Act 1

Question 1

Act 1 scene 1

“Fair is foul;and foul is fair”~the witches

Answer 1

~things that are pretty will become ugly
~theme:appearnces vs reality ~this theme is developed further throughout the play
~everything isn’t what it seems

Question 2

Act 1 scene 2

“For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name “

Answer 2

~good impression of him before we meet him

Question 3

Act 1 scene 2

“Like valour’s minion , carved out his passage”

Answer 3

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Question 4

Act 1 scene 2

Captain:

“Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops”

Answer 4

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Question 5

Act 1 scene 2

“And fixed his head upon our battlements”

Answer 5

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Question 6

Act 1 scene 2

Captain:
“As cannons overcharged with double cracks”

“Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe”

Answer 6

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Question 7

Act 1 scene 2

“Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof”

Answer 7

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Question 8

Act 1 scene 2

Duncan:

“No more than than thane in f Cawdor shall deceive”

“Our bosom interest”

Answer 8

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Question 9

Act 1 scene 2

Duncan:

“What he hath lost , noble Macbeth had won”

Answer 9

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Question 10

Act 1 , scene 3

First witch:

“I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow , And the quarters that they know”

Answer 10

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Question 11

Act 1 scene 3

“I’th’ shipman’s card”

Answer 11

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Question 12

Act 1 scene 3

“I’ll drain him dry as hay”

Answer 12

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Question 13

Act 1 scene 3

First witch :

“Sleep shall neither night or day .Hang upon his penthouse lid”

Answer 13

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Question 14

Act 1 scene 3

First witch:

“He shall live a man forbid. Weary sennights nine times nine, Shall he dwindle , peak , and pine”

Answer 14

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Question 15

Act 1 scene 3

“Though his barks cannot be lost , Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.Look what I have”

Answer 15

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Question 16

Act 1 scene 3

“So foul and fair a day I have not Seen”

Answer 16

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Question 17

Act 1 scene 3

First witch:”lesser than Macbeth , and greater”

Second witch:”Not so happy, yet much happier”

Answer 17

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Question 18

Act 1 scene 3

Macbeth

“Stay , you imperfect speakers”

Answer 18

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Question 19

Act 1 scene 3

Macbeth:

“Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence”

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Question 20

Act 1 scene 3

“Speak , I charge you”

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Question 21

Act 1 scene 3

Banquo:

“Whither are they vanished”

Answer 21

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Question 22

Act 1 scene 3

Banquo:

“Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the island root, That takes the reason prisoner?”

Answer 22

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Question 23

Act 1 scene 3

Banquo:

“And oftentimes , to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths ,Win us with honest trifles , to betray’s In deepest consequence”

Answer 23

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Question 24

Act 1 scene 3

Macbeth

“This supernatural soliciting, Cannot be ill , cannot be good.If I’ll , commencing in a truth?”

“If good , why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth undix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs”

Answer 24

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Question 25

Act 1 scene 4

Duncan:

“There’s no art .To find the mind’s. construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust”

Answer 25

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Question 26

Act 1 scene 4

Macbeth:

“Stars hide your fires let not see my black and deep desires”
“The eye wink at the hand .Yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done , to see”

Answer 26

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Question 27

Act 1 scene 4

Duncan:

“He is full so valiant”

“It is a peerless kinsman”

Answer 27

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Question 28

Act 1 ,scene 5:

Lady Macbeth:

“Yet do I fear they nature , It is too full o’h’milk of human kindness”

Answer 28

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Question 29

Act 1 scene 5

“Come you spirits That tend in mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty”

Answer 29

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Question 30

Act 1 scene 6

Duncan:

“Honoured hostess!”

Answer 30

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Question 31

Act 1 scene 6

Lady Macbeth:

“Against those honours and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house:”

Answer 31

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Question 32

Act 1 scene 7

Macbeth:

“If it were done .tis done , then ‘twere well done quickly”

Answer 32

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Question 33

Act 1 scene 7

“If th’assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease , success, that but this blow might be-all and the end-all”

Answer 33

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Question 34

Act 1 scene 7

Macbeth:

“But in these cases , we still have judgement here that we but teach Bloody instructions , which being taught , return to plague th’inventor.This even handed justice commends th’ingredirence of our poisoned chalice to our lips”

Answer 34

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Question 35

Act 1 scene 7

Macbeth:

“He’s here in double trust:First , as I am his kinsman and his subject , strong both against the deed;then ,as his host , Who should against his murder shut the door, Nor bear the knife myself”

Answer 35

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Question 36

Act 1 scene 7

Macbeth:

“Besides , this Duncan Hath borne his facilities so meek , hath been So clear in his great office , that his virtues will plead like angles , trumpet-tongues against The deep damnation of his taking-off”

Answer 36

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Question 37

Act 1, scene 7

Macbeth:

“I have no spur, To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaultibg ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other”

Answer 37

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Question 38

Act 1 scene 7

Lady Macbeth:

“Was the Hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?From this time , such I account thy love”

Answer 38

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Question 39

Act 1 scene 7

“I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:I would, while it was smiling in my face , Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out , had I so sworn As you have done to this”

Answer 39

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Question 40

Act 1 , scene 7

“When we have marked with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber and used their very daggers, That they have done’t”

Answer 40

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