Macbeth Act2 Quotes

Question 1

Act 2 Scene1:
Banquo-> Fleance
Banquo couldn’t _____?

Answer 1

“And yet I would not sleep”

Question 2

Act 2 Scene1:
Banquo-> Macbeth
Banquo’s dream

Answer 2

“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:

To you that have show’ some truth,”

Question 3

Act2 Scene1:
Macbeth-> Banquo
Lies about witches

Answer 3

“I think not of them,”

Question 4

Act2 Scene1:

Macbeth soliloquy

Answer 4

“Is this a dagger which I see before me

The handle toward my hand?”

Question 5

Act2Scene1:

Macbeth’s silioquy

Answer 5

“Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

Question 6

Act2Scene2:
Lady Macbeth silioquy
Shows human nature

Answer 6

“Had he not resembled

My father as he slept I had done’t”

Question 7

Act2Scene2
Macbeth-> Lady Macbeth
Panicking about being possessed

Answer 7

“Amen stuck in my throat”

Question 8

Act2Scene2
Lady Macbeth-> Macbeth
Tells him to stop panicking

Answer 8

“It will make us mad,”

Question 9

Act2Scene2

Macbeth-> Lady Macbeth

Answer 9

“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!

Macbeth doth murder sleep’,”

Question 10

Act2Scene2:

Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth useless

Answer 10

'’Infirm of purpose!”

Question 11

Act2Scene2:

Macbeth says he doesn’t expect to ever stop feeling guilty

Answer 11

“Will all of Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?”

Question 12

Act2Scene2:

Lady macbeth takes Macbeth’s guilt metaphor literally

Answer 12

“A little water clears us of this deed,”

Question 13

Act2Scene2:

Macbeth plays dumb about Duncan sleeping

Answer 13

“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldn’t!”

Question 14

Act2Scene2:

Lennox tells Macbeth about how the natural world has been disrupted

Answer 14

“The night has been unruly: where we lay

Our chimneys were blown down,”

Question 15

Act2Scene2:

Macbeth laments Duncan’s death in front of everybody

Answer 15

“Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv’e a blessed time,”

Question 16

Act2Scene2:

Macbeth confesses to murdering chamberlains

Answer 16

“O! Yet I do repent me of my fury

That I did kill them,”

Question 17

Act2Scene2:

Donalbain tells Malcolm that they can’t feel safe in Scotland anymore

Answer 17

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles,”

Question 18

Act2Scene2:

Old man tells Ross that the natural world was in chaos

Answer 18

“A falcon, towering in her pride of place

Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d,”

Question 19

Act2Scene2:

Ross agrees with old man telling him his experience in the natural world’s turmoil

Answer 19

“And Duncan’s horses

Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out”

Question 20

Act2Scene2:

Ross curses ambition to Macduff

Answer 20

“Thrift less ambition, that wilt ravin up

Thine own life’s means!”

Question 21

Act2Scene2:

Macbeth hopes Ross good luck for the future

Answer 21

“Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”