Starter quiz

  • In the run up to the regicide in 'Macbeth', which adjectives best describe how Lady Macbeth feels?
    • vulnerable
    • determined  ✓
    • unwavering  ✓
    • chaste
    • ambitious  ✓
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.  ✓
  • 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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