WorksheetsLady Macbeth Quotes Act 3 to 5
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 7mins
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1.
Lady Macbeth provides a reason she couldn't murder King Duncan herself.
a)
Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.
b)
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts
c)
Yet do I fear thy nature
d)
Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done.
2.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth when he shows fear after killing King Duncan.
a)
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
b)
fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
c)
too full o' th' milk of human kindness
d)
Are you a man?
3.
Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth not to think about the murder of Duncan.
a)
These deeds must not be thought After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
b)
Make thick my blood
c)
Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it
d)
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!
4.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth when he shows fear after killing King Duncan.
a)
You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.
b)
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose
c)
What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily
d)
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
5.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth when he shows fear after killing King Duncan.
a)
Infirm of purpose!
b)
Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall
c)
pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue
d)
Yet here’s a spot. . .Out, damned spot!
6.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth when he shows fear after killing King Duncan.
a)
The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
b)
pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
c)
unsex me here
d)
Hell is murky!
7.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth when he shows fear after killing King Duncan.
a)
My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
b)
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters.
c)
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts
d)
who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
8.
Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to wash away the blood and guilt.
a)
A little water clears us of this deed.
b)
Look like th' innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t
c)
fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
d)
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
9.
Lady Macbeth laments that she has everything that she wanted but she is not happy.
a)
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.
b)
Was the hope drunk . . . And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
c)
Make thick my blood
d)
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
10.
Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth not to think about the murder of Duncan.
a)
Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done.
b)
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
c)
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose
d)
What’s done cannot be undone.
11.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth after he sees the ghost.
a)
Are you a man?
b)
What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man;
c)
Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall
d)
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
12.
Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth after he sees the ghost.
a)
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!
b)
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
c)
pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes
d)
More needs she the divine than the physician.
13.
Lady Macbeth says that Macbeth just needs to get some more sleep to feel better.
a)
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
b)
Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.
c)
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters.
d)
[Macbeth's] fiendlike queen, / Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life.
14.
Lady Macbeth imagines she has blood on her hands while sleepwalking.
a)
Yet here’s a spot. . . Out, damned spot!
b)
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
c)
Look like th' innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t
d)
Yet do I fear thy nature
15.
Lady Macbeth is being tormented by visions while sleepwalking.
a)
Hell is murky!
b)
These deeds must not be thought After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
c)
Was the hope drunk . . . And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
d)
too full o' th' milk of human kindness
16.
Lady Macbeth is being tormented by visions while sleepwalking.
a)
who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him
b)
You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.
c)
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” Like the poor cat i' th' adage?
d)
Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it
17.
Lady Macbeth imagines she has blood on her hands while sleepwalking.
a)
What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
b)
Infirm of purpose!
c)
What beast was ’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man;
d)
What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily
18.
Lady Macbeth imagines she has blood on her hands while sleepwalking.
a)
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
b)
The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures.
c)
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
d)
pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue
19.
Lady Macbeth realises that she can't change what she has done.
a)
What’s done cannot be undone.
b)
My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
c)
Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.
d)
unsex me here
20.
The Doctor suggests a cause for Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking.
a)
Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles.
b)
A little water clears us of this deed.
c)
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
d)
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts
21.
The Doctor suggests that Lady Macbeth might need a priest more than a doctor.
a)
More needs she the divine than the physician.
b)
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.
c)
These deeds must not be thought After these ways. So, it will make us mad.
d)
fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
22.
Malcolm sums up Lady Macbeth's death.
a)
[Macbeth's] fiendlike queen, / Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands / Took off her life.
b)
Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done.
c)
You do unbend your noble strength to think So brainsickly of things.
d)
Make thick my blood
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