act 2

Question 1

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?

Answer 1

2, 1, 33-34

Question 2

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain’d sleep. Witchcraft celebrates

Answer 2

2, 1, 50-51

Question 3

This is a sorry sight.
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.

Answer 3

2, 2, 23-24

Question 4

‘Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,

Answer 4

2, 2, 38-39

Question 5

My hands are of your colour, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.

Answer 5

2, 2, 67-68

Question 6

The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down

Answer 6

2, 3, 49-50

Question 7

Here lay Duncan,
His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood
And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature,
For ruin’s wasteful entrance

Answer 7

2, 3, 107-109

Question 8

What happens in act 2 scene 1

Answer 8

Macbeth sees Banquo and warns him to take his side. Macbeth has visions of a dagger. He hesitates but kills Duncan.

Question 9

What happens in act 2 scene 2

Answer 9

Macbeth meets Lady Macbeth and he feels guilty but she tells him to brush it off. Lady Macbeth says she would’ve killed Duncan if he didn’t look like her dad.

Question 10

What happens in act 2 scene 3

Answer 10

The house finds out Duncan is dead and Macbeth puts on a show by praising and mourning him.

Question 11

What happens in act 2 scene 4

Answer 11

Ross and his dad discuss unnatural events that happened and that Macbeth will be king. They suspect Duncan’s sons as they fled.