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Table of Contents
Workbook Summary :
The scene is set in a street in Rome – Julius Caesar is to celebrate his triumphant return to Rome after defeating Pompey’s sons at the battle of Munda. The first scene of the play opens on February 15th, 44 BC., with the common citizens of Rome celebrating his victory by taking a holiday from their trade and crowding the city roads, eagerly awaiting to see him and to strew flowers in the way of his golden chariot as Caesar passes by in a victory procession.
The common people, some of them in a jovial mood, are rebuked by the two Tribunes, Marullus and Flavius who are supporters of Pompey. They accuse the people of having taken a holiday from work. When one of the citizens, a cobbler by trade, tells them that they have gathered here to rejoice in Caesar’s victory, Marullus tears into them and accuses them of having forgotten Pompey, the Roman general they had once adored and worshipped like a god. They accuse the citizens of celebrating the victory of a man (Caesar) who has just defeated and shed the blood of Pompey’s own sons. The Tribunes order the crowds to go back home and pray for forgiveness, then to gather on the banks of the holy Tiber and weep tears of repentance into it for the disrespect they have shown to Pompey. The citizens, feeling guilty for their ingratitude, leave without uttering a word.
The Tribunes, hostile to Caesar, go about stripping the statues of Caesar of their decorations thus hoping to put a check on Caesar’s growing popularity. They fear that should Caesar rise too high he will become a dictator and treat them all like slaves. They go about doing so even though it was the feast of Lupercal, a Roman festival, celebrated in honour of God Lupercus, who is the protector of flocks and herds and who ensures fertility of animals during spring. It is held every year on 15th February at the Lupercal, a cave below the western corner of Palestine.
Workbook MCQs :
1. Where does Scene 1 of Act I take place?
a. in a street in Rome
b. in a garden in Rome
c. on the battlefield
d. on the banks of the Tiber River
Answer:- a. in a street in Rome
2. Who is a tribune?
a. a nobleman
b. a leader of people
c. a magistrate with legal powers
d. a manual worker
Answer:- b. a leader of people
3. The two tribunes were followers of
a. Julius Caesar
b. Pompey
c. Calpurnia
d. the common people
Answer:- b. Pompey
4. Who is referred to as ‘idle creatures’?
a. the ordinary citizens of Rome
b. the citizens of Munda
c. people of the upper classes of Rome
d. the statues of Caesar
Answer:- a. the ordinary citizens of Rome
5. An example of the literary device ‘alliteration’ is when Flavius tells the citizens:
a. So you do too, where you perceive them thick’
b. Hence! Home you idle creatures get you home.’
c. Why dost thou lead these men about the street?
d. and keep us in servile fearfulness.’
Answer:- b. Hence! Home you idle creatures get you home.’
6. Why are they called ‘idle creatures’?
a. they are sitting without moving
b. they are punning on ‘idol’ and ‘idle’
c. they should be working and not wasting time
d. they are rejoicing
Answer:- c. they should be working and not wasting time
7. What does ‘being mechanical’ mean?
a. without feelings
b. ordinary manual workers
c. traders
d. citizens belonging to the upper classes
Answer:- b. ordinary manual workers
8. Who is the second citizen?
a. carpenter
b. cobbler
c. soldier
d. artist
Answer:- b. cobbler
9. One example of punning is when the cobbler tells Marullus
a. in respect of
b. I can mend you
c. why, sir, a carpenter
d. nay, I beseech you
Answer:- b. I can mend you
10. The Second Citizen tells Flavius that they have taken a holiday to
a. walk about in the beautiful parks made by Caesar
b. meet friends and passers-by
c. see Caesar pass by on his chariot and to rejoice at his victory
d. stone Caesar when his chariot passes by
Answer:- c. see Caesar pass by on his chariot and to rejoice at his victory
11. Why does Marullus scold the citizens?
a. they are crowding the streets
b. he is angry and bitter to see that Pompey has been forgotten
c. he fears that they will do no work that day
d. he has to keep an eye on them all the time
Answer:- b. he is angry and bitter to see that Pompey has been forgotten
12. What does ‘captive bonds his chariot wheels’ refer to?
a. the chariot wheels
b. people out there rejoicing
c. citizens running after the chariot
d. the captured princes tied to the chariot wheels of Caesar
Answer:- d. the captured princes tied to the chariot wheels of Caesar
13. Julius Caesar is returning to Rome after having defeated:
a. a foreign army
b. invaders of Rome
c. the sons of his old rival, Pompey (Pompey’s blood)
d. the mutineers
Answer:-c. the sons of his old rival, Pompey (Pompey’s blood)
14. Marullus addresses the citizens by calling them
a. towers, windows and chimney tops
b. blocks, stone and worse than senseless things
c. infants, chariot wheels and senseless things
d. blocks, walls and battlements
Answer:- b. blocks, stone and worse than senseless things
15. For whom had these same people waited for in the years gone by?
a. Julius Caesar
b. Flavius and Marullus
c. Pompey
d. the tradesmen
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16. The common citizens are to welcome Caesar by
a. shouting out his name aloud and throwing their caps up in the air
b. taking a holiday, dressing up and scattering flowers before his passing chariot
c. going about their work as usual
d. taking a stroll along the river Tiber
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17. In order to intermit the plague, the commoners are instructed to
a. run back to their homes
b. jump into the river
c. run back home and pray to the gods
d. weep tears of repentance into the river
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18. An example of the literary device, ‘hyperbole’ is when Flavius tells the commoners to go to the Tiber and cry tears of repentance till
a. the lowest stream rises to the top of the bank
b. the river rises with their tears and causes floods
c. they have no more tears to shed
d. they are exhausted with crying
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19. After Marullus and Flavius have shouted at the common people, they
a. ignore the two tribunes
b. insist on staying back
c. go away without saying anything
d. raise slogans against them
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20. What does ‘Caesar’s trophies’ refer to?
a. flags, garlands and laurel crowns
b. flags
c. flowers and bouquets
d. ribbons and necklaces
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21. What does Flavius instruct Marullus to do?
a. count the statues of Caesar in the city
b. remove all the decorations from Caesar’s statues
c. break Caesar’s statues
d. go and bow before Caesar’s statues
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22. What was the Capitol?
a. the main city of Rome
b. a busy area in the centre of the city
c. the name of the river
d. the temple to Jupiter situated on a hill
Answer:- d. the temple to Jupiter situated on a hill
23. What is Caesar compared to?
a. lion
b. falcon
c. raven
d. Dove
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24. What does ‘growing feathers’ refer to?
a. the decorated statues of Caesar, his growing popularity and ambition
b. that his statues are decorated with feathers of the falcon bird
c. the entry of Caesar on his chariot
d. the triumphal procession
Answer:- a. the decorated statues of Caesar, his growing popularity and ambition
25. What does Shakespeare do through Flavius and Marullus?
a. uses them as the two main characters in the play
b. shows their importance for Rome
c. presents the atmosphere of strife and unrest in Rome
d. shows the common people shouting out there and rejoicing on the streets.
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26. Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two tribunes?
a. they have legal powers
b. they believe in the monarchist form of government
c. they are accusing the commoners of praising Caesar
d. they are speaking with a cobbler and a carpenter
Answer:- b. they believe in the monarchist form of government
27. Read carefully and choose the option that lists the sequence of events in the correct order.
1. Flavius and Marullus get angry with the commoners and order them home.
2. Flavius and Marullus strip Caesar’s statues of all the decorations hoping to lessen his growing popularity.
3. The citizens reply that they have taken a holiday to see Caesar and rejoice in his victory
4. Flavius and Marullus enter the stage and question the citizens for not working at that day.
a. 4,3,1,2
b. 1,2,3,4
c. 4,3,2,1
d. 3,4,2,1
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Workbook Questions :
Question No: 1
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
1. Who speaks these lines? To whom are these words addressed?
Answer:- Marullus, one of the tribunes; speaks to one of the citizens who are rejoicing in a street in Rome.
2. Who is ‘he’ referred to in the first line of the extract? What does the speaker want to convey to the listeners?
Answer:- ‘He’ referred to in the first line is Caesar. The speaker wants to convey that Caesar has brought no wealth to the state. So, there is no cause for rejoicing.
3. What is the conquest referred to in the extract? Why has the conqueror not brought any territories to Rome by his conquest?
Answer:- The conquest referred to in this extract is Caesar’s victory over Pompey and his sons. The conqueror has not brought any territories because it was just victory in a civil war, and not on any foreign foe.
4. How does the speaker show his anger towards the listeners after the extract?
Answer:-The speaker shows his anger to the listeners by calling them blocks, stones, heartless persons. He asks them to go to their work.
5. Give the meanings of:
a. What tributaries follow him to Rome-
Answer:- No tributaries have been added to the state by Caesar’s victory. No foreign enemy has been captured to fill coffers of the state.
b. To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels-
Answer:- Caesar has not captured and chained any slaves to the chariot wheels to seek money from them. This victory is not at all glorious.
Question No: 2
MARULLUS – What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?
Second Commoner: Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me:
yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
1. Who is Marullus? Why is he angry with the citizens?
Answer:- He is one of the tribunes. He is angry with the citizens for neglecting their work and rejoicing in the street.
2. Why are the citizens out on the streets?
Answer:- The citizens are out on the streets because it is the feast of the Lupercal. Besides, they are rejoicing and making merry at Caesar’s victory over Pompey.
3. What has the second citizen said just before this extract to annoy Marullus? What is his profession?
Answer:- The second citizen has said earlier that he can mend him (Marullus). In fact he uses pun. His trade is mending the soles. He is a cobbler.
4. Give the meanings of:
a. If you be out-
Answer:- It means that if you feel annoyed. It also means that if you go out and wear your shoes out, your shoes will have to be mended.
b. I can mend you-
Answer:- There is a pun once again on ‘mend’. It means the cobbler will mend the shoes. It also implies that he can ‘re-cover’ his shoes.
5. How does the second citizen reveal his identity later?
Answer:- The second citizen reveals his identity in a round about manner by using ‘pun’ on the word ‘mend’. He says that he is a cobbler, a mender of the soles of the shoes.
Question No: 3
MARULLUS – And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?
1. Who is Marullus referring to? Where did the people gather to see his chariot?
Answer:-Marullus is referring to Pompey and his victories in earlier times. Then the people would gather on walls and battlements, towers and windows to see ‘Pompey’s chariot pass through the streets of Rome.
2. What do ‘replication’ and ‘concave shore’ mean? Explain the last two lines of the extract.
Answer:- ‘Replication’ means echo and ‘concave shore’ means the hollow rocks which formed the banks of the Tiber.
The last two lines mean that people in their excitement and joy shouted and raised slogans in so high pitched voices, that it appeared that the river Tiber trembled with her hollow banks to hear the repeated echoes of the sound and noise made by the crowd.
3. What does Marullus tell them to do to repent for their mistake?
Answer:- Marullus tells them to run back to their houses and fall upon their knees and pray to God to protect them the punishment for their ingratitude.
4. How does Marullus make them feel guilty?
Answer:- Marullus makes them feel guilty of ingratitude because they had applauded Pompey for his victories. But now they have forgotten Pompey and are rejoicing over Caesar’s triumph over Pompey and his sons.
5. What effect does Marullus’ words have on the people?
Answer:- Marullus’s reprimand has the desired effect on the people. They immediately comply with the orders and disperse.
Question No: 4
MARULLUS – May we do so?
You know it is the feast of Lupercal.
FLAVIUS – It is no matter; let no images Be hung with Caesar’s trophies.
1. What instruction has Flavius given to Marullus before this extract?
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2. Why is Marullus hesitant to carry out the orders of Flavius? What is the significance of that day?
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3. What does Flavius volunteer to do after the extract?
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4. What is meant by ‘trophies’? Why does Flavius say that no images should be hung with Caesar’s trophies?
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5. How is Flavius more assertive than Marullus? Why do you think so?
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Question No: 5
FLAVIUS – These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,
1. Who is Flavius speaking with? Who is he? Wity was he elected?
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2. What does ‘growing feathers’ refer to about Caesar?
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3. Why does Flavius want Caesar to ‘fly an ordinary pitch’ or height?
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4. What are Flavius and the person spoken to afraid of (regarding Caesar)?
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5. What was the feast of Lupercal?
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