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Cumulative Exam — Cumulative exam

Question 25 • PBCSD_CR_1001345_English 2_for_Credit_Recovery_S1andS2_2025

Read the passage from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? the Thane of Cawdor lives,A prosperous gentleman; and to be kingStands not within the prospect of beliefNo more than to be Cawdor. Say, from whenceYou owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our wayWith such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish.] Banquo. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,And these are of them. Whither are they vanish’d? Macbeth. Into the air, and what seem’d corporal meltedAs breath into the wind. Would they had stay’d! Banquo. Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

Answer
A
to determine what Macbeth thinks of the prophecies
B
to see if the three witches will call out to him in reply
C
to explain that he does not believe in witchcraft or magic
D
to emphasize the strange disappearance of the three witches
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