Act 1 Scene 3

Question 1

Fair is foul

Answer 1

So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Question 2

Are you supernatural

Answer 2

‘Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 3

Women are men

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Witches prophecies

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.’ (Witches)

Question 5

Banquos prophecies

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Thane of cawdor traitor

Answer 6

‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

Question 7

Macbeth will become king. Better than his past

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Macbeth is weary of evil

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Macbeth wants to be king but does’nt want to act on it.

Answer 9

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)