{"id":10925,"date":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:25","slug":"MacbethB","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/MacbethB\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text of Book<\/u><\/h2>\n

Act 2, page 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 2, page 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 2, page 3<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 2, page 4<\/a><\/h3>\n

Questions<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n
1)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is the main idea of Act 2?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
2)<\/b><\/td>\nMacbeth says,<\/p>\n

"Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven, or to hell."<\/p>\n

What does "summons" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
3)<\/b><\/td>\nLady Macbeth says,<\/p>\n

"Alack! I am afraid they have awaked.
And 'tis not done: th'attempt and not the deed
Confounds us."<\/p>\n

What does "Confounds" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
4)<\/b><\/td>\nMacduff wakes everyone after discovering the murdered Duncan saying:<\/p>\n

"Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! Awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!"<\/p>\n

What does "sleep, death's counterfeit" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
5)<\/b><\/td>\nMacbeth says,<\/p>\n

"Here lay Duncan,
His silver skin laced with his golden blood,
And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature"<\/p>\n

What does "breach" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
6)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Macbeth imagine that he sees which seems to lead him to Duncan's room?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
7)<\/b><\/td>\nHow was Macbeth able to get past Duncan's chamberlains to gain access to Duncan's room?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
8)<\/b><\/td>\nWhich word describes Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's attitudes toward Duncan's murder?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
9)<\/b><\/td>\nWho finds Duncan's murdered body?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
10)<\/b><\/td>\nWhere do Malcolm and Donalbain go after their father is murdered?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
11)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Macbeth mean in this quote?<\/p>\n

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 75–78<\/i><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
12)<\/b><\/td>\nThe same quote from the last question is copied below. What does "blood" represent in this quote?<\/p>\n

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 75–78<\/i><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
13)<\/b><\/td>\nIn Act 2, Scene 4 Ross and an old man discuss some of the bizarre happenings in nature that seem to suggest that something is wrong. Which three strange occurrences do they discuss?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
14)<\/b><\/td>\nWho is the porter pretending to be as he answers the knock at the gate?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
15)<\/b><\/td>\nWhen Macbeth is being questioned about why he killed the chamberlains, what does Lady Macbeth do to draw everyone's attention away from her husband?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
16)<\/b><\/td>\nWere there any events that weren't clear to you?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text of Book Act 2, page 1 Act 2, page 2 Act 2, page 3 Act 2, page 4 Questions 1) What is the main idea of Act 2? 2) Macbeth says, "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knellThat summons thee to heaven, or to hell." What does "summons" mean in this passage? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Wizard-of-Oz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}