Macbeth--symbols In The Play

When Macbeth says, "Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep'"  The voice which Macbeth hears is:

• Really the voices of the witches

• Really the voice of his conscience

• Really the admonishing voice of his wife

• Really the voice of the ghost of Duncan

Much of the play centers on the struggle between light and darkness. The "light" in the first two acts is:

• King Duncan

• Banquo

• Lady Macbeth

• Fleance

The dark and isolated fiendish actions of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are interrupted by the porter's knock at the gate. This could represent:

• The Macbeths' better hurry and hide the deed

• That Macduff and Lennox know that something is wrong from the unnatural disturbances of the night

• A return to the real world and the guilt of the night's murder

• The porter's drunkenness and lack of awareness

Banquo is the first person to say Macbeth's name in the play?

• True

• False

Time is of cental importance in Macbeth.

• True

• False

To help Macbeth not call off the murder, Lady Macbeth questions his _________________.

A dagger floating through the air, Banquo's ghost sitting in a chair at a feast, Lady Macbeth's bloody hands, are all symbols of

• Supernatural signs of the Macbeths' guilt

• Representations of the play's violence

• Visions and hallucinations

• The conflict between reason and passion

The witches chorus in Act I, Scene I:     "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."         This quote is

• A paradox(a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.)

• A complete contradictory statement that rarely makes sense

• Both a paradox and a prophecy

• A statement about the weather

Macbeth can be seen as a play about the __________________ of order through evil.

Thunder and lightning represent_________________ in nature.