Macbeth, Act II
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Take this quick content quiz on Act II of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
- 1.Which character asks, "Is this a dagger which I see before me"?
- A.
Lady Macbeth
- B.
Macbeth
- C.
Duncan
- D.
Banquo
- E.
MacDuff
- 2.Whose idea is it to get the groomsmen/guards drunk?
- A.
Macbeth
- B.
Lady Macbeth
- C.
The Weird Sisters
- D.
Ross
- E.
Banquo
- 3.Who advises that "[t]hese deeds must not be thought/ After these ways; so, it will make us mad"?
- A.
First Witch
- B.
Macbeth
- C.
Lady Macbeth
- D.
Second Witch
- E.
Ross
- 4.To what does the Porter compare the castle?
- A.
Heaven
- B.
A kingdom
- C.
A circus
- D.
Hell
- E.
A banquet hall
- 5.
- A.
It splatters on her when she stabs the grooms
- B.
Macbeth rubs some of the blood on his hands onto her hands
- C.
From smearing the daggers with blood
- D.
From killing swine
- E.
From injuring herself
- 6.When Macbeth cries, "Had I but died an hour before this chance, / I had lived a blessed time . . .", is he sincere?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 7.Why does Macbeth really kill the grooms/guards?
- A.
He is enraged that they were drunk on duty
- B.
To cover up his foul deeds
- C.
Because he knows that they are guilty of murder
- D.
To cover up for Lady Macbeth having committed murder
- E.
Because they attack him
- 8.When Macbeth says, " . ..this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine," he means that . . .
- A.
He is so guilty that the blood on his hands will not wash away but will rather taint the ocean
- B.
He plans to dump the body into the ocean
- C.
He regrets his actions
- 9.Macbeth hears a voice that says, "________no more!/ Macbeth does murder _________". The same word is missing from both blanks; what is the missing word?
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