Acts 3 & 4

Question 1

What does Banquo say Macbeth has now?

Answer 1

‘Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t’

Question 2

What does Banquo say when he fears people are suspicious of him? ‘To be thus..

Answer 2

‘Is nothing but to be safely thus’

Question 3

The witches promised that Banquo would father kings. What does Macbeth say about this, leading him to consider his murder?

Answer 3

‘They hail’d him father to a line of kings: upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe’

Question 4

How does lady Macbeth say Macbeth must be among his guests?

Answer 4

‘Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night’

Question 5

What does Macbeth say his mind is full of?

Answer 5

‘Full of scorpions’

Question 6

What does Macbeth say to banquos ghost?

Answer 6

‘Never shake thy gory locks at me’

Question 7

Macbeth wonders how lady Macbeth can ‘keep the natural ruby’ of her cheeks, when..

Answer 7

‘When mine is blaunched with fear’

Question 8

Macbeth’s soliloquy about wading in blood

Answer 8

‘I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er’

Question 9

What do the witches predict about who can’t harm Macbeth?

Answer 9

‘for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth’

Question 10

Macbeth tells Lennox to kill who in macduffs family?

Answer 10

‘His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace Jim in his line’