act 3, scene 4: banquet scene (banquo's ghost)

Question 1

from “i’th’ [1]” to “the table’s [2]” upon hearing fleance has escaped but banquo is dead in a ditch

Answer 1

[1] - middle
[2] - full

Question 2

“never [1] thy [2] locks at me”

Answer 2

[1] - shake
[2] - gory

Question 3

(LM) “are you a [1]?”

Answer 3

[1] - man

(LM’s main method of pulling Macbeth out of his ‘fit’ is by shaming him with her contemptuous comments)

Question 4

(LM) “sit, [1] friends, my lord is often [2], and hath been from his [3].”

Answer 4

[1] - worthy
[2] - thus
[3] - youth

Question 5

(LM) “authoriz’d by her [1]. [2] itself!”

Answer 5

[1] - gramdam
[2] - shame

(fearful of an old wives’ tale)

Question 6

(LM) “[1], for shame!”

Answer 6

[1] - fie

Question 7

“what man [1], I [2]. [3] thou like the rugged [4] [5], the arm’d [6], or th’ [7] [8]”

Answer 7

[1] - dare
[2] - dare
[3] - approach
[4] - russian
[5] - bear
[6] - rhinoceros
[7] - hyrcan
[8] - tiger

Question 8

(LM) “you have [1] the mirth, broke the good [2].”

Answer 8

[1] - displac’d
[2] - meeting

Question 9

“natural [1] of your cheeks” vs. macbeth’s being “blanch’d with [2]”

Answer 9

[1] - ruby
[2] - fear

(he can’t understand how everyone is so calm)

Question 10

“it will have [1]; they say [2] will have [3].”

Answer 10

[1] - blood
[2] - blood
[3] - blood

(consequences)

Question 11

(LM) “you lack the [1] of all [2], [3].”

Answer 11

[1] - season
[2] - nature
[3] - sleep

Question 12

“[1] are yet but [2] in [3].”

Answer 12

[1] - we*
[2] - young
[3] - deed

*(royal ‘we’; traditionally used by a sovereign - LM is no longer part of his plan)
- deteriorating relationship