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Student: Nate Lee

Student E-mail: nate-lee@dongguan.qsi.org

Date: 11/01/2021

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Macbeth Multiple Choice “Fleance is ‘scaped” Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 22

Highlighted Text Question 1 of 1

What kind of imagery does Macbeth

predominantly use to describe the effect the
news that Fleance escaped has on him?
Macbeth
22 I had else been perfect,
B. Imagery of freedom and confinement
23 Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
grounded
24 As broad and general as the casing air.
Correct
free surrounding Macbeth states that if the murderers had killed
25 But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in Fleance, Macbeth would have been “As broad and
shut in boxed up general” as the air itself. But since they failed to do
26 To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe? so, he’s cornered by his “doubts and fears.”
unruly
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Macbeth Multiple Choice Serpents Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 30

Highlighted Text Question 1 of 2

Who is the serpent, and who is the worm in

Macbeth’s metaphor?

Macbeth
B. Banquo and Fleance
30 There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled

31 Hath nature that in time will venom breed — Correct

Banquo is “the grown serpent,” who lies “safe in a
32 No teeth for the present. Get thee gone. Tomorrow
ditch” (line 27) — in other words, he’s dead and
therefore no longer a threat to Macbeth. Fleance
is metaphorically referred to as a “worm” because
he is the son of Banquo (“the grown serpent”). He
has “fled” because he has escaped the murderers.

Question 2 of 2

Why is Macbeth not in danger from the

“worm” — at least for the time being?

A. Fleance is still young.

Correct
Fleance, “the worm,” has “No teeth for the
present” because he is young, and his nature has
not yet bred “venom.”
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Macbeth Written Answer Question Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 50a

Highlighted Text The Ghost

What do you make of Macbeth’s reaction to
the ghost? Why does he see it, when his
dinner guests clearly cannot? Be sure to cite
Macbeth textual evidence to support your
50a [Sees the ghost] Which of you have done this? conclusions.

Lords I think his guilt and fear about

50b                                                                          What, my
killing after the Banquo made
good lord?
him to see the ghost. Because
Macbeth
since it is his own feeling, so he
51 [To the ghost] Thou canst not say I did it. Never

shake was the only one to see the

52 Thy gory locks at me.
ghost. "Which of you have done

this?"

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Macbeth Multiple Choice Lady Macbeth Scolds Her Husband Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 63

Highlighted Text Question 1 of 1

How does Lady Macbeth dismiss her husband’s

vision of the ghost?

Lady Macbeth
D. She tells him it’s not real — just a
63 O proper stuff.    
utter nonsense
product of his fear.
64 This is the very painting of your fear.

65 This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,

Correct
Lady Macbeth dismisses Macbeth’s vision as “the
66 Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts , very painting of [his] fear.” In other words, it is a
sudden outbursts visual manifestation of his fear, rather than a real
67 Impostors to true fear, would well become ghost, come to haunt him.
suit
68 A woman's story at a winter's fire,

69 Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself.

made up
70 Why do you make such faces? When all's done,

71 You look but on a stool.

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Macbeth Written Answer Question Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 125

Highlighted Text Blood

Macbeth
125 It will have blood. They say, blood will have blood.
What do you think Macbeth means here?
Does this phrase remind you of any other
lines from the play — or common phrases
you might be familiar with from our day
and age? Be sure to cite textual evidence to
support your conclusions.

he knows that he will have to

suffer for his murders. Macbeth

recognizes that just as he

murdered people to gain

power, others on a quest for

power may murder him to gain

what he has. It is quite similar

to hammurabi code's "eye for

an eye".

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Macbeth Multiple Choice Macbeth’s New Outlook Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 139

Question 1 of 1
Highlighted Text
Which of the following offers the best
paraphrase of these lines?

Macbeth
A. I’ve shed so much blood, I can’t turn
139 All causes shall give way. I am in blood
back now. I have ideas in my head that I
140 Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, must act on before I think them over.

141 Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

would be painful Correct
142 Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, When Macbeth says “Returning were as tedious as
be done go o’er,” he means that going back on his choices
143 Which must be acted ere they may be scanned. would be just as hard as shedding more blood
before examined
until his rule is solidified. The “Strange things [he
has] in head” must be “acted” — done — before
they’re considered, or “scanned.”

Macbeth Written Answer Question Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 139

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Macbeth Written Answer Question Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 139

Highlighted Text Macbeth’s New Outlook

Do these lines mark a shift in Macbeth in any
way? Compare them, for example, to the
question he asks in Act 1, Scene 3: “If good,
Macbeth why do I yield to that suggestion /  Whose
139 All causes shall give way. I am in blood horrid image doth unfix my hair, / And
make my seated heart knock at my ribs, /
140 Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Against the use of nature?” (1.3.136-139) Or
141 Returning were as tedious as go o'er. consider his soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 7: “But
would be painful in these cases / We still have judgment here
142 Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, — that we but teach / Bloody instructions,
be done
143 Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.
which, being taught, return / To plague the
before examined inventor. This even-handed justice /
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned
chalice / To our own lips” (1.7.7-12).

Essentially, Macbeth believes

that he has committed too

many crimes to turn his life

around and possibly find to be

saved. Which is very different

his previous actions.

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Macbeth Written Answer Question Complete

Act 3, Scene 4, Line 145

Highlighted Text Any Questions?

What questions do you have about this
scene?

Macbeth

145 Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse

What will happen next to
146 Is the initiate fear that wants hard use.
beginner's needs experience
Macbeth and how did Lady
147 We are yet but young in deed.

[Exit]
practice Macbeth felt when he showed

that he can't go back?

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