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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Level: Grade 10
Tags: Critical Reading
Author: lewisela
Created: 9 years ago

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Grade 10 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Which is the best restatement of the following passage from Act I, Scene ii?
Men at some time are masters of their fates:[140]
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,(47)
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.(48)
                                                                                          
47.stars: destinies. The stars were thought to control people’s lives.
48.underlings: inferior people
                                                                                          
  1. It is not our destinies that are at fault, Brutus, it is that we have not acted strongly.
  2. Brutus, we blame our inferior selves when we should blame our destinies.
  3. Men’s flaws, Brutus, lie not in destiny, but in the inferior beings who control the flaws.
  4. Men can master their destinies up to a point, Brutus, but then we must bend.