Scene 3 Act 4

Question 1

Macduff; describing the situation in Scotland

Answer 1

“Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face,”

Question 2

Malcolm; describing Macbeth

Answer 2

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest,”

Question 3

Malcolm; the state of Scotland and how new wounds were added to her.

Answer 3

“I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash is added to her wounds,”

Question 4

Malcolm; again describing Macbeth

Answer 4

“Black Macbeth,”

Question 5

Macduff; saying how not even devils in hell could be as evil as Macbeth

Answer 5

“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth,”

Question 6

Macduff, saying how Macbeth claimed the kingship wrongly

Answer 6

“Untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered”

Question 7

Malcolm, describing Macbeth 2

Answer 7

“Devilish Macbeth,”

Question 8

Malcolm, describing Edward’s heavenly gift

Answer 8

“With this strange virtue, he hath heavenly gift of prophecy, and sundry blessings hang about his throne, that speak him full of grace,”

Question 9

Ross, saying Scotland is almost unrecognisable

Answer 9

“Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know itself,”

Question 10

Malcolm, describing the English King

Answer 10

“Gracious England,”