Starter quiz
- In the run up to the regicide in 'Macbeth', which adjectives best describe how Lady Macbeth feels?
- vulnerable
- determined ✓
- unwavering ✓
- chaste
- ambitious ✓
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- What happens to Lady Macbeth at the end of 'Macbeth'?
- She is hung, thought to be a witch.
- She and Macbeth split up.
- She chooses to kill herself. ✓
- We don't find out; after Act 5, Scene 1, she is never mentioned again.
- She is killed when the English army storm the Macbeths' castle.
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- In Act 1, Scene 5 of 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth gives a soliloquy in which she asks spirits to 'stop up the access and passage to remorse'. What feeling is she trying to get rid of?
- femininity
- chastity
- guilt ✓
- obedience
- kindness
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- In order to commit the regicide in 'Macbeth', Macbeth and Lady Macbeth need to get past King Duncan's guards. How do they do this?
- Macbeth kills them.
- Lady Macbeth kills them.
- Macbeth drugs them.
- Lady Macbeth drugs them. ✓
- Macbeth kills Duncan when the guards are asleep.
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- In Act 1 of 'Macbeth', Macbeth brutally kills an enemy soldier. How did he feel after this deed and why?
- Proud because he defended King Duncan. ✓
- Confident in his ability to use this prowess to kill Duncan.
- Hesitant about his own brutality.
- Guilty for displaying the head on the battlements for all to see.
- Loyal to Scotland. ✓
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- In Act 1, Scene 5 of 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth has a soliloquy. She asks 'thick night' to do two things for her. What are they?
- To not allow the heavens to see her commit the regicide. ✓
- To unsex her.
- To fill her with cruelty.
- To hide the knife wound she makes in King Duncan. ✓
- To turn her breastmilk to poison.
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