Macbeth Quiz

"Till he unseam'd him from the [blank_start]nave[blank_end] to the [blank_start]chops[blank_end], And fix'd his [blank_start]head[blank_end] upon our battlements."

Which title did Macbeth have at the beginning of the play?

"Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, [blank_start]unsex[blank_end] me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make [blank_start]thick[blank_end] my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for [blank_start]gall[blank_end], you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief."

"I have given [blank_start]suck[blank_end], and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his [blank_start]boneless gums[blank_end] And [blank_start]dashed the brains[blank_end] out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this."

Duncan has three sons.

What does Macbeth have a vision of before he goes to kill Duncan?

Why does Lady Macbeth not want to kill Duncan herself?

"Will all great [blank_start]Neptune[blank_end]’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the [blank_start]green[blank_end] one [blank_start]red[blank_end]."

Who discovers Duncan's death?

Murderers kill both Fleance and Banquo.

Who is the goddess of witchcraft? [blank_start]Hecate[blank_end]

Who says this line: "Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned In evils to top Macbeth."

How many times does Banquo's ghost appear to Macbeth?

"Out, damned [blank_start]spot[blank_end]! Out, I say! . . . Yet who would have thought the [blank_start]old man[blank_end] to have had so much [blank_start]blood[blank_end] in him."

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Macbeth says this quote after which event?

"Thou wast born of [blank_start]woman[blank_end]. But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandished by man that’s of a [blank_start]woman born[blank_end]."

In what year was Macbeth first performed?