Act 1, Sc 3-4

Question 1

(Macbeth) talks about how the day is, links to witches

Answer 1

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Question 2

(Banquo) asks question

Answer 2

Live you, or are you aught
That man may question

Question 3

(Banquo) asks if the witches are women

Answer 3

you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’

Question 4

(Witches) predicting what titles Macbeth will have

Answer 4

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’

Question 5

(Witches) Banquo’s prophecy

Answer 5

Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

Question 6

(Ross) Macbeth getting new title

Answer 6

He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’

Question 7

(Macbeth) talking to him self about the witches prophecy

Answer 7

Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind

Question 8

(Madbeth) the witches are evil

Answer 8

.(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good

Question 9

(Macbeth) he needs to intefer to get a new title

Answer 9

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir

Question 10

(Duncan) macbeth is family or respected

Answer 10

worthiest cousin

Question 11

(Macbeth) he owes something

Answer 11

The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself

Question 12

(Macbeth) Macbeth finds out malcom is heir

Answer 12

The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap

Question 13

(Macbeth) is thinking about bad things

Answer 13

Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires