Category: Macbeth

edMe Reading app for Macbeth(TM). It has high-quality formative questions to ensure that your student gets the most out of this great book.

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Question #13

Look where Servilius assures Lucius that if Timon's need "were not virtuous, / I should not urge it half so faithfully."

What does "virtuous" mean in this context?





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Question #9

How does Timon's second epitaph contradict his first?





Please enter the first three words of a sentence that shows your answers is correct.

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Question #2

What is the name of Timon's guest that the poet singles out as unusual?

Please enter the first 3 words of the line that shows your answer is correct

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Act 1

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1) What is this act mainly about?

2) What is the name of Timon's guest that the poet singles out as unusual?

3) What is Ventidius imprisoned for?

4) What does Apemantus say he is most proud of?

5) Which god do the lords call Timon's steward?

6) Which three people does Apemantus list as untrustworthy in his mocking prayer?

7) Why does Timon say he sometimes wishes he were poorer?

8) Which gift does Lucius give to Timon?

9) What phrase does Alcibiades use to describe the battlefields familiar to him?

10) What does the poet mean in the quote below?

"I have upon a high and pleasant hill
Feign'd Fortune to be throned: the base o&# 39;the mount
That labour on the bosom of this sphere
To propagate their states."

11) What does the old Athenian mean in the quote below?

"I am a man
That from my first have been inclined to thrift;
And my estate deserves an heir more raised
Than one which holds a trencher."

12) What does Flavius mean in the quote below?

"Happier is he that has no friend to feed
Than such that do e'en enemies exceed."

13) Look where the merchant says of Apemantus "he'll spare none."

What does "spare" mean in this context?

14) Look where Ventidius says he will return the coins "from whose help I derived liberty."

What does "derived" mean in this context?

15) Look where Flavius asks Timon to "Vouchsafe me a word; it does concern you near."

What does "concern" mean in this context?

16) Were there any words that weren't clear to you?

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Question #14

Look where Flavius tells Timon that "There is not so much left, to furnish out / A moderate table."

What does "moderate" mean in this context?