius' manipulation of Brutus

  • How Brutus rationalizes murderous deeds

  • Brutus' faith in his followers

  • Calpurnia's nightmares

  • Supernatural occurrences preceding Caesar's death

  • The purpose of Artemidorus' letter

  • Caesar's hubris

  • Antony's apology to Caesar's corpse

  • Brutus' self-image

  • Efforts to manipulate Caesar's will

  • The changing nature of Brutus and Cassius' relationship

  • Cassius' dynamic character

  • The nature of Cassius' death

  • Antony's treatment of Lucilius

  • Brutus' suicide

Part 2. True/False. Students will identify whether a statement is true or false. Questions focus on:

  • Setting

  • Peculiar incidents preceding Caesar's death

  • Portia's concern for Caesar

  • Antony's dire prediction for the fate of the Republic

  • The public's rejection of Brutus

  • Qualities about Cassius that make Brutus suspicious

  • A poet

  • Titinius' criticism of Brutus' orders

Part 3. Quotations in Context. Students will match an excerpt with its appropriate context.

  • Act 1, scene 2: "When Caesar says ‘do this,’ it is perform’d."

  • Act 1, scene 2: "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

  • Act 2, scene 1: "O Rome, I make thee promise: / If the redress will follow, thou receivest / Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!"

  • Act 2, scene 2: "When beggars die there are no comets seen; / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

  • Act 3, scene 1: "And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; / Yet in the number I do know but one / That unassailable holds on his rank, / Unshaked of motion: and that I am he..."

  • Act 4, scene 3: "O, I could weep / My spirit from mine eyes!"

  • Act 5, scene 3: "This day I breathed first: time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass..."

Part 4. Application of Literary Devices. Students will be given a detail or excerpt from the drama and must determine which literary device is best reflected. Literary devices addressed include:

  • Personification

  • Anaphora

  • Hyperbaton

  • Alliteration

  • Metaphor

  • Simile

  • Onomatopoeia

  • Hyperbole

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare's plays:

Eliminate assessment planning responsibilities and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a self-grading Google Drive option is available.) A breakdown of content follows.

Part 1. Knowledge of Plot. Students will demonstrate comprehension of the following:

  • The motivations of a crowd in Act 1

  • The Feast of Lupercal

  • The function of the Soothsayer

  • Cassius' manipulation of Brutus

  • How Brutus rationalizes murderous deeds

  • Brutus' faith in his followers

  • Calpurnia's nightmares

  • Supernatural occurrences preceding Caesar's death

  • The purpose of Artemidorus' letter

  • Caesar's hubris

  • Antony's apology to Caesar's corpse

  • Brutus' self-image

  • Efforts to manipulate Caesar's will

  • The changing nature of Brutus and Cassius' relationship

  • Cassius' dynamic character

  • The nature of Cassius' death

  • Antony's treatment of Lucilius

  • Brutus' suicide

Part 2. True/False. Students will identify whether a statement is true or false. Questions focus on:

  • Setting

  • Peculiar incidents preceding Caesar's death

  • Portia's concern for Caesar

  • Antony's dire prediction for the fate of the Republic

  • The public's rejection of Brutus

  • Qualities about Cassius that make Brutus suspicious

  • A poet

  • Titinius' criticism of Brutus' orders

Part 3. Quotations in Context. Students will match an excerpt with its appropriate context.

  • Act 1, scene 2: "When Caesar says ‘do this,’ it is perform’d."

  • Act 1, scene 2: "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

  • Act 2, scene 1: "O Rome, I make thee promise: / If the redress will follow, thou receivest / Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!"

  • Act 2, scene 2: "When beggars die there are no comets seen; / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

  • Act 3, scene 1: "And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive; / Yet in the number I do know but one / That unassailable holds on his rank, / Unshaked of motion: and that I am he..."

  • Act 4, scene 3: "O, I could weep / My spirit from mine eyes!"

  • Act 5, scene 3: "This day I breathed first: time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass..."

Part 4. Application of Literary Devices. Students will be given a detail or excerpt from the drama and must determine which literary device is best reflected. Literary devices addressed include:

  • Personification

  • Anaphora

  • Hyperbaton

  • Alliteration

  • Metaphor

  • Simile

  • Onomatopoeia

  • Hyperbole

Materials are available for teaching a variety of Shakespeare's plays:

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Eliminate assessment planning responsibilities and evaluate high school students' knowledge of plot and literary craft with this 50-question summative test covering William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. An answer key is included.