Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

courageous

Answer 1

“For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name” (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 2

noble and loyal

Answer 2

“O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 3

affected by the supernatural

Answer 3

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 4

moral

Answer 4

“What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 5

anxious about divine retribution

Answer 5

“Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague th’inventor” (Act 1, Scene 7)

Question 6

guilt-ridden

Answer 6

“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 7

independent from LM

Answer 7

“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed” (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 8

malevolent

Answer 8

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes” (Act 4, Scene 1)

Question 9

a villain who was once a hero

Answer 9

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest” (Act 4, Scene 3)

Question 10

tyrannical ruler

Answer 10

“I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name” (Act 4, Scene 3)

Question 11

unworthy of kingship

Answer 11

“Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief” (Act 5, Scene 2)

Question 12

destroyed by his own ambition and greed

Answer 12

“I have liv’d long enough. My way of life Is fall’n into the sere” (Act 5, Scene 3)

Question 13

unaffected by LM’s death

Answer 13

“She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word” (Act 5, Scene 5)

Question 14

defiant and confident

Answer 14

“Lay on, Macduff, And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’” (Act 5, Scene 8)

Question 15

brutal and inhumane

Answer 15

“Of this dead butcher and his fiend like queen” (Act 5, Scene 9)