Macbeth Quotes Exam Questions with Answers

Macbeth Quotes Exam Questions with Answers "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - ANSWER ~ witches - foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural "Let not light see my black and deep desires." - ANSWER ~ Macbeth - After Duncan announces that he will name his son Malcolm the next king, Macbeth hopes his disappointment doesn't show. He must find a way to prevent Malcolm from becoming king. "Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness." - ANSWER ~ Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth) - She fears that Macbeth is too kind to go through with killing Duncan. "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." - ANSWER ~ Lady Macbeth (speaking to Macbeth) - This is just before King Duncan's arrival at their castle. Macbeth's wife wants him to act nice to Duncan's face, and hide his evil intentions. "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!" - ANSWER ~ Lady Macbeth - calling on the spirits to take away her feminine, weakness and fill her with evil because she wants Duncan dead. "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail." - ANSWER ~ Lady Macbeth - before they kill Duncan, she is reassuring Macbeth that everything will work out if he fixes his courage firmly in place. "False face must hide what false heart doth know." - ANSWER ~ Macbeth - He has decided he will go along with Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan. Telling himself that he must put on a false pleasant face to hide his false, evil heart. "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't." (referring to Duncan) - ANSWER ~ Lady Macbeth - She would've killed Duncan herself but as he was sleeping he looked like her father. "What hands are here? Ha: they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" - ANSWER ~ Macbeth - looking at his hands after he has just killed Duncan. He wonders if all of the water in the ocean could wash the blood off his hands.