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Macbeth Act 1 - Written Test

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Directions:
1. Place the number of syllables in each line at the end of each line.
2. Determine who said the quote and who they said it to!
3. Paraphrase (what is the quote saying).
4. Answer this question: why is this an important quote?
QUOTE #1 (10 points)
Who said it? __________________ (1 point)
Who did they say it to? _______________ (1 point)
This supernatural soliciting ____
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, ____
Why hath it given me earnest of success ____
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. ____
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion ____
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair ____
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs ____
Against the use of nature? Present fears… ____
Syllables are ½ point each = _____/4
Paraphrase (2 points):
Why is this quote important? (2 points)
QUOTE #2 (10 points)
Who said it? __________________ (1 point)
Who did they say it to? _______________ (1 point)
Come, you spirits _____
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, _____
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full _____
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. _____
Syllables are ½ point each = _____/2
Paraphrase (2 points) :
Why is this quote important (2 points) ?
QUOTE #3
Who said it? __________________ (1 point)
Who did they say it to? _______________ (1 point)
I am settled and bend up_____
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. _____
Away, and mock the time with fairest show. _____
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know._____
Syllables are ½ point each = _____/2
Paraphrase (3 points):
Why is this quote important? (3 points)
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