Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
(Test - Acts One & Two)
PART ONE:
From the list of characters identify the description or the speaker of the quote.
Macbeth Lady Macbeth Duncan Banquo Macduff Porter Weird Sisters Malcolm & Donalbain 1. king of Scotland
2. The three witches
3. Protagonist - General in the Scottish Army
4. Friend of Macbeth - general in the Scottish army
5. Sons of the King
6. "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe, top full of direst cruelty..."
7. "When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning or in rain?"
8. "No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth."
9. "1f chance will have me king, why, chance will crown me without my stir.
10. "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature: it is too full o'the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way."
ll. "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, for in my way it lies"
12. "To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like ~he innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."
13. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'er-leaps itself and falls on the other ... We will proceed no further in this business."
14. "Art thou afeared to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire? ... When you durst do it, then you were a man."
15. "The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is the knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell."
16. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?"
17. "Knock. knock. knock! Who's there, i'the name of Beelzebub?"
18. "Horror! Horror! ... Awake! Awake! Ring the alarum bell. Murder and treason!"
19. "0 gentle lady! 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak."
20. "Let's not consort with them. To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy. I'll to England. To Ireland, I; our separate fortune shall keep us both the safer."
PART TWO:
1. Give an example from the play of each of the following:
a. Foreshadow
b. Dramatic Irony
c. Comic Relief
d. Soliloquy
2. Explain in detail the internal conflict which Macbeth experiences.
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