#8

1. “Et tu, Brutè? – Then fall, Caesar”

a.     Caesar

b.     Brutus

c.     Brutus has just given the final and fatal blow to Caesar and, as he falls and dies, he utters those words.

d.     Et tu, Brutè translates to And you, Brutus? Caesar feels betrayed by his right-hand man. Brutus stabs him last after all of the other conspirator and Caesar basically asks him, “and you too, Brutus?”

2. “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

a.     Brutus

b.     Plebians

c.     Brutus is trying to explain to the Plebians his reasoning for killing Caesar before Mark Antony’s speech.

d.     Brutus makes an argument that Caesar was murdered for the good of Rome. He had nothing against Caesar and he did love him, but he believed that he needed to protect his country and killing Caesar was the only option.

3. “This was the most unkindest cut of all” (III.ii.195)

a.     Mark Antony

b.     Plebians

c.     At Caesar’s funeral, Mark Antony says that Brutus’s last fatal blow to Caesar was the “unkindest” cut out of all of the conspirators who had maimed Caesar.

d.     Mark Antony believes Brutus’s cut to be the most “unkindest” because of the fact that Caesar trusted Brutus whole-heartedly.

4. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

a.     Mark Antony

b.     Plebians

c.     Mark Antony starts off his speech at Caesar’s funeral with these lines.

d.     Though he states that he is not going to praise Caesar, he does the exact opposite. He also states later on in the speech that Brutus was an honorable man, though what he says otherwise makes that statement false. This sets a sarcastic tone to Antony’s speech.

5. “I could be well moved, if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. But I am constant as the Northern Star, of whose fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.”

a.    Caesar

b.   Cassius

c.    Cassius begs for Caesar to bring Publius Cimber back from banishment, but Caesar remains firm with his answer of, “no”.

d.   Caesar is “constant as the Northern Star”, meaning that his answers are always final and will never change.