Read The Macbeth Act 2 before answering the questions. http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/html/Mac.html
1) What does Macbeth see floating in front of him on his way to kill King Duncan?
A bloody ghost
A bloody dagger
A beheaded man
A drink of poison
2) Who discovers the murdered King Duncan?
Macduff
Donalbain
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth
3) What do people believe Duncan’s sons have done?
Murdered the king themselves
Hired the servants to kill the king
Bribed Macduff to escape
Plotted to kill Macbeth
4) Who is crowned king after Duncan is murdered?
Donalbain
Malcolm
Macduff
Macbeth
5) ‘O gentle lady!
‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak;
The repetition in a woman’s ear
Would murder as it fell.’ -Macduff
A. This is an instance of metaphor
B. This is an instance of catharsis
C. This is an instance of the tragic flaw
D. This is an instance of aside
E. This is an instance of dramatic irony
6) ‘The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confus’d events
New hatch’d to the woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamour’d the livelong night: some say the earth
Was feverous and did shake.’ -Lennox
A. Man versus Nature
B. Natural versus the Supernatural
C. The ends justify the means
D. Violence and Peace
E. Gluttony
7) ‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
I hear a knocking
At the sout entry; retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed;
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.’ -Lady Macbeth
A. The ends justify the means
B. Motherhood
C. The traits of a good and decent king
D. Femininity and Strength
E. Guilt
8) ‘These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.’ -Lady Macbeth
A. Motherhood
B. Enjoyment versus Health
C. Masculinity
D. Violence and Peace
E. Guilt
9) ‘That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,
What hath quench’d them hath given me fire.’ – Lady Macbeth
A. This is an example of tragic flaw
B. This is an example of tragic hero
C. This is an example of Shakespeare’s wordplay
D. This is an example of catharsis
E. This is an example of personification
10) ‘I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you they have show’d some truth.’ – Banquo
A. The danger of knowledge
B. The strength of love
C. Greed
D. Individual versus Society
E. Femininity and Beauty
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