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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Part 7: Thematic Development — Cumulative exam Answers

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What are the central ideas of this excerpt? Select two options.

A
Antony wants everyone to know that he wanted Caesar dead.
B
Antony does not believe that Caesar deserves a funeral, but unwillingly agreed to speak to please the conspirators.
C
The mistakes men make are remembered after their deaths, but their good deeds more often die with them.
D
If Caesar was power-hungry, it was a serious flaw, and he paid seriously for it.
E
Antony believes the conspirators should be rewarded with riches for their sacrifice and willingness to kill the ambitious Caesar.
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Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of Julius Caesar.[ANTONY.] But here’s a parchment with the sealof Caesar;I found it in his closet. 'Tis his will.Let but the commons hear this testament—Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read—And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds,And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,And, dying, mention it within their wills,Bequeathing it as a rich legacyUnto their issue.

A
Antony incites anger in the people by displaying and reading Caesar’s will to show how rich Caesar has become as the leader of Rome.
B
Antony suggests that the people go to Caesar’s body to take relics to show their disrespect and dislike for Caesar.
C
Antony displays Caesar’s will and says that if the people read it, they would worship Caesar so much that they would want something from him to worship as a relic.
D
Antony has Caesar’s will and reads it to the crowd even though it offers further evidence of Caesar’s ambition and greed will upset the people even more.
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Which statements describe what to do when writing an effective summary of a speech? Select three options.Include the rhetorical techniques used in the speech.State the speaker’s central idea in your own words.Include all the details and examples given in the speech.Present the ideas in the same order they appear in the speech.Begin with the central idea and then include a few key details.

A
Include the rhetorical techniques used in the speech.
B
State the speaker’s central idea in your own words.
C
Include all the details and examples given in the speech.
D
Present the ideas in the same order they appear in the speech.
E
Begin with the central idea and then include a few key details.
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.Nora: What are you going to do?Helmer: [looking among his papers] Settle it. [Enter MAID.] Look here; take this letter and go downstairs with it at once. Find a messenger and tell him to deliver it, and be quick. The address is on it, and here is the money.Maid: Very well, sir. [Exit with the letter.]Helmer: [putting his papers together] Now then, little Miss Obstinate.Nora: [breathlessly]. Torvald—what was that letter?Helmer: Krogstad's dismissal.Nora: Call her back, Torvald! There is still time. Oh Torvald, call her back! Do it for my sake—for your own sake—for the children's sake! Do you hear me, Torvald? Call her back! You don't know what that letter can bring upon us.Helmer: It's too late.Nora: Yes, it's too late.Helmer: My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in, although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn't it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver's vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless, because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me. [Takes her in his arms.] And that is as it should be, my own darling Nora. Come what will, you may be sure I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed. You will see I am man enough to take everything upon myself.Nora: [in a horror-stricken voice]. What do you mean by that?Helmer: Everything, I say—Nora: [recovering herself] You will never have to do that.Helmer: That's right. Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be. [Caressing her.] Are you content now? There! There! Not these frightened dove's eyes! The whole thing is only the wildest fancy! Now, you must go and play through the Tarantella and practise with your tambourine. I shall go into the inner office and shut the door, and I shall hear nothing; you can make as much noise as you please. [Turns back at the door.] And when Rank comes, tell him where he will find me. [Nods to her, takes his papers and goes into his room, and shuts the door after him.]

A
Helmer decides he might need to use strength against Krogstad to make him leave his position at the bank.
B
Helmer realizes that Nora is right about Krogstad, which will keep her secret safe from him later in the play.
C
Helmer thinks that Nora is afraid his reputation will suffer, heightening the suspense about her real secret.
D
Helmer agrees with Nora that it is too late and that he has made a mistake with Krogstad, which creates conflict.
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Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk for anything.But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. "If you don't hurry up and get me out of here, I'm disappearing for good," it warned. "And then you'll always be nothing."

A
an internal conflict within the mother, who wants her daughter to be a prodigy
B
an internal conflict within the narrator, who wants to be a prodigy but has not found the right activity
C
an external conflict between the narrator and her mother over the pace of the narrator’s learning
D
an external conflict between the narrator, who wants to be a prodigy, and her mother, who is less ambitious
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Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll’s House.Helmer: My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in, although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn't it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver's vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless, because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me. [Takes her in his arms.] And that is as it should be, my own darling Nora. Come what will, you may be sure I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed. You will see I am man enough to take everything upon myself.Nora: [in a horror-stricken voice]. What do you mean by that?Helmer: Everything, I say—Nora: [recovering herself] You will never have to do that.Helmer: That's right. Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be. [Caressing her.] Are you content now? There! There! Not these frightened dove's eyes! The whole thing is only the wildest fancy! Now, you must go and play through the Tarantella and practise with your tambourine. I shall go into the inner office and shut the door, and I shall hear nothing; you can make as much noise as you please. [Turns back at the door.] And when Rank comes, tell him where he will find me. [Nods to her, takes his papers and goes into his room, and shuts the door after him.]

A
“But I forgive you nevertheless, because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me.”
B
“You will see I am man enough to take everything upon myself.”
C
“Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be.”
D
“Now, you must go and play through the Tarantella and practice with your tambourine.”
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Examine the public service ad.

Question illustration
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to encourage tourists to visit urban areas
B
to encourage urban planners to build parks within city limits
C
to show that there are parks near urban areas
D
to show that the expansion of cities is diminishing parkland
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2.[BRUTUS.] If then that friend demandwhy Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:not that I loved Caesar less, but that I lovedRome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, anddie all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to liveall free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him.As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it. As he wasvaliant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, Islew him.

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Brutus explains that if people ask why he killed Caesar, he will tell them that it is not because he did not love Caesar, but because he loved Rome more. He asks if the people would rather have Caesar alive, and die as slaves, or sadly have Caesar dead be free. He says he is sad because he and Caesar were friends. He honors Caesar’s bravery, but Caesar was too ambitious, so because of that dangerous ambition, Brutus had to take part in killing him.
B
Brutus asks the people of Rome if they would rather have Caesar alive and they all be slaves, or have Caesar dead so they can live freely.
C
Brutus explains that he loved Caesar but loves Rome more.
D
Brutus clarifies that he rose against Caesar not because he did not love Caesar, but because he loved Rome more. He asks, “Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?”
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 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 interrèd with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. 25If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest— For Brutus is an honourable man, So are they all, all honourable men—30Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me. But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome,35Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,40And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

A
Antony agrees with Brutus that Caesar was too persistent.
B
Antony wants to make the people angry by defending Caesar.
C
Antony believes that Brutus and the others are as virtuous as Caesar.
D
Antony wishes that Caesar would have been more determined.
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Read the passage from A Doll’s HouseNora: [breathlessly]. Torvald—what was that letter?Helmer: Krogstad's dismissal.Nora: Call her back, Torvald! There is still time. Oh Torvald, call her back! Do it for my sake—for your own sake—for the children's sake! Do you hear me, Torvald? Call her back! You don't know what that letter can bring upon us.Helmer: It's too late.Nora: Yes, it's too late.Helmer: My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in, although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn't it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver's vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless, because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me. [Takes her in his arms.] And that is as it should be, my own darling Nora. Come what will, you may be sure I shall have both courage and strength if they be needed. You will see I am man enough to take everything upon myself.Nora: [in a horror-stricken voice]. What do you mean by that?Helmer: Everything, I say—Nora: [recovering herself] You will never have to do that.

A
“Do it for my sake—for your own sake—for the children’s sake.”
B
“You don’t know what that letter can bring upon us.”
C
“Yes, it’s too late.”
D
“You will never have to do that.”
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What evidence supports the conclusion that the narrator’s mother reads about children who excel and tries to awaken similar talents in her daughter? Select three options.

A
“Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table.”
B
“She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read in Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom.”
C
“My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment.”
D
“She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.”
E
“The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. . . . ‘What’s the capital of Finland?’ my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.”
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Which conflict most affects the plot in acts 1 and 2 of Julius Caesar?

A
Flavius and Marullus trying to get the people who are celebrating out of the streets
B
Caesar being suspicious of Cassius and how he is too thin and does not smile
C
Brutus trying to decide whether his love of Rome is stronger than his love for Caesar
D
Casca telling the others how Antony offered the crown to Caesar three times
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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 2.DECIUS. Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar. I come to fetch you to the Senate House.CAESAR. And you are come in very happy time To bear my greeting to the senators And tell them that I will not come today.65 Cannot is false, and that I dare not, falser. I will not come today; tell them so, Decius.CALPURNIA. Say he is sick.CAESAR. Shall Caesar send a lie? Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far,70 To be afraid to tell greybeards the truth? Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.

A
Caesar’s arms are tired from battle, and he wants to stay home from the Senate.
B
It is ridiculous that a man who has won so many battles would be afraid to tell the truth.
C
A man who is ill should honor how he feels and not lie about it to others.
D
Caesar has grown old and should consider spending more time at home.
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Read the passage from the opinion of the court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, written by Justice Taney.The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them.

A
that Black people were covered by the Constitution’s definition of citizen
B
that emancipated Black people had rights guaranteed by the government
C
that Black people were not part of the group considered citizens by the Constitution
D
that Black people would have to get the government's permission to be citizens
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Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of Julius Caesar.[ANTONY.] For Brutus is an honourable man,So are they all, all honourable men—Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.He was my friend, faithful and just to me.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?When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honourable man.You all did see that on the LupercalI thrice presented him a kingly crown,Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,And sure he is an honourable man.

A
It is used as a public expression of praise toward Brutus.
B
It is used as a negative and ironic word to describe Brutus.
C
It is used to show Brutus that Antony thinks more highly of him than Antony does of Cassius.
D
It is used to explain how necessary and noble both the conspirators’ cause and Caesar’s death were
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Read the excerpt from Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech "A Tryst with Destiny.”The future beckons to us. Whither do we go and what shall be our endeavour? To bring freedom and opportunity to the common man, to the peasants and workers of India; to fight and end poverty and ignorance and disease; to build up a prosperous, democratic and progressive nation, and to create social, economic and political institutions which will ensure justice and fullness of life to every man and woman.We have hard work ahead. There is no resting for any one of us till we redeem our pledge in full, till we make all the people of India what destiny intended them to be.We are citizens of a great country, on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard.

A
Nehru uses ethos, relying on his credibility to appeal to his audience.
B
Nehru uses ethos, appealing to the emotions of the audience.
C
Nehru uses pathos, relying on logic to appeal to his audience.
D
Nehru uses pathos, appealing to the emotions of the audience.
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Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.For surely it is time that the effect of discouragement upon the mind of the artist should be measured, as I have seen a dairy company measure the effect of ordinary milk and Grade A milk upon the body of the rat. They set two rats in cages side by side, and of the two one was furtive, timid and small, and the other was glossy, bold and big. Now what food do we feed women as artists upon? I asked, remembering, I suppose, that dinner of prunes and custard.

A
Female artists live in an unhealthy, undesirable cultural environment.
B
Male and female artists have access to different resources.
C
All aspects of women’s lives are affected by the poor treatment they receive.
D
Women can change their circumstances by making different decisions.
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Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and the information in the paragraph below it.Excerpt: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 interrèd with their bones.So let it be with Caesar.Background information:"The Evil That Men Do” is the title of a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The lyrics of the chorus say that people’s evil deeds live on.

A
cultural allusion.
B
literary allusion.
C
historical allusion.
D
religious allusion.
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Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.CASSIUS. Then if we lose this battle, You are contented to be led in triumph Through the streets of Rome?BRUTUS. No, Cassius, no: Think not, thou noble Roman, That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome. He bears too great a mind. But this same day Must end that work the ides of March begun; And whether we shall meet again I know not.

A
It shows that Cassius thinks that Brutus is always too emotional and the first to accept defeat.
B
It implies that Cassius expects that he and Brutus will win in battle and walk once again through the streets of Rome in honor.
C
It reveals that Brutus and Cassius regret killing Caesar, and they would like to make amends to the people of Rome.
D
It creates a greater sense of humiliation for Brutus and their armies who would be led in shame by Antony and Octavius.
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Read the passage from act 4, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.BRUTUS. No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.CASSIUS. Ha! Portia?BRUTUS. She is dead.CASSIUS. How scaped I killing when I crossed you so?O insupportable and touching loss!Upon what sickness?BRUTUS. Impatient of my absence, And grief that young Octavius with Mark AntonyHave made themselves so strong—for with her death That tidings came. With this, she fell distraught,And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.CASSIUS. And died so?BRUTUS. Even so.CASSIUS. O ye immortal gods!

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Brutus's decision to join the conspiracy has led to a catharsis, Cassius making him angry.
B
Brutus's decision to join the conspiracy has led to a catastrophe, the death of his wife.
C
Brutus's decision to join the conspiracy has led to a tragic flaw, Cassius making him angry.
D
Brutus's decision to join the conspiracy has led to a catharsis, the death of his wife.

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