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  • How does 'Macbeth' begin?
    • With the witches' prophecies.
    • Lady Macbeth reading a letter about the prophecies.
    • Macbeth searching for the witches.
    • During a battle.
    • With the witches, on a heath.  ✓
  • In 'Macbeth', why might the witches be considered outsiders?
    • They don't conform to the status quo.  ✓
    • They reinforce the status quo.
    • The don't adhere to common expectations of Jacobean women.  ✓
    • They conform to supernatural stereotypes.  ✓
    • They want to meet Macbeth, an important Thane.
  • In his letter to Lady Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 5 of 'Macbeth', Macbeth calls her his 'dearest ______ of greatness'.
    • 'partner' ✓
  • The ______ is the term for the accepted standards and rules by which a community lives.
    • 'status quo' ✓
  • Arguably, in Act 1, Scene 5 of 'Macbeth', the Macbeths are presented as having a strong relationship. Which statements best support this argument?
    • Macbeth is ambitious.
    • Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth.
    • Lady Macbeth has detailed knowledge of Macbeth's strengths and weaknesses.  ✓
    • Macbeth sends Lady Macbeth a letter as soon as he hears about the prophecies.  ✓
    • Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss the child they once had.
  • In 'Macbeth', which quotation best shows Lady Macbeth's support for her husband's ambition to be King of Scotland?
    • 'Art not without ambition'
    • 'my dearest partner of greatness'
    • 'Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both'  ✓
    • 'look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.'
    • 'When you durst do it, then you were a man'
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