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Question 1

Where shall we three meet again?

Answer 1

Where shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain?

Act 1

Question 2

What does ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ mean?

Answer 2

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair hover through the fog and the filthy air.’

Act 1

Question 3

What is Macbeth’s intent?

Answer 3

‘No spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.’

Act 1

Question 4

What must Macbeth hide?

Answer 4

‘False face must hide what false heart doth know.’

Act 1

Question 5

What does Lady Macbeth ask to be unsexed?

Answer 5

‘Unsex me here spirits, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.’

Act 1

Question 6

What does Lady Macbeth want to turn her milk into?

Answer 6

‘Take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.’

Act 1

Question 7

How should one appear according to Lady Macbeth?

Answer 7

‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t.’

Act 1

Question 8

Why is the king killed offscreen?

Answer 8

Because it is so horrendous a crime that the audience of the time couldn’t handle it.

Act 2

Question 9

What does Macbeth see before him?

Answer 9

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me touch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.’

Act 2

Question 10

What do the witches warn Macbeth about?

Answer 10

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.

Act 4

Question 11

What is said about those born of a woman?

Answer 11

‘Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.’

Act 4

Question 12

When will Macbeth be vanquished?

Answer 12

‘Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Burnham Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.’

Act 4

Question 13

What does Macduff call Macbeth?

Answer 13

‘Turn hell-hound, turn!’

Act 5

Question 14

What is the title of the book written by James I?

Answer 14

Daemonologie

Question 15

What is hamartia?

Answer 15

The fatal flaw of a hero or heroine, Macbeth.

Question 16

What is peripeteia?

Answer 16

It is the moment of realization, it happens for Macbeth when he reflects on the killing of Duncan.

Question 17

What is hubris?

Answer 17

Exaggerated pride of self-confidence.

Question 18

What is catharsis?

Answer 18

Tragedy set out to stir up feelings of fear and pity in the audience.

Question 19

What is anagnorisis?

Answer 19

The point in a play in which a principal character (Macbeth) recognizes the true nature of their own circumstances.

Question 20

What type of technique is symbolism?

Answer 20

It is a language technique.

Question 21

What does Duncan say about Macbeth’s loss?

Answer 21

‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.’

Act 1

Question 22

What do the instruments of darkness do?

Answer 22

‘To win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence.’

Act 1

Question 23

What does Macbeth say about the prince of Cumberland?

Answer 23

‘The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down.’

Act 1

Question 24

What does Lady Macbeth fear about Macbeth’s nature?

Answer 24

‘Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.’

Act 1

Question 25

What does Lady Macbeth want to turn her milk into?

Answer 25

'Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall.' ## Footnote Act 1

Question 26

What does Lady Macbeth challenge Macbeth about?

Answer 26

'When you durst do it, then you were a man.' ## Footnote Act 1

Question 27

What does Lady Macbeth ask the merciful powers?

Answer 27

'Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 28

What does Macbeth question about the dagger?

Answer 28

'Art thou but a dagger of the mind?' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 29

What does Macbeth say after committing the deed?

Answer 29

'I have done the deed.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 30

What does Macbeth say about murder and sleep?

Answer 30

'Glamis doth murder sleep; therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 31

What does Macbeth say about the daggers?

Answer 31

'Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 32

What does Macbeth ask about Neptune's ocean?

Answer 32

'Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 33

What does Lady Macbeth say about water?

Answer 33

'A little water clears us of this deed.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 34

What does Macbeth exclaim in horror?

Answer 34

'O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 35

What does Macbeth say about wisdom?

Answer 35

'Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 36

What does Macbeth say about his hands?

Answer 36

'My hands are of your colour.' ## Footnote Act 2

Question 37

What does Banquo fear about Macbeth?

Answer 37

'I fear Thou played’st most foully for ’t.' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 38

What does Macbeth say about his crown?

Answer 38

'Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown.' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 39

What does Macbeth say about the past?

Answer 39

'What’s done is done.' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 40

What does Macbeth say about his mind?

Answer 40

'Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 41

What does Macbeth say to Lady Macbeth?

Answer 41

'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 42

What does Macbeth say about the gory locks?

Answer 42

'Thou canst not say I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me.' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 43

What does Lady Macbeth ask Macbeth?

Answer 43

'Are you a man?' ## Footnote Act 3

Question 44

What does Macbeth declare?

Answer 44

'I am a man again.' ## Footnote Act 3