The play opens with Flavius and Marullus confronting commoners. Which public scene is being shown?

These events happen early in the play: Cassius tests Brutus, Caesar refuses the crown, Casca describes the storm, conspirators visit Brutus. Which comes first?

On the way to the Capitol, whose warning paper does Caesar refuse to read first?

After Decius reinterprets Calpurnia's dream as good fortune for Rome, what happens next?

At the Capitol, what action lets the conspirators crowd around Caesar just before the stabbing?

After the assassination, what does Antony secure from Brutus?

After Antony's oration and the reading of Caesar's will, what does the crowd do?

In the triumvirs' Act 4 scene, how do Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus show the new politics of Rome?

Which accusation belongs to the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius at Sardis?

After Brutus sees Caesar's ghost in his tent, what does the ghost tell him?

At Philippi, why does Cassius order Pindarus to kill him?

Which consequence follows Brutus's choice to let Antony speak after him?

Why does Cassius forge letters and throw them into Brutus's window?

Brutus says, 'I know no personal cause to spurn at him.' What motive does that reveal?

What does Portia's self-wounding prove in her argument with Brutus?

Why does Decius's interpretation of Calpurnia's dream succeed with Caesar?

Antony shakes the conspirators' bloody hands after the murder. What is he really doing?

When Cassius wants Antony killed too, how does Brutus answer?

How do Portia and Calpurnia function differently in the day-of-murder scenes?

At Philippi, Lucilius claims to be Brutus when captured. What relationship does that show?

'Beware the ides of March.' What is the line doing in Act 1?

'Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much.' What does Caesar reveal?

'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.' What is Cassius arguing?

'Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.' What does Caesar mean?

'Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar.' What does the line mark?

'Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.' How does Brutus defend the murder?

'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.' Where does this speech fall, and what does it do?

'The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.' What is Antony doing?

'This was the most unkindest cut of all.' What is Antony emphasizing?

'There is a tide in the affairs of men.' What choice is Brutus urging?

Antony repeats that 'Brutus is an honorable man' while proving the opposite. What device is this?

Brutus speaks first at the funeral and leaves Antony alone with the crowd. What craft effect does this create?

Brutus's orchard speech begins, 'It must be by his death.' What dramatic form is this private reasoning?

Caesar calls himself 'constant as the northern star' while the conspirators kneel around him. What is ironic?

The storm, the lion in the Capitol, and Calpurnia's dream form what craft pattern?

Why does Antony read Caesar's will after displaying the wounds?

The triumvirs' death-list scene follows the funeral chaos. What does this structure show?

Which statement best captures the play's conflict between honor and friendship?

What theme connects Caesar ignoring the soothsayer, Calpurnia's dream, and the augurers' sacrifice?

The crowd praises Brutus, then burns for revenge after Antony. What theme does that turn show?

What does Caesar's wounded body become during Antony's funeral speech?

Why is Cinna the poet's death important to the play's view of mob violence?

The ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus before Philippi. As a motif, what does it keep before the audience?

What theme is sharpened by Cassius saying fate is not in the stars and later dying from a mistaken report?

What does the repeated image of Caesar's blood on hands, swords, and mantle mainly track?

Caesar dies in Act 3, but the play continues through civil war. What does that structure emphasize?

Across the play, what makes Brutus a tragic hero rather than a simple villain?

Which contrast best sums up Cassius and Brutus as conspirators?

By the final scene at Philippi, what has the assassination achieved politically?

Why can the play be titled Julius Caesar even though Brutus speaks and struggles so much?