Deck 1

Question 1

1 What chant do the witches say that is echoed in Macbeth’s first words?

Answer 1

Fair is foul, and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air

Question 2

2. What does King Duncan say about Banquo, when they come back from the fight?

Answer 2

Noble Banquo,

That hast no less deserv’d.

Question 3

3. What does L. M. Say to the spirits about her desire to erode her humanity?

Answer 3

Come, you spirits, unsex me here.

Question 4

4. What does she say about his courage?

Answer 4

Screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail.

Question 5

5. ‘These _____ must not be thought so it will make us _____.’ Foreshadowing…

Answer 5

These deeds must not be thought, so it will make us mad.

Question 6

6. Narrator to set an ominous mood.

Answer 6

[The battlefield: thunder and lightning]

Question 7

7. What premodifier does Duncan use to describe Macbeth?

Answer 7

Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name.

Question 8

8. What Hyperbolic imagery does Macbeth use when referring to his hands never being clean again after he has killed the king?

Answer 8

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 9

9. What does L. M. say that Macbeth is too full of when she receives his letter about the witches’ prophesy.

Answer 9

Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’the milk of human kindness.

Question 10

10. What does Macduff say when Macbeth tells him that he regrets killing the king’s drunken chamberlains?

Answer 10

Blood will have blood

Question 11

11. What reasons does he have for killing Duncan?

Answer 11

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.

Question 12

12. Macbeth says this to the witches after he has seen Banquo’s ghost at the banquet when he is desperate to know if his descendents will become kings?

Answer 12

Deny me this and an eternal curse fall on you. Let me know.

Question 13

13. ‘I will not be _______ of _______ and bane, Till __________ come to Dunsinane.’

Answer 13

I will not be afraid of death and bane,

Till Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane.

Question 14

14. Macduff says this when he takes his head off.

Answer 14

Behold Th’usurper’s cursed head.

Question 15

15. What does Macduff compare Macbeth to when he is talking with Malcolm in Act 4?

Answer 15

Not in the legions
Of horrid hell can come a devil more
Damn’d in evils to stop Macbeth.

Question 16

16. What does Macduff say when Macbeth tells him that he regrets killing the king’s drunken chamberlains?

Answer 16

Wherefore did you so?

Question 17

17. What does Macbeth says about the silence of nature?

Answer 17

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep.

Question 18

18. What hyperbolic metaphor does Lady Macbeth use when she claims that she can still smell blood on her hands?

Answer 18

Perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!

Question 19

19. Lady Macbeth says this near the end of the play when she regrets what has happened, ‘What’s done………………’?

Answer 19

What’s done cannot be undone.

Question 20

20. What does Macbeth say immediately after the witches have left after making their first predictions?

Answer 20

Would they had stay’d.