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Julius Caesar - Exam
Contributed by: Barrett
  • 1. In which ancient city is the play set?
A) Sparta
B) Athens
C) Carthage
D) Rome
  • 2. Who warns Caesar to 'Beware the Ides of March'?
A) Soothsayer
B) Portia
C) Cassius
D) Brutus
  • 3. Who is Caesar's closest friend and betrayer?
A) Cassius
B) Brutus
C) Mark Antony
D) Octavius
  • 4. Who forms the second triumvirate with Octavius and Lepidus?
A) Brutus
B) Mark Antony
C) Cassius
D) Caesar
  • 5. Who speaks the famous line 'Et tu, Brute?'
A) Cassius
B) Caesar
C) Brutus
D) Mark Antony
  • 6. Which character convinces Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar?
A) Cassius
B) Soothsayer
C) Mark Antony
D) Caesar
  • 7. Who is Caesar's wife in the play?
A) Portia
B) Cornelia
C) Octavia
D) Calpurnia
  • 8. What do the conspirators stab Caesar with in the assassination scene?
A) Daggers
B) Spears
C) Knives
D) Swords
  • 9. How many acts are there in 'Julius Caesar'?
A) Seven
B) Four
C) Five
D) Six
  • 10. In which year did Julius Caesar form the First Triumvirate with Crassus and Pompey?
A) 50 BC
B) 56 BC
C) 60 BC
D) 58 BC
  • 11. Who were the main opponents of Caesar's political power in the Senate?
A) Brutus and Cassius
B) Cato the Younger and Cicero
C) Mark Antony and Octavian
D) Pompey and Crassus
  • 12. What significant geographical feature did Caesar cross in 49 BC, defying the Senate?
A) The Rhine River
B) The Alps
C) The Tiber River
D) The Rubicon River
  • 13. Which calendar did Julius Caesar create to replace the republican lunisolar calendar?
A) The Roman Calendar
B) The Gregorian Calendar
C) The Julian Calendar
D) The Solar Calendar
  • 14. What title was Julius Caesar proclaimed in early 44 BC?
A) Dictator for life
B) Emperor of Rome
C) King of Rome
D) Consul for life
  • 15. What was the name of Caesar's great-nephew who became the first emperor of Rome?
A) Tiberius
B) Caligula
C) Octavian (Augustus)
D) Nero
  • 16. Which war did Caesar win that solidified his power in 45 BC?
A) The Macedonian Wars
B) Caesar's Civil War
C) The Punic Wars
D) The Gallic Wars
  • 17. What major reform did Caesar implement regarding the Senate?
A) Changed its meeting location
B) Reduced its power significantly
C) Greatly increased its size
D) Abolished it entirely
  • 18. Which territories were granted Roman citizenship by Caesar?
A) Communities in Spain and northern Italy
B) Carthage and Numidia
C) Egypt and Syria
D) All of Gaul
  • 19. What was the primary reason for Caesar's assassination?
A) Disagreement over military strategy
B) His defeat in battle
C) Economic collapse under his rule
D) Fear of his power and potential to become king
  • 20. Which river did Caesar famously build a bridge across during the Gallic Wars?
A) The Rhine River
B) The Danube River
C) The Seine River
D) The Loire River
  • 21. What was the outcome of Caesar's invasion of Britain?
A) He formed an alliance with local tribes
B) He conquered and annexed it to Rome
C) He invaded but did not establish long-term control
D) He was defeated and retreated immediately
  • 22. Which of Caesar's writings provides much information about his life?
A) Poetry collections
B) His accounts of military campaigns
C) Legal documents
D) Philosophical treatises
  • 23. What was the name of Caesar's adopted heir who became Augustus?
A) Antony
B) Tiberius
C) Cicero
D) Octavian
  • 24. To which family did Julius Caesar belong?
A) gens Julia
B) gens Cornelia
C) gens Marcia
D) gens Aurelia
  • 25. Which city did the gens Julia claim to have immigrated from?
A) Capua
B) Carthage
C) Alba Longa
D) Rome
  • 26. Who was the third king of Rome associated with the destruction of Alba Longa?
A) Servius Tullius
B) Romulus
C) Numa Pompilius
D) Tullus Hostilius
  • 27. Which goddess was Julius Caesar's clan claimed to be descended from?
A) Venus
B) Minerva
C) Juno
D) Diana
  • 28. Was there evidence that Caesar was born by Caesarian section?
A) Yes, he was born by Caesarian section
B) Only some sources suggest it
C) No, there is no evidence
D) It is uncertain
  • 29. Who was Julius Caesar's mother?
A) Cornelia
B) Aurelia
C) Julia
D) Octavia
  • 30. To which influential family did Aurelia belong?
A) Cornelii
B) Marcii
C) Julii
D) Aurelii Cottae
  • 31. Who was Julius Caesar's sister married to?
A) Lucius Cornelius Sulla
B) Pompey the Great
C) Marcus Licinius Crassus
D) Gaius Marius
  • 32. Who was Caesar's father forced to divorce under Sulla's orders?
A) Julia
B) Pompeia
C) Servilia
D) Cinna's daughter, Cornelia
  • 33. Which king did Caesar stay with as a guest in Bithynia?
A) Nicomedes IV
B) Ptolemy XII
C) Mithridates VI
D) Antiochus XIII
  • 34. Who was Caesar's tutor when he went to Rhodes?
A) Polybius
B) Hermagoras
C) The rhetorician Apollonius Molon
D) Demetrius of Phalerum
  • 35. Who did Caesar unsuccessfully attempt to prosecute in 77 BC?
A) Marcus Licinius Crassus
B) Lucius Cornelius Cinna
C) Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella
D) Pompey the Great
  • 36. Who was Julius Caesar's second wife after the death of Cornelia?
A) Lucullus' niece
B) Crassus' sister
C) Pompey's daughter Julia
D) Sulla's granddaughter Pompeia
  • 37. What was the most famous event of 63 BC involving Julius Caesar?
A) The Catilinarian conspiracy
B) The Battle of Pharsalus
C) The formation of the First Triumvirate
D) The assassination of Pompey
  • 38. Who wrote a poem suggesting Caesar and Mamurra were lovers?
A) Catullus
B) Virgil
C) Ovid
D) Horace
  • 39. What was the task assigned to Caesar during his later dictatorships, similar to Sulla's dictatorship?
A) Organizing gladiatorial games
B) Building new roads
C) Expanding Roman territory
D) Rei publicae constituendae (restoring the state)
  • 40. Which law did Julius Caesar support that was related to land reform proposals?
A) Lex Gabinia
B) Lex Cornelia
C) Lex Julia de Ambitu
D) Proposals by plebeian tribune Publius Servilius Rullus
  • 41. What was the relationship between Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus and Julia?
A) Nephew
B) Son
C) Cousin
D) Grandson
  • 42. What title did attempts in January 44 BC try to call Caesar?
A) consul
B) dictator
C) emperor
D) rex
  • 43. Who was the mother of Marcus Junius Brutus?
A) Cornelia
B) Calpurnia
C) Servilia
D) Pompeia
  • 44. Where was the battle that marked Caesar's victory over Pompey's sons?
A) Ruspina
B) Thapsus
C) Munda
D) Zela
  • 45. How many conspirators were involved in the assassination plot by February 44 BC?
A) Some sixty
B) Ten
C) A hundred
D) Thirty
  • 46. How was Julius Caesar's family name written in Greek during his time?
A) Kaiser
B) Caesar
C) Cæsar
D) Καίσαρ (Kaísar)
  • 47. What condition is sometimes thought to have affected Julius Caesar according to Plutarch?
A) Malaria
B) Epilepsy
C) Hypoglycemia
D) Deafness
  • 48. What was Caesar planning to avenge with the Parthian war?
A) Juba's rebellion
B) Crassus' death at Carrhae
C) His own defeat at Ruspina
D) Pompey's defeat at Pharsalus
  • 49. Which senator objected to Caesar's restoration of Marius' trophies?
A) Publius Servilius Isauricus
B) Crassus
C) Pompey
D) Quintus Lutatius Catulus
  • 50. Who did Julius Caesar support in the late 70s to restore tribunician rights?
A) Lucullus
B) Sulla
C) Pompey
D) Crassus
  • 51. What phrase did Caesar write after defeating Pharnaces at Zela?
A) Veni, vidi, vici
B) Alea iacta est
C) Carthago delenda est
D) Et tu, Brute?
  • 52. Whose command did plebeian tribune Metellus Nepos attempt to transfer from Gaius Antonius Hybrida?
A) Cato's
B) Caesar's
C) Quintus Minucius Thermus'
D) Pompey's
  • 53. What did Julius Caesar do at public funerals for his aunt Julia and wife Cornelia?
A) Hosted feasts
B) Gave eulogies
C) Displayed war trophies
D) Organized military parades
  • 54. What was the Roman calendar month Quintilis renamed after Julius Caesar?
A) Nero
B) Caesaris
C) Augustus
D) Julius (now July)
  • 55. Which playwright's quote did Caesar allegedly use when crossing the Rubicon?
A) Aristophanes
B) Sophocles
C) Euripides
D) Menander
  • 56. Where did Pompey meet his end?
A) Alexandria
B) Pharsalus
C) Rome
D) Zela
  • 57. Where did the assassins seize control immediately following Caesar's assassination?
A) The Forum
B) The Capitoline hill
C) Tiber Island
D) Regia
  • 58. What was the pronunciation of Caesar's name in German regional pronunciations of Latin?
A) [ˈtʃɛːzar]
B) [ˈkaɪzɐ]
C) [ˈseːsar]
D) [ˈtseːzaʁ]
  • 59. Who brought a law appointing Caesar dictator to conduct the elections?
A) Cicero
B) Pompey
C) Lepidus, as praetor
D) Marcus Junius Brutus
  • 60. Where did Caesar decisively defeat Pompey?
A) Rome
B) Pharsalus
C) Ilerda
D) Dyrrhachium
  • 61. Who wrote the eighth book of 'The Gallic Wars'?
A) Aulus Hirtius
B) Pompey
C) Cicero
D) Mark Antony
  • 62. What was the relationship between Julius Caesar and Pompeia at the time of their marriage?
A) She was Lucullus' niece
B) She was Sulla's granddaughter
C) She was Crassus' sister
D) She was Pompey's daughter
  • 63. In Classical Latin, how was Julius Caesar's name pronounced?
A) [ˈkaɪzɐ]
B) [ˈseːsar]
C) [ˈɡaːi.ʊs ˈjuːliʊs ˈkae̯sar]
D) [ˈtʃɛːzar]
  • 64. Which traditional Roman institution's power over war and peace was usurped by Caesar?
A) Comitia centuriata
B) Tribunes of the Plebs
C) Praetors
D) Senate
  • 65. What condition do some medical historians counter the claim of epilepsy with regarding Caesar?
A) Malaria
B) Tapeworm infection
C) Hypoglycemia
D) Deafness
  • 66. Who proposed recalling Caesar in 51 BC?
A) Cicero
B) Pompey
C) Julius Caesar himself
D) The consul Marcellus
  • 67. Where did Pompey escape to after withdrawing from Brundisium?
A) Egypt
B) Greece
C) Spain
D) Rome
  • 68. What title was Caesar given that was historically associated with censorial power?
A) Imperator
B) Pontifex Maximus
C) Praefectus moribus
D) Consul
  • 69. How long did Caesar serve as dictator before resigning?
A) Six months
B) Eleven days
C) Thirty days
D) One year
  • 70. What did Caesar ultimately choose over a triumph?
A) A military campaign in Gaul
B) Retirement from public life
C) Supporting Cato's policies
D) The consulship
  • 71. Where did Caesar suffer a defeat on 4 January 46 BC?
A) Zela
B) Munda
C) Thapsus
D) Ruspina
  • 72. What did Dolabella agitate for in 47 BC?
A) Tax cuts
B) Military expansion
C) Debt relief
D) Land reform
  • 73. Who catalogued the surviving editions of Caesar's Commentaries and translated them to Turkish?
A) Louis XIV
B) Suleiman the Magnificent
C) Charles V
D) Napoleon III
  • 74. Who stood for the consulship of 59 BC along with Julius Caesar?
A) Two other candidates
B) Pompey and Crassus
C) Lucius Lucceius and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
D) Marius and Cinna
  • 75. How many triumphs did Caesar celebrate upon his return to Italy?
A) Three
B) Two
C) Five
D) Four
  • 76. Who was Caesar's co-consul that opposed his legislative agenda?
A) Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus
B) Lucius Lucceius
C) Pompey
D) Crassus
  • 77. What is the term used for a political rule led by a charismatic strongman, exemplified by Julius Caesar?
A) Democracy
B) Oligarchy
C) Caesarism
D) Autocracy
  • 78. Which historical figure defined themselves as Caesarists and focused on Caesar's relation with the masses?
A) Napoleon Bonaparte
B) Suleiman the Magnificent
C) Augustus
D) Benito Mussolini
  • 79. What did Pliny the Elder report about Caesar's father and forefather?
A) They suffered from epilepsy.
B) They had malaria.
C) They were deaf in one ear.
D) They died without apparent cause while putting on their shoes.
  • 80. What title was Caesar hailed with after his campaign in Hispania Ulterior?
A) Praetor
B) Consul
C) Dictator
D) Imperator
  • 81. What is the standard abbreviation for Julius Caesar's name?
A) GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR
B) C. IVLIVS CÆSAR
C) CAIVS IVLIVS CÆSAR
D) GAIUS IVLIVS CAESAR
  • 82. Who was executed during Caesar's triumph in Rome?
A) Vercingetorix
B) Cato
C) Pompey
D) Labienus
  • 83. What form did Julius Caesar use for his message scrolls to make them easier to read?
A) Scroll
B) Papyrus
C) Codex
D) Concertina
  • 84. Why did Julius Caesar divorce Pompeia?
A) For health reasons
B) Over the Bona Dea scandal
C) Because she was unfaithful
D) Due to political disagreements
  • 85. Who wrote the scholarly work 'Histoire de Jules César' that was not finished?
A) Charles V
B) Suleiman the Magnificent
C) Napoleon III
D) Louis XIV
  • 86. On what date do special commemorations take place to commemorate Caesar's death?
A) 1 January
B) 23 October
C) 21 February
D) 15 March
  • 87. Where did Pompey flee after being defeated at Pharsalus?
A) Rome
B) Africa
C) Spain
D) Egypt
  • 88. How many books cover Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and southern Britain?
A) Eight books
B) Seven books
C) Five books
D) Six books
  • 89. What is the name of Julius Caesar's child with Cleopatra VII?
A) Alexandros Helios
B) Ptolemy
C) Caesarion
D) Cleopatra Selene II
  • 90. What is the English title of 'Commentarii de Bello Gallico'?
A) On the African War
B) On the Alexandrine War
C) The Civil War
D) The Gallic Wars
  • 91. Who did Caesar leave in charge of Italy while he attacked Pompey's Spanish provinces?
A) Lepidus
B) Pompey
C) Marcus Junius Brutus
D) Cicero
  • 92. What was the name of the legion Caesar crossed the Rubicon with?
A) Legio V Alaudae
B) Legio IX Hispana
C) Legio XIII Gemina
D) Legio X Equestris
  • 93. Which province was Caesar appointed to govern after his praetorship?
A) Asia
B) Hispania Ulterior
C) Gaul
D) Africa
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