"I shall remember. When Caesar says "Do this," it is performed." (I.ii.12-13)
a. Mark Antony is speaking.
b. Mark Antony is speaking to Caesar.
c. Caesar has just told him to touch Calphurnia, Caesar's wife. It was believed that if a runner touched an infertile woman, she would be able to have children again.
d. Mark Antony is loyal to Caesar and will do anything he asks or commands. Antony is like a loyal dog with no mind of his own. He just wants to keep Caesar happy.
"Brutus" and "Caesar" --- what should be in that "Caesar"? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?" (I.ii.149-152)
a. Caius Cassius is speaking.
b. Caius Cassius is speaking to Marcus Brutus.
c. Caius Cassius is trying to convince Brutus that Caesar is weak. He also wants Brutus to help him bring Caesar's reign tumbling down. In other words, he wants help assassinating Caesar.
d. In this quote, Caius Cassius is using jealousy to provoke Brutus' anger. He asks Brutus what the difference is between him and Caesar, and why Caesar's name is shouted in the streets instead of Brutus'. Cassius' words hit a sore spot in Brutus' pride and nearly has him agreeing at that moment to help kill Caesar.
"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 thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." (I.ii.202-205)
a. Julius Caesar is speaking.
b. Julius Caesar is speaking to Mark Antony.
c. Julius Caesar sees that Cassius looks sneaky and devious. He'd rather have a corpulent man around him, because the corpulent man would make Caesar feel safer. The corpulent man would at least seem a lot less devious and plotting than Cassius. It was the opinion that most of the time a man who was thinner, older, and handsome was more powerful and smart than most others.
d. Julius Caesar doesn't trust Cassius, and rightfully so. Mark Antony ends up convincing him that Cassius is harmless, but Caesar should have gone with his gut and stayed on edge so that he could be ready if anything dangerous occurred. If he had gone with his instincts, he would have been safer and maybe even become conscious of his plotted assassination.
"Tis very like; he hath the falling sickness." (I.ii.265)
a. Marcus Brutus is speaking.
b. Marcus Brutus is speaking to Cassius and Casca.
c. Casca just told Brutus and Cassius that Caesar "fell down in the marketplace and foamed at mouth and was speechless" (I.ii.262-264). Apparently, Caesar has epilepsy.
d. This is very important because it's another stick in Casesar's side. With the inclusion of being unable to swim, deaf in one ear, and acting like a sick girl when he was ill, this shows another one of Caesar's weaknesses. This only goads Cassius further until he finally gets Brutus on his side in Act II.
"I will this night/ In several hands in at his windows throw,/ As if they came from several citizens,/ Writings, all tending to the great opinion/ That Rome holds of his name, wherein obscurely/ Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at." (I.ii.327-332)
a. Caius Cassius is speaking.
b. Caius Cassius is speaking to himself.
c. Brutus almost agreed to help Cassius kill Caesar, but he ended up not doing that. Cassius has decided that he will write a bunch of letters and sign them as though they are from different citizens in Rome. The letters will say that they also want Caesar killed. Cassius plans to place the letters at Brutus' window.
d. Cassius believes that this will completely change Brutus' mind, and he is right. This choice will become the turning point in Brutus' alliances.
"Yes, you are. O Cassius, if you could/ But win the noble Brutus to our party---" (I.iii.145-146)
a. Cinna is speaking.
b. Cinna is speaking Caius Cassius.
c. Cinna, Cassius, and Casca are plotting against Caesar and Cinna wants Brutus to come over to their side/alliance.
d. The three conspirators realize that Brutus would be a very useful weapon to have on their side. Brutus, as Caesar's best friend, would be the one person Caesar would trust above all others. If Brutus was on their side, all worries and doubts they had about how they would convince Caesar to leave his house on the ides of March would disappear.
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