"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handled toward my hand?" –Macbeth.
Foreshadows Macbeth murdering Duncan
100
“That hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me fire.”
Lady Macbeth
100
What time is it at the beginning of Act II?
Midnight
200
What object does Macbeth see pointing towards Duncan’s room?
A bloody dagger
200
“Prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events. New hatch'd to the woeful time.”
Define combustion.
A state of violent disturbance and excitement
200
"There are daggers in men's smiles." –Donalbain
Foreshadows the smiles and innocence that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear to have even though they killed Duncan
200
“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show’d some truth.”
Banquo
200
Who discovers that Kind Duncan is dead?
Macduff
300
Who do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains
300
“I see thee yet, in form as palpable. As this, which now I draw.”
Define palpable.
Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
300
“To know my deed 'twere best not know myself.” –Macbeth
Foreshadows Macbeth’s escalation into a cold-blooded killer
300
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does say.”
Malcolm
300
What woke Banquo up?
He dreamt of the witches prophecies
400
Why was Macbeth unable to say “amen” after he killed Duncan?
He faces a psychological break
(answers may vary)
400
“I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
Define knell.
The sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
400
“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman.” –Lady Macbeth
Foreshadows a murder
400
“O gentle lady, 'tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman's ear would murder as it fell.”
Macduff
400
Name one of the three strange occurrences that happened in Act II?
Duncan's horses ate each other, it is the middle of the day, yet completely dark outside, and an owl killed a hawk
500
Name the location that one of Duncan's sons fled to after his death?
England or Ireland
500
“Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, but you must flout my insufficiency?”
Define flout.
Treat with contemptuous disregard
500
“A friend.” –Macbeth
Foreshadows the guilt Macbeth will feel after murdering a friend of his
500
“Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my handle rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red."
Macbeth
500
What did Macbeth hear after he murdered Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain woke up, and one of them screamed murder.