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WorksheetsLady Macbeth Quotes Act 1 and 2
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 6mins
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1.
Lady Macbeth is concerned that Macbeth is too "good" to murder King Duncan.
a)
Yet do I fear thy nature
b)
Are you a man?
c)
Infirm of purpose!
d)
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose
2.
Lady Macbeth is concerned that Macbeth is too "good" to murder King Duncan.
a)
too full o' th' milk of human kindness
b)
This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger . . . A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
c)
The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
d)
Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall
3.
Lady Macbeth is concerned that Macbeth is too "good" to murder King Duncan.
a)
Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it
b)
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
c)
My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
d)
pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
4.
Lady Macbeth is concerned that Macbeth is too "good" to murder King Duncan.
a)
What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily
b)
Yet here’s a spot. . .Out, damned spot!
c)
A little water clears us of this deed.
d)
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters.
5.
Lady Macbeth plans to manipulate Macbeth in to killing King Duncan.
a)
pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue
b)
Hell is murky!
c)
Naught’s had, all’s spent, here our desire is got without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
d)
Look like th' innocent flower, <br />But be the serpent under ’t
6.
Lady Macbeth wants to have her feminine qualities replaced with masculine ones.
a)
unsex me here
b)
who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
c)
Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done.
d)
Was the hope drunk . . . And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
7.
Lady Macbeth calls on dark powers.
a)
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts
b)
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
c)
Are you a man?
d)
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
8.
Lady Macbeth wants to have her feminine qualities replaced with masculine ones.
a)
fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
b)
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
c)
This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger . . . A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!
d)
What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man;
9.
Lady Macbeth wants to have her feminine qualities replaced with masculine ones.
a)
Make thick my blood
b)
What’s done cannot be undone.
c)
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
d)
I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
10.
Lady Macbeth wants to have her feminine qualities replaced with masculine ones.
a)
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose
b)
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
c)
Yet here’s a spot. . .Out, damned spot!
d)
Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.
11.
Lady Macbeth wants to have her feminine qualities replaced with masculine ones.
a)
Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall
b)
More needs she the divine than the physician.
c)
Hell is murky!
d)
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
12.
Lady Macbeth wants her deeds to be hidden because she knows they are evil.
a)
pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
b)
[Macbeth's] fiendlike queen, / Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life.
c)
who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
d)
These deeds must not be thought After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
13.
Lady Macbeth warns Macbeth that people can see his troubled mind on his face.
a)
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters.
b)
Yet do I fear thy nature
c)
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
d)
You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.
14.
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to pretend to be a good host despite the fact that he is going to murder Duncan.
a)
Look like th' innocent flower, <br />But be the serpent under ’t
b)
too full o' th' milk of human kindness
c)
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
d)
Infirm of purpose!
15.
Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth questioning why he has changed his mind about killing King Duncan.
a)
Was the hope drunk . . . And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
b)
Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it
c)
What’s done cannot be undone.
d)
The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
16.
Lady Macbeth compares Macbeth to a scared cat from a story.
a)
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
b)
What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily
c)
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
d)
My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
17.
Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth complaining he is acting like an animal and saying that he was a real man when he was going to kill the king.
a)
What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man;
b)
pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue
c)
More needs she the divine than the physician.
d)
A little water clears us of this deed.
18.
Lady Macbeth shocks Macbeth into changing his mind by saying she would kill her own baby if she had promised to do so to Macbeth.
a)
I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn
b)
unsex me here
c)
[Macbeth's] fiendlike queen, / Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life.
d)
Naught’s had, all’s spent, here our desire is got without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
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