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Quotation Test-Acts 1 and 2 

Part 2-Choose any 4 quotations.  Write each quotation and then write the letter of the correct answer for questions 1, 2 and 3 
 1. Who said it?  2. To whom was it said?  3. What type of image?  4. Write out why was it said and what does it mean? 
A. Macbeth        D. Banquo         G. Macduff                J. simile 
B. Duncan          E. Witch            H. other character       K. metaphor 
C. Lady Macbeth  F. Malcolm      I.  personification       L.Soliloquy

Quotations for Act 1 
1. But I am faint, my gashes cry for help. 

2. If you can look into the seeds of time, 
       And say which grain will grow and which will not, 
       Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 
 Your favours nor your hate. 

3. The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me 
       In borrow'd robes? 

4. If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, 
       Without my stir. 

5.I have begun to plant thee, and will labour 
       To make thee full of growing. 

6.Stars, hide your fires; 
       Let not light see my black and deep desires: 

7. yet do I fear thy nature; 
       It is too full o' the milk of human kindness 
       To catch the nearest way: 

8. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men 
       May read strange matters. 

9.look like the innocent flower, 
       But be the serpent under't. 

10.  I have no spur 
       To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
       Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself 
       And falls on the other. 

11. Was the hope drunk 
       Wherein you dress'd yourself? 

Quotations for Act 2 
12. Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, 
       Or else worth all the rest 

13. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. 

14.  the sleeping and the dead 
       Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood 
       That fears a painted devil. 

15. some say, the earth 
       Was feverous and did shake. 

16.Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! 

17. where we are, 
       There's daggers in men's smiles 

18. Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, 
       That darkness does the face of earth entomb, 
       When living light should kiss it?