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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Heroic?
Admirably brave and determined
Having won a victory, triumphant in success
Accurately predicting what will happen in the future
Desire and determination to achieve success
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Victorious?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Having won a victory, triumphant in success
Accurately predicting what will happen in the future
Desire and determination to achieve success
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Prophetic?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
Accurately predicting what will happen in the future
Desire and determination to achieve success
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Ambition?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
The act of killing a king
Desire and determination to achieve success
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Usurp?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
The act of killing a king
Take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of an Overreacher?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
The act of killing a king
Literary characters who exceed the accepted bounds of society
- 7. Multiple Choice
BONUS: Why is the Over-reacher a significant motif in Macbeth? Select all that apply
It is a being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Macbeth destroys the natural order and 'reaches' beyond his social position therefore dies tragically as a warning to other rebels against King James I
King James I was himself an over-reacher
Shakespeare draws on contemporary fears/desires of overthrowing the monarchy and the risks involved
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Chivalry?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
A medieval knightly system with its religious, moral and social code
Desire and determination to achieve success
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Supernatural?
A being or event beyond human and scientific understanding
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
A medieval knightly system with its religious, moral and social code
Deliberately being deceitful or misleading
- 10. Multiple Choice
BONUS: Select all the examples which are indications of the Supernatural in the play
The meeting of the witches takes place at night
The paradoxical language and their chanting rhythm in rhyming couples creates an eerie atmosphere
The use of Pathetic Fallacy to indicate the wild and unnatural nature of the witches
Shakespeare uses references to animals which have evil connotations such as ravens, bats and reptiles that make the audience uncomfortable
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Valour?
Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics
Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
A medieval knightly system with its religious, moral and social code
Deliberately being deceitful or misleading
- 12. Multiple Choice
BONUS: At the beginning of the play who is described as "valour's minion carved out his passage"?
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
King Duncan
Macduff
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of Regicide?
Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics
Wrongful crimes which are particularly wicked, bordering on evil
The act of killing a king
Deliberately being deceitful or misleading
- 14. Multiple Choice
BONUS: Why was Regicide considered so awful?
Regicide involved the killing of the King who was the head of state and appointed by God. This disrupted the Great Chain of Being and Divine Right
Any killing is a wrongful crime which is particularly wicked, bordering on evil
By killing the king, the witches are able to gain control and use an evil influence on the whole kingdom
Duncan was described as a good and just king, he is replaced by a cruel and tyrannous leader in Macbeth
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