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The document discusses a passage from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. It contains multiple questions about speeches delivered by Brutus and Mark Antony after Caesar's assassination. The questions analyze rhetorical devices, themes of ambition and honor, and whether Antony succeeded in turning the Roman citizens against the conspirators.

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Grade VIII

The document discusses a passage from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. It contains multiple questions about speeches delivered by Brutus and Mark Antony after Caesar's assassination. The questions analyze rhetorical devices, themes of ambition and honor, and whether Antony succeeded in turning the Roman citizens against the conspirators.

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  • Class Test Introduction: Begins the class test with an excerpt from a play, setting the stage for the following questions about the text and its interpretations.
  • Class Test Questions: Continues with a series of analytical questions focusing on characters and themes within the provided text.
  • Class Test Conclusion: Concludes with deeper reflective questions that explore emotional responses and philosophical themes regarding the text.

Class Test

1.BRUTUS ‘Be patient till the last. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honour, and have
respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and
awake your senses, that you may the better judge.’

(a) Where is Brutus at the present moment? What is the occasion?

(b)What is Brutus’s cause for killing Caesar?

2. ANTONY ‘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;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.’

(a)Explain: ‘The good is oft interred with their bones.’

(b)Which two reasons does Antony give to prove that Caesar was not ambitious?

3. Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less,


but that I loved Rome more.
Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves,
than that Caesar were dead, to live all free man?
As Caesar loved me I weep for him,
as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it,
as he was valiant, I honour him.
(i) Why does Brutus make the above speech?
(a) To plead and justify himself
(b) to provoke the conspirator
(c) he is afraid of Mark Antony
(d) he wishes to prove his nobility
(ii) What reasons does Brutus offer for killing Caesar?
(a) Caesar was too dominating
(b) Roman liberty and democracy were at stake under Caesar
(c) Caesar was too strict in implementing laws
(d) He was ruthless and unkind

4.Mark Antony :
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill;
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

(i) Why does Mark Antony keep repeating that ‘Brutus is an honourable man’?
(a) Because his is clever
(b) Not to sound disagreeable to the crowd
(c) Because he is patriotic
(d) Because he respects Brutus

(ii) Quote one example from the above speech that is in praise of Caesar?
(a) he waged wars
(b) punished the captives of war
(c) filled the coffers of Rome by bringing captives to Rome
(d) he was ambitious

(iii) What attitude of Mark Antony is reflected by the above speech?


(a) cleverness
(b) great oratorial skills
(c) bravery
(d) vanity

5. How did Antony prove that Caesar was not ambitious?

6. What is the purpose of Antony’s speech? Does he succeed in his mission?

1. What metaphor does Krishna use when speaking of death?


2. Are ‘killing’ and letting die the same?
3. Explain the line ‘He is unborn,eternal,permanent, and primeval. He is not
slain when the body is slain.’
4. RTC
‘Just as a person casts off worn-out garments
And puts on others that are new,
even so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies
and take on others that are new.’
I. Who is the speaker here.
II. What do you mean by ‘embodied soul’.
III. Is the speaker able to resolve the doubts held by the listener.

5. What emotions does the speaker bring out in the reader?

6. Compare the idea of death held by Arjuna with the concept of the soul as
explained by Krishna in these lines.

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