Julius Caesar Revising Practice 1 & A1S1 Questions

What change, if any, should be made in sentence 1?

• Change real to really

• Insert a comma after Caesar

• Change run to runs

• Make no change

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 2 and 3?

• One conflict is between the commoners and the nobles, while another conflict is the conflict between those who support Caesar and those who do not support Caesar.

• One conflict is between the commoners and the nobles; those who support Caesar and those who do not support him is another conflict.

• One conflict is between the nobles and the commoners; another is between those who support Caesar and those who do not.

• One conflict is between the commoners and the nobles, those supporting Caesar and those not supporting him.

Which of these sentences could be added to the end of the first paragraph to support the ideas in the paragraph?

• Shakespeare's England and Rome were alike in many ways, not just politically and socially.

• Like the characters in Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's countrymen fought, often along class lines, about issues of leadership.

• There were also commoners and noblemen in Shakespeare's day.

• Furthermore, Shakespeare knew that his audience was not interested in the conflicts in ancient Rome.

What change should be made in sentence 5?

• Insert a comma after them

• Insert a comma after home

• Omit the word also

• Change idle to Idle

What is the most effective way to improve the organization of the second paragraph (sentences 5-9)?

• Delete sentence 5

• Move sentence 7 so that it follows sentence 5

• Move sentence 7 to the end of the paragraph

• Move sentence 9 to the beginning of the paragraph

what change, if any, should be made in sentence 10?

• Change way to ways

• Insert a comma after because

• Change penaltys to penalties

• Make no change

What change should be made in sentence 14?

• Change are going to had been going?

• Change celebrate to celabrate

• Insert a comma after triumph

• Change Caesars to Caesar's

What is the most effective way to improve the organization of the fourth paragraph (sentences 14-19)

• Omit sentence 17

• Move sentence 16 to the beginning of the paragraph

• Move sentence 19 to the beginning of the paragraph

• Move sentence 14 so that it follows sentence 18

What change should be made in sentence 19

• Change this to those

• Change were to was

• Change Shakespeare's to Shakespears

• Change than to then

What is the most effective way to rewrite sentence 20?

• Between the commoners and the noblemen, the conflicts arise from both the social and political differences in Julius Caesar, which does not excuse the open contempt with which the noblemen treat the commoners.

• Treating the commoners with open contempt because of the social and political differences in Julius Caesar does not excuse the noblemen in the conflicts

• The conflicts between the commoners and the noblemen in Julius Caesar are based on social and political differences; however, this does not excuse the open contempt with which the noblemen treat the commoners.

• Not excusing the noblemen's open contempt for the commoners, the conflicts in Julius Caesar are based on the social and political differences between the commoners and the noblemen