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Question 15 • English 3

Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar , act 1, scene 2. CASCA: I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it. It was mere foolery, I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown—yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets—and, as I told (245) you he put it by once; but, for all that, to my thinking he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again; then he put it by again— but to my thinking he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third (250) time; he put it the third time by. And still as he refused it, the rabblement hooted, and clapped their chapped hands, and threw up their sweaty nightcaps and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked (260) Caesar; for he swooned and fell down at it. And for mine own part, I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. Which senses does this excerpt appeal to? Choose three correct answers.

Answer
A
sound: "the rabblement hooted"
B
sight: "swooned and fell down"
C
taste: "I durst not laugh"
D
smell: "I can as well be hanged"
E
touch: "chapped hands"
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