Macbeth Act One Quiz
Directions: Answer all questions. Use the test taking strategies we have discussed in class.
1) What three prophecies did the witches make?
2) How did the message that Ross brought from Duncan help Macbeth believe the
witches?
3) Why does Lady Macbeth worry about Macbeth achieving his ambitions?
4) What is ironic about Duncan’s comments Before Macbeth’s Castle?
5) What reason does Macbeth give his wife for not killing Duncan?
6) What does Lady Macbeth suggest as a plan for killing Duncan?
7) “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest; go pronounce his
present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.” What previous question on
this quiz does this quote most accurately answer? Why?
8) “Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the
nearest way.” What previous question does this quote most accurately answer?
Why?
9) “ … look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.” What previous
question does this quote most accurately answer? Why?
10) “Come, spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the
crown to the toe, topful of direst cruelty.” Who said this? Who is the speaker
pleading to? What does it mean literally and figuratively?
11) “Bring forth men-children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing
but males.” Who said this and what does it mean literally?
12) “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” To what previous questions
does this quote most compare? Who will have the “false face”? What does the “false
heart” know?