Macbeth Act 1 Sc2 & 3

Question 1

Foul and fair

Answer 1

So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Question 2

question

Answer 2

Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 3

Banquo to witches

Answer 3

you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)

Question 4

all hail macbeth

Answer 4

All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Question 5

Comparing macbeth and banquo

Answer 5

Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Question 6

thane of cawdor

Answer 6

He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’

Question 7

Macbeth aside

Answer 7

.(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 8

Supernatural cant be good

Answer 8

(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 9

If chance have macbeth king

Answer 9

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

Question 10

Duncan treats macbeth as family

Answer 10

worthiest cousin’ (Duncan

Question 11

Shows macbeth loves his country

Answer 11

The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)

Question 12

Prince of cumberland

Answer 12

Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’

Question 13

Rhyming couplet macbeth ires

Answer 13

Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)