Macbeth - General Review

What is the key quote from the witches at the start of the play?

• All is fair in love and war

• Fairness and love are not found in war

• Double double toil and trouble

• Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Macbeth is first presented to readers by how his peers and king see him. What word is used to describe him at the start?

• loyal

• brave

• traitor

• violent

In one of the witches' prophecies they refer to him as "king hereafter." What does "hereafter" mean?

• in the future

• here and now

• right away

• tomorrow

Who is the traitor at the start of the play?

• the Thane of Fife

• the Thane of Glamis

• the Thane of Cawdor

• the king of Norway

How does Lady Macduff persuade Macbeth to kill King Duncan?

• She promises to treat him very well in the future

• She verbally mocks him and attacks his manhood

• She suggests that she would rather be married to Banquo

• She argues that this was really his idea

Why doesn't Lady Macbeth go through with her original plan to kill King Duncan?

• she says he looked too much like her father

• she says she can't because he is really her father

• she says her father will kill her if he finds out

• she says the witches told her not to

Which quote below suggests that they both have to make their faces like masks to hide how they truly think and feel?

• Fair is foul and foul is fair

• This castle hath a pleasant seat

• False face must hide what the false heart doth know

• Screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail

In which quote below does Macbeth indicate that he is ready to go along with Lady Macbeth's plan to kill the king?

• His virtues will plead like angels...against the deep damnation of his taking-off

• But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'll jump the life to come

• Bring forth men-children only

• I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.

Which of the following indicate Macbeth's dwindling mental state?

• the raven croaking, the smell of blood on his hands, his desire to kill Banquo and Fleance

• his seeing a floating dagger, his thinking he heard someone say "sleep no more, Macbeth doth murder sleep," and his seeing the ghost of Banquo at the banquet

• his hearing a bell, his talking to himself about angels, his acting weird at the banquet

• his writing to his wife just after meeting the witches, his forgetting to put the daggers back with the sleeping guards, his hiring of murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance

Due to his paranoia, Macbeth has done what?

• refused to put the daggers back by the guards

• kept a servant fee'd in every house

• decided to ignore his wife

• started doing yoga

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