Antony and Cleopatra Study Guide

1. Shakespeare lived during

• the eighteenth century
• the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
• the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• the fifteenth century

2. <i>Antony and Cleopatra</i> was written in

• 1343
• 1595
• 1607
• 1725

3. <i>Antony and Cleopatra</i> is categorized as a

• both tragedy and one of Shakespeare's "Roman play"
• comedy
• one of Shakespeare's "Roman play"
• tragedy

4. Shakespeare's plays were performed at

• both the Globe theater and the Blackfriars theater
• the Globe theater
• the Blackfriars theater
• the Dionysia festival

5. When Shakespeare first came to London, England was under the reign of

• Queen Elizabeth I
• King Henry VIII
• King James I
• Queen Elizabeth II

6. Cleopatra is

• Queen of Egypt
• Queen of Denial
• Empress of Rome
• Queen of Parthia

7. A triumvir is

• one of the three members of the triumvirate, an alliance of powerful generals who rule Rome and all her territories
• one of the three members of the triumvirate, an alliance of admirals who rule the Sicilian pirate fleet
• a Roman lieutenant
• an Egyptian courtesan

8. Octavius Caesar is

• Julius Caesar's nephew and heir
• another name for Julius Caesar
• both Julius Caesar's nephew and heir and Cleopatra's treacherous son
• Cleopatra's treacherous son

9. Lepidus is

• a leper
• the most powerful Roman since Romulus
• the weakest of the triumvirs
• one of Antony's trusted advisors

10. Domitius Enobarbus is

• Antony's friend and a cynical observer of events
• one of Antony's favorite slaves
• Octavius' sauna slave
• a eunuch in Cleopatra's court