The Tragedy of Macbeth Test Review
Identify the speaker, to whom he or she is speaking and the message being conveyed.
1) “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
2) “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
3) “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
4) “The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way
it lies.”
5) “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an
absolute trust.”
6) “If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”
7) “My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white”
8) “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.”
9) “Had I but died an hour before this chance,/ I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant/ There’s
nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys.”
10) “The spring, the head, the fountain of [Donalbain’s] blood”?
11) “. . . better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture
of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy.”
12) “We are yet but young in deed”
13) “Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content . . .
14) “He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all
know security is mortals’ chiefest enemy.”
15) “The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”
16) “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day,”
17) “Out, out, brief candle!”
18) “So thanks to all at once and to each once,/ Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.”