Macbeth Mastery Test Review

In this excerpt from act III of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which rhetorical device is used in the underlined words?

MACBETH:

It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:

Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;

Augurs, and understood relations, have

By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth

The secret'st man of blood.—What is the night?

(act III, scene IV)

• biblical allusion

• apostrophe

• personification

• simile

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In act III of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which two statements correctly state the significance of the banquet scene?

• Macbeth’s degenerating mental state becomes apparent in this scene.

• Lady Macbeth‘s sleepwalking problem becomes evident in this scene.

• It becomes clear that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are no longer partners in crime.

• Macbeth realizes that the murderers were unable to kill Banquo because he was present at the banquet.

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Macbeth murders Duncan and becomes the king of Scotland. However, he is insecure in his position as he remembers the witches' prophecy that Banquo’s descendants will be kings. His ambition makes him plot other killings, but his plans start going awry.

Which event is the turning point in Macbeth?

• the murder of Duncan

• the murder of Banquo

• the murder of the guards

• the murder of Macduff’s family

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Which theme is used in this excerpt from act I of Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

LADY MACBETH:

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

May read strange matters:—to beguile the time,

Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't,

• kingship

• appearance versus reality

• fate versus free will

• power and tyranny

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In this excerpt from act II of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which figure of speech is used in the underlined words?

MACBETH:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:—

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw...

(act II, scene I)

• personification

• apostrophe

• allusion

• hyperbole

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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are partners in the murder of Duncan, and both become victims of guilt.

In which two ways does their guilt manifest itself?

• lack of appetite

• hallucinations

• exhaustion

• inability to sleep/sleepwalking

Which lines in this excerpt from act III of Shakespeare’s Macbeth refer to Macbeth’s insecurity because of the threats to his kingship?

MACBETH:

¹We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it;

She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice

Remains in danger of her former tooth.

But let the frame of things disjoint,

⁵Both the worlds suffer,

Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep

In the affliction of these terrible dreams

That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,

Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,

¹⁰Than on the torture of the mind to lie

In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;

Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,

Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,

¹⁵Can touch him further.

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In this excerpt from act IV of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, identify two biblical allusions.

• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,

  Was once thought honest: you have loved him well;

• To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb

  To appease an angry god.

• A good and virtuous nature may recoil

  In an imperial charge

• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell:

Read the adapted excerpt from act I of Shakespeare's Macbeth and complete the question.

MACBETH:

I am Thane of Cawdor:

If good, why do I yield to that suggestion

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,

Against the use of nature? Present fears

Are less than horrible imaginings;

My thought, a crime is but fantastical,

Shakes so my single state of man that function

Is smothered in surmise, nothing is

But what is not.

This excerpt is part of a soliloquy that reveals Macbeth's ______________.

• inner conflict

• passionate nature

• unscrupulous nature

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Read the adapted excerpt from act I of Shakespeare's Macbeth and complete the question.

MACBETH:

I am Thane of Cawdor:

If good, why do I yield to that suggestion

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,

Against the use of nature? Present fears

Are less than horrible imaginings;

My thought, a crime is but fantastical,

Shakes so my single state of man that function

Is smothered in surmise, nothing is

But what is not.

He is hesitant to go ahead with the crime. The last line refers to the theme of __________________.

• fate versus free will

• appearance versus reality

• power and tyranny

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