The Fall of Julius Caesar

Question 1

support or oppose

Answer 1

• army
• poor
• supporters of a republic
• other in power

Question 2

soothsayer

Answer 2

• fortune teller in Rome: “beware… the Ides of March…”

- Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, begged him not to go to the Senate. She had had a nightmare that he would be murdered.

Question 3

murder on the Senate floor

Answer 3

• 15 March 44 B.C.
• Brutus and Cassius lead 60 senators
• senators stab Caesar to death
• at least 23 times

Question 4

Brutus

Answer 4

• Caesar says to his friend: “you, too, my child.”