Macbeth: Act 2

What is the significance of Lady Macbeth's line: "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white"?

• Lady M's hands are red from planting the daggers on the guards, but she claims that her heart is not as weak and remorseful as Macbeth's
• Lady Macbeth helped Macbeth kill King Duncan, so they both have blood on their hands

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Shakespeare chooses to include the scene with the Porter in scene 3 to demonstrate what?

• Foreshadowing
• Dramatic Irony
• Comic Relief
• Situational Irony

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How does Macbeth respond to Banquo bringing up the witches?

• He pretends not to be thinking about them and their prophecies
• He yells at Banquo and tells him to keep it down
• He eagerly starts talking about his plans to murder the King
• He asks if Banquo's children are in good health

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How do Malcolm and Donalbain react to their father's murder?

• They kill the guards
• They cry and curse his murderer
• Malcolm claims the throne, and Donalbain vows loyalty
• They flee, fearing for their own safety

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What is Banquo's son's name?

• Fleance

• Lennox

• Ross

• Angus

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What does Lady Macbeth need to do to summon Macbeth when she has got the guards drunk?

• Screech like an owl

• Come and fetch him

• Ring a bell

• Send a servant

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What does Macbeth initially blame his hallucination of a dagger on?

• His brain being too hot

• His heart becoming cold

• Stress

• Lysergic acid diethylamide

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While hallucinating, Macbeth starts ranting using a lexical field of black magic. Who does he name as the pale goddess of the witches?

• Hecate

• Nicneven

• Circe

• Diana

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Lady Macbeth had the chance to kill Duncan herself. What reason does she give for not doing it?

• She was still too feminine

• She was too drunk and noisy

• Duncan looked like her father

• She wanted Macbeth to be a man and do it himself.

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Macbeth starts ranting again following the murder. He uses a metaphor to describe what he has done. Finish the quote:

"Macbeth does murder ................."

• Duncan

• his King

• God

• Sleep

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