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They will help as a study guide for taking tests. Provide brief but thorough answers and practice answering the questions as if you were taking a test.  \nAct I, scene i.-scene ii.  \n1. What is the purpose of this short scene? Select a quotation to illustrate its purpose.  \n2. What information does the witches’ conversation give the audience?  \n3. What does the soldier report about Macdonwald’s character?  \n4. What does he report about the battle?  \n5. What information does Ross give about the thane of Cawdor causing Duncan to order him dead?  \n6. Macbeth has not even appeared on the scene yet. What does the audience learn about Macbeth in scene ii before his appearance?  \nI. iii.  \n1. What three messages do the witches bring Macbeth?  \n2. What prophecies do the witches give Banquo?  \n3. How do Banquo and Macbeth react differently to the witches prophecies?  \n4. About what is Macbeth preoccupied at the end of this scene?  \n5. What is the difference between a soliloquy and an aside?  \nI.iv.  \n1. Duncan says he built his trust in Cawdor on his appearance (I. iv. 13-16) . On what has he based his judgement of Macbeth?  \n2. What does Macbeth say is the duty of loyal subjects, like himself, to King Duncan? Is he sincere?  \n3. Duncan appoints his son, Malcolm, as Prince of Cumberland. What does this imply for Macbeth?  \nI.v.  \n1. What news does Macbeth send Lady Macbeth in the letter?  \n2. What obstacle does Lady Macbeth see in the way of her husband becoming king?  \n3. Reread the lines in which Lady Macbeth calls upon the spirits of darkness. What is she asking them to eliminate from her character? What, specifically, does she ask them to help her do?  \n4. What speech in this scene shows that Lady Macbeth is cleverer than Macbeth is, and is also more aware of the appearance of things?  \n[I.vi.-vii](I.vi.-vii).  \n1. How do Duncan and Banquo describe the atmosphere of Macbeth’s castle? What is ironic about their description?  \n2. How does Lady Macbeth demonstrate the behaviour she suggested for Macbeth in scene v?  \n3. What state of mind does Macbeth reveal through his soliloquy?  \n4. When Macbeth says he will not go through with the murder “so soon”([I.vi.37](I.vi.37)), Lady Macbeth chides him and accuses him of cowardice. Is he a coward? Explain.  \n5. How does the end of Act I end the conflict in Macbeth’s mind? How do we know this?  \nQuotation Identification and Significance  \na. speaker  \nb. to whom  \nc. significance to character, theme, and plot development.  \nNot only translation.  \n“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”(I. i. 11) .  \n“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”(I. i. 77)  \nQuotation Identification and Significance  \n“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”(I. iii.39)“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence”(I. iii. 132-5) .  \n“and nothing is / But what is not”(I. iii. 151-2) .  \nQuotation Identification and Significance  \n“our duties / Are to your throne and state”(I. iv. 27-8) .  \nQuotation Identification and Significance  \n“Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ th’milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way”(I.v. 15-16)  \n“unsex me here, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top full / Of direst cruelty!”(I.v.44-46)  \n“look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under it”(I.v.72-3) .  \nQuotation Identification and Significance  \n“I have…/ only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / And falls on the other”(I.vii. 25-28) .  \n“Art thou afeared / To be the same in thine own act and valour / As thou art in desire? (I.vii.42-44) .  \n“But screw your courage to the sticking place, / And we’ll not fail”(I.vii.66-68) .  \nMacbeth Study Guide Questions – Act II  \n\n| Act II, scene i. | Quotation ID and Significance |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. 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