Caesar’s Jeopardy Game Wait, what happened? ShakespeareCaesar Ho?! The Term Is … Who Said It?

What were the years of Shakespeare’s birth and death? Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

What were the three types of plays that Shakespeare wrote? Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Before Shakespeare was a playwright and poet, what did he do? He was an actor. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

What poetic form did Shakespeare most commonly write in? Iambic pentameter. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

How did the Globe Theater burn down? During a performance of Henry VIII, a canon set the roof on fire. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Why did Cassius kill himself? He was defeated by Antony and thought Brutus was defeated, too Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

What did Cassius use to make sure Brutus was aligned with the conspirators? Forged letters. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

How does Portia die? She “swallows fire.” She swallowed hot coals. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Explain the following quote: No, not an oath. If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse - If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed. If we’re not doing this for the right reasons go home now. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Which persuasive technique did Cassius use MOST to sway the decision of Brutus? Logos, but some pathos too. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

What is the name of the man Caesar overthrew to take control of Rome? Pompey. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Name one of Caesar’s weaknesses mentioned by Cassius. He’s a poor swimmer and he got sick in Spain. (I will also accept, although not mentioned by Cassius, that he is deaf in one ear and has seizures) Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Who is the first conspirator to stab Caesar? Casca (Speak hands for me!) Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Which conspirator reinterprets Calpurina’s dream and convinces Caesar to go to the Capitol? Decius Brutus. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Before entering the Capitol, how many warning signs does Caesar miss about the conspiracy? Name them. 1.“Beware the Ides of March” 2. Artemidorus’ letter Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

The literary term for the character who drives the action of the plot. Protagonist. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

The literary term for the highest point of the action. Climax. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

The conversation between Flavius and Marullus and the cobbler serves as this? Exposition. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

A word or phrase that means two different things at the same time is called this? A pun. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

The fact that Cassius dies on his birthday is an example of this? Situational irony. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep-a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He things too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. Marc Antony. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Marcus Brutus. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Julius Caesar. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT

Beware the Ides of March. Soothsayer. Click Below to Reveal Answer INCORRECTCORRECT