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  • In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', Macbeth has a soliloquy. What could be argued is its purpose?
    • To give Lady Macbeth time to kill King Duncan off stage.
    • To reveal the plot to commit regicide to the audience: Macbeth goes through it.
    • To reveal the depths of Macbeth's hesitancy.  ✓
    • To give King Duncan time to go to sleep so Macbeth can kill him.
    • To reveal Macbeth's feelings towards Lady Macbeth.
  • In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', why is Lady Macbeth initially angry with Macbeth?
    • He's come up with his own plan for killing Duncan, rather than adhering to hers.
    • He didn't tell her he had been promoted to the Thane of Cawdor.
    • He didn't tell her that King Duncan was staying at their home for the night.
    • He accuses her of being drunk when she came up with the plan for killing Duncan.
    • He tells her he doesn't want to continue plotting against Duncan.  ✓
  • What information does a single paragraph outline contain that can support extended writing?
    • Bullet points of all the evidence you will use in an essay.
    • A topic sentence written in full.  ✓
    • A chronological list of all your topic sentences in note form.
    • Bullets points of the supporting evidence for your topic sentence.  ✓
    • A summary sentence written in full.  ✓
  • 'Macbeth' is a story about regicide. For Shakespeare's Jacobean audience, why was regicide one of the most serious crimes you could commit?
    • God selected the monarch. Thus, to challenge the monarch was to challenge God.  ✓
    • James I made a law decreeing that it was the most serious crime.
    • Jacobeans adhered to a strict hierarchy with the monarch at the top.  ✓
    • Monarchs were thought to have supernatural powers.
    • Monarchs were compassionate to their subjects: killing them was deemed cruel.
  • In 'Macbeth', Shakespeare uses Act 1 to show that Lady Macbeth knows Macbeth very well. Which lines of dialogue best show this intimacy?
    • 'Hie thee hither'
    • 'art not without ambition'  ✓
    • 'too full o' the milk of human kindness'  ✓
    • 'Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!'
    • 'dearest partner of greatness'
  • When Lady Macbeth first sees Macbeth in Act 1, she greets him with, 'Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!' What are valid inferences about this greeting?
    • Lady Macbeth knows Duncan is already dead, and greets her husband accordingly.
    • Lady Macbeth is most pleased about his being promoted to Thane of Cawdor.
    • Lady Macbeth is already manipulating her husband by targeting his ambition.  ✓
    • Lady Macbeth anticipates Macbeth's ascension to the throne.  ✓
    • Lady Macbeth is proud of his achievement in battle and hails his bravery.
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