VHD MB ACT 3 QUIZS2025

“Let your remembrance / Apply to Banquo” means:

• Forget Banquo

• Distract Banquo

• Show Banquo special attention

• Report Banquo to the king

ACT 3 Scene 2

What does Lady Macbeth want to speak to the King about?

• Banquo’s loyalty

• Her guilt

• Why he is keeping alone.

• A warning about Macduff

What action does Macbeth hint at but not directly tell Lady Macbeth?

"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
 Till thou applaud the deed.—"

• Having Banquo and Fleance killed

• Fleeing the kingdom

• Killing himself

• Burning the castle

What is Macbeth referring to when he says “we have scorched the snake, not killed it”?

• Duncan is not truly dead

• Their troubles are not over

• Lady Macbeth betrayed him

• Banquo is no longer a threat

What does Macbeth plan to have done before the banquet that night?

• Flee

• Speak with Banquo

• Have thugs commit murder for him.

• Attend the banquet

Does Lady Macbeth know about Macbeth's plot to murder Banquo?

• Yes
• No

What request does Lady Macbeth make of the servant at the beginning of the passage?

LADY MACBETH  Is Banquo gone from court?
SERVANT 
 Ay, madam, but returns again tonight.
LADY MACBETH 
 Say to the King I would attend his leisure
 For a few words.
SERVANT  5Madam, I will.He exits.
LADY MACBETH  Naught’s had, all’s spent,
 Where our desire is got without content.
 ’Tis safer to be that which we destroy
 Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

• To prepare a meal for Banquo

• To summon Macbeth for a conversation

• To bring her a candle

• To call for the thugs at the gate

What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth about the past?

• Change it

• Seek forgiveness

• Don't think about it

• Confess

What does this passage mean?

"Tis safer to be that which we destroy /

Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."

• It is better to be destroyed than to be the destoyer.

• It is safer to be a dead victim than to be the murderer who lives in constant fear and anxiety.

• Joy is doubtful when you have killed someone.

• We are safer since we destroyed our doubtful joy.

Which translation is the most accurate to the following statement:

"Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, then 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; not steel not poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."

• We killed men to get our own peace. Now, Duncan is dead and nothing can hurt him anymore.

• We only get peace from killing men now. Duncan may be in his grave, but threats around us still exist.

• The only thing that gives me peace now a days is killing the people in my way. Duncan is dead, but now I have so many more tools.

• The death that I steals my peace is Duncan's. After his death, nothing satisfies my cravings.