Macbeth Acts 1+2 Test

Fair is foul and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air (1.1.12-13).

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Fair is foul and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air (1.1.12-13).

Witches said it at the very beginning, when discussing when they will see Macbeth

So foul and fair a day I have not seen (1.3.39).

Macbeth says this after arriving at the area where the witches are

Why do you dress me in borrowed robes (1.3.114-115)?

Macbeth says this when he is given Thane of Cawdor

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir (1.3.157-159).

Macbeth says this shortly after the witches leave

Yet I do fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness (1.5.16-17).

Lady Macbeth is discussing how her husband is too gentle

Look like th' innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't (1.5.77).

Lady Macbeth says this, informing Macbeth that he needs to deceive everyone to kill Duncan

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly (1.7.1-2).

Macbeth says this, showing his conflicting because he is worried about killing Duncan

False face must hide what the false heart doth know (1.7.95-96).

Macbeth says this, showing that he will kill Duncan but he knows it is morally wrong

All's well. / I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: / To you they have show'd some truth. (2.1.24 - 26)

Banquo tells Macbeth he dreamt about the witches and how their prophecy will come true

Is this a dagger which I see before me, /The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. / I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. / Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight? or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? (2.1.44 - 51)

Macbeth says this as he sees an imaginary dagger showing his hesitation about killing Duncan