Here’s a collection of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with answers based on William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:

1. Who warns Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March"?
a) Brutus
b) A soothsayer
c) Cassius
d) Calpurnia
Answer: b) A soothsayer

2. Why does Caesar decide to go to the Senate despite warnings?
a) He believes he is invincible
b) Calpurnia persuades him to go
c) Decius reinterprets Calpurnia's dream to flatter him
d) Brutus assures him of safety
Answer: c) Decius reinterprets Calpurnia's dream to flatter him

3. What is Brutus’s reason for joining the conspiracy?
a) He hates Caesar
b) He wants to protect Rome from tyranny
c) Cassius manipulates him
d) He wants to gain political power
Answer: b) He wants to protect Rome from tyranny

4. What does Caesar’s will leave to the Roman citizens?
a) His estate
b) Money and access to his private gardens
c) His title as emperor
d) Nothing
Answer: b) Money and access to his private gardens

5. What role does Mark Antony play in Caesar’s funeral?
a) He incites the crowd against the conspirators
b) He defends Brutus and the conspirators
c) He announces Caesar’s successor
d) He remains neutral
Answer: a) He incites the crowd against the conspirators

6. What is Cassius’s primary motivation for conspiring against Caesar?
a) He is jealous of Caesar’s power
b) He believes in the Republic
c) He follows Brutus’s lead
d) He fears Caesar’s ambition
Answer: a) He is jealous of Caesar’s power

7. What omens appear before Caesar’s assassination?
a) A lion in the Capitol, lightning, and a soothsayer’s warning
b) A blood-red moon and wolves howling
c) A solar eclipse and falling stars
d) Birds circling the Senate
Answer: a) A lion in the Capitol, lightning, and a soothsayer’s warning

8. What is the turning point of the play?
a) Caesar’s assassination
b) Antony’s funeral speech
c) Brutus’s decision to join the conspiracy
d) The battle at Philippi
Answer: b) Antony’s funeral speech

9. What is Brutus’s fatal flaw?
a) His ambition
b) His jealousy of Caesar
c) His naivety and idealism
d) His loyalty to Cassius
Answer: c) His naivety and idealism

10. How does the play Julius Caesar end?
a) Antony and Octavius become rulers of Rome
b) Brutus and Cassius die in battle
c) Brutus commits suicide, and Antony honors him as the "noblest Roman of them all"
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above

11. Who is the first to stab Caesar?

a) Brutus
b) Cassius
c) Casca
d) Decius
Answer: c) Casca

12. What was Calpurnia’s dream?
a) Caesar’s statue spouting blood, with Romans bathing their hands in it
b) Caesar’s crown falling from his head
c) A storm destroying Rome
d) Caesar speaking from beyond the grave
Answer: a) Caesar’s statue spouting blood, with Romans bathing their hands in it

13. What does Antony repeatedly call the conspirators during his funeral speech?
a) Murderers
b) Betrayers of Rome
c) Honorable men
d) Tyrants
Answer: c) Honorable men

14. How does Portia, Brutus’s wife, die?
a) She is executed by Antony
b) She commits suicide by swallowing hot coals
c) She is killed during the battle
d) She dies of grief
Answer: b) She commits suicide by swallowing hot coals

15. Who forms the Second Triumvirate?
a) Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus
b) Brutus, Cassius, and Casca
c) Caesar, Brutus, and Antony
d) Octavius, Cassius, and Decius
Answer: a) Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus

16. Which character delivers the famous line, "Et tu, Brute?"
a) Caesar
b) Antony
c) Brutus
d) Cassius
Answer: a) Caesar

17. How does Brutus justify Caesar’s assassination to the Roman people?
a) He says Caesar was too ambitious
b) He claims Caesar was planning to conquer Rome
c) He argues Caesar was too beloved by the people
d) He explains Caesar’s tyranny was endangering Rome
Answer: a) He says Caesar was too ambitious

18. What is the relationship between Brutus and Caesar?
a) Brothers-in-law
b) Friends and confidants
c) Nephew and uncle
d) They are not related
Answer: b) Friends and confidants

19. What does Caesar say about the cowardice of the people in Act 3, Scene 1?
a) "Cowards die many times before their deaths"
b) "It is not the Romans, but the Senate that is corrupted"
c) "Better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life"
d) "Let me have men about me that are fat"
Answer: a) "Cowards die many times before their deaths"

20. Who is the last to join the conspiracy against Caesar?
a) Cassius
b) Brutus
c) Decius
d) Casca
Answer: b) Brutus

21. How does the crowd react after Brutus’s speech?
a) They demand the death of the conspirators
b) They proclaim Brutus their new leader
c) They are indifferent and confused
d) They riot and overthrow the Senate
Answer: b) They proclaim Brutus their new leader

22. What does Caesar’s ghost symbolize in the play?
a) The consequences of ambition
b) The inevitable fate of tyrants
c) The guilt of Brutus and the conspirators
d) The prophecy of Rome’s downfall
Answer: c) The guilt of Brutus and the conspirators

23. What is the primary theme of Julius Caesar?
a) The clash between good and evil
b) The dangers of ambition and power
c) The pursuit of love
d) The relationship between fathers and sons
Answer: b) The dangers of ambition and power

24. What is the significance of the Ides of March in the play?
a) It marks Caesar’s rise to power
b) It is the day Caesar is assassinated
c) It is the day Brutus returns to Rome
d) It symbolizes the fall of the Roman Republic
Answer: b) It is the day Caesar is assassinated

25. Who says the line, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"?
a) Cassius
b) Brutus
c) Caesar
d) Antony
Answer: a) Cassius

26. What does the "lean and hungry" look that Caesar refers to in Act 1, Scene 2 imply?
a) A physical appearance of hunger
b) A sign of ambition and envy
c) The appearance of loyal citizens
d) A warning of an approaching war
Answer: b) A sign of ambition and envy

27. What is the name of Brutus’s wife?
a) Calpurnia
b) Portia
c) Julia
d) Octavia
Answer: b) Portia

28. What does Antony repeatedly refer to Caesar as in his funeral speech?
a) A martyr
b) A great conqueror
c) A "noble" and "honorable" man
d) A ruler who deserved his fate
Answer: c) A "noble" and "honorable" man

29. Which character delivers the famous speech, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"?
a) Brutus
b) Antony
c) Cassius
d) Octavius
Answer: b) Antony

30. How does the play portray the role of fate in the lives of its characters?
a) Fate is always controllable by human action
b) The characters' actions shape their destinies
c) The play is indifferent to the concept of fate
d) Characters are doomed by their actions, despite their intentions
Answer: d) Characters are doomed by their actions, despite their intentions

31. Who is the first to warn Caesar about the Ides of March?

a) Soothsayer
b) Artemidorus
c) Brutus
d) Calpurnia

Answer: a) Soothsayer

32. What is Caesar's reaction to the Soothsayer's warning?

a) He ignores it
b) He is scared and runs away
c) He thanks the Soothsayer for the warning
d) He asks the Soothsayer to leave

Answer: a) He ignores it

32. Who convinces Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar?

a) Casca
b) Cassius
c) Decius
d) Mark Antony

Answer: b) Cassius

33. What is the reason Brutus gives for participating in Caesar’s assassination?

a) To avenge his father's death
b) To protect the Roman Republic
c) To seek power for himself
d) To follow the will of the gods

Answer: b) To protect the Roman Republic

34. What is Caesar's last word before he dies?

a) "Et tu, Brute?"
b) "Veni, vidi, vici"
c) "The die is cast"
d) "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

Answer: a) "Et tu, Brute?"

35. What happens to Caesar’s will after his assassination?

a) It is destroyed by the conspirators
b) It is read out to the public by Mark Antony
c) It is kept secret by Brutus
d) It is burned in the Senate

Answer: b) It is read out to the public by Mark Antony

36. Who delivers the famous speech beginning with "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"?

a) Brutus
b) Mark Antony
c) Cassius
d) Octavius

Answer: b) Mark Antony

37. What does the ghost of Caesar tell Brutus?

a) To flee Rome
b) To take revenge on the conspirators
c) That Caesar will be avenged
d) That Brutus is a coward

Answer: c) That Caesar will be avenged

38. What is the result of the battle at Philippi?

a) Brutus and Cassius are defeated and die
b) Caesar's followers win
c) Brutus and Cassius successfully overthrow the government
d) Mark Antony is killed

Answer: a) Brutus and Cassius are defeated and die

39. Who takes charge of Rome after Caesar's death?

a) Brutus
b) Octavius
c) Mark Antony
d) Cassius

Answer: b) Octavius