Mr. Fornnarino's English 2, Practice Quiz 13

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To answer Questions 13-18, read the following passage from Act II of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act II Scene i Lines 30-63
MACBETH
30 Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
Exit Servant
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.
35 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?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
40 As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
45 And, on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
50 The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
55 Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
60 Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Exit
 

To answer Questions 19-24, read the following passage from Act II of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act II Scene ii Lines 33-50
MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
35 Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
LADY MACBETH                              What do you mean?
MACBETH Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house.
40 'Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water
45 And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there. Go carry them and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
MACBETH                                             I'll go no more.
I am afraid to think what I have done.
50 Look on't again I dare not.
 

To answer Questions 25-29, read the following passage from Act II of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the prompts next to the passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.

Act II Scene iii Lines 5-28
PORTER [Knocking within]
5 Knock,knock! Who's there, in the
other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both
the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's
sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator.
[Knocking within] Knock, knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an English
10 tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose. Come in, tailor.
Here you may roast your goose. [Knocking within] Knock, knock! Never at quiet.
--What are you?—But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it
no further. I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go
the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. [Knocking within] Anon, anon!
[Opens the gate]
15 I pray you, remember the porter.
[Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX]
MACDUFF Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,
That you do lie so late?
PORTER Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock, and drink, sir,
is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF 20 What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it
provokes, and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the
performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an
equivocator with lechery. It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him
25 on, and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him; makes
him stand to and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a
sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.