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Macbeth: Overview

Introduction

Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth," is the bloodiest and most gruesome of all his plays. the play has various, deeper, messages and conundrums that need hard work, but it is a rewarding play.

Table of Contents

This following are the handouts, readings and projects for Macbeth.

Handout Page

Shakespearean Theater C-2

Preview Questions C-3

Macbeth Act I, sc 1,2,3 C-4

Macbeth Act I, sc 4,5 C-7

Macbeth Act I, sc 6,7 C-9

Macbeth Act I, overall C-10

Macbeth Act II, sc 1,2 C-11

Macbeth Act II, sc 3,4 C-14

Macbeth Act II, overall C-16

Macbeth Act III, sc 1,2 C-17

Macbeth Act III, sc 3,4, C-19

Macbeth Act III, sc 5,6 C-21

Macbeth Act III overall C-22

Macbeth Act IV, 1,2,3 C-23

Macbeth Act IV, overall C-26

Macbeth Act V C-27

General Macbeth C-30

Out, Out C-31

Macbeth Exam C-33

Macbeth Feedback C-37

Shakespearean Theater

Introduction

This brief section on Shakespeare and the theater does not tell you anything you shouldn't know already, however it is important to review it.Read pages 108-111 in DWM and then answer the questions

Questions Answer the following questions fully.1. What are the dates when Shakespeare wrote is "best" work?

Look at the Kings and Queens of England chart on Page 1. Who were the rulers during Shakespeare's peak?Who was the ruler during Macbeth?2. Describe (or draw and label) the Globe theater?3. Who were Groundlings? Where did they sit?4. What scenery did the theater have? How did the actors compensate?5. (Thought) Why might there be no girls on stage? 6. What is a "Soliloquy"? An "Aside"?7. Where are James I roots? Do you believe Shakespeare would have used this in the play?8. How is "Macbeth" a play based on the Greeks? Preview Questions

Introduction

The following questions are general, life based questions and don't require reading the play. In a small group, write a one page response to each of these questions.

Thought Write a thoughtful response to each of these

Questions questions.

1. Do you feel that you are fated to do certain things?2. Should a wife be supportive of a husband, or should she be more demanding?3. If the weather is bad, does your mood change?4. What evil or sinful things do you suppose your ancestors have done?

Macbeth: Act I: 1,2,3

Introduction

As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 113 in DWM), please do these questions.

Act I, scene 1

Answer the following questions fully.

Ac t I, scene 2

Answer the following questions fully.1. Who led the rebels? Who beat them? How?2. What title is given Macbeth?3. What are the first words of the King? How do they set the tone for the play?

Act I, scene 3

Answer the following questions fully.1. For their spells, do the witches use earthly things or ethereal things?

Why is that important?Banquo says they are women with beards. What mythological figure was a woman with a beard? How are these witches "bubbles of the earth."2. According to Macbeth, what sort of day is this?Does this show the world to be in order, or out of order?

3. What is predicted for Macbeth

1. How does Shakespeare insure the attention of the audience? 2. Complete the quote "Fair is foul__________" 3. Why are witches female?

For Banquo? How could Banquo be lesser than Macbeth, but greater?Do they believe the witches? Why are they so calm when they speak to the witches?

4. What news does Ross bring Macbeth?Why does that surprise him? What does he start thinking about?

5. Complete this long quote: "To win us to our harm______________________________________________________________________________________________________consequence."

What does it mean? Who are the instruments of harm?What are the honest trifles that will win Macbeth? Could he become king without doing anything?

What is Macbeth

worried about?What thought does Macbeth have that shakes him so?Why doesn't he tell Banquo?How does his silence betray his thoughts and leanings?At the end of the scene, what has Macbeth decided to do?Macbeth: Act I: sc 4,5

Introduction


Act I, scene 4

Answer the following questions fully. 1. What happenned to old Cawdor?

Did he die well or poorly? Quote a line to support your answer.What error did the king make with old Cawdor?Why is that a fatal error for a king to make?2. According to Macbeth, why does he support the king?

6. Look at lines 130-142.

Is he lying right now? Explain.3. Who does the King name as his second in command? According to his soliloquoy, what is Macbeth thinking?Is he still questioning the witches? Explain.Explain lines 49-50.

Act I, scene 5

Answer the following questions fully. 1. What is the general sense of the letter?

What does Lady Mac mean when she says that he is "too full of the milk of human kindness"? Why doesn't she question the existance of these witches? What is she going to do for Macbeth?2. What message does the messenger bring? Why is Lady Macbeth happy about this? Why does she want darkness? Why does she want to be "un-sexed"?

What other literary characters have we tripped across want to be similarly "un-sexed." Are there some things that only men can do? (besides pee out a campfire) Explain.3. What does Lady Macbeth tell Mac to look like (Quote) What has she decided to do? Has he decided to do the same thing? Explain, with a quote.Macbeth: Act I: sc 6,7

Introduction


Act I, scene 6

Answer the following questions fully. 1. How does the king like Macbeth's castle?

Is he making an error here? Explain. Where has this been foreshadowed?

2. Who isn't there to greet the king? Why do you suppose he isn't there?

Act I, scene 7

Answer the following questions fully.1. What is Macbeth thinking of doing?

What is he afraid of?What are two reasons why he should not do what he is thinking?At the end of his speech, is he going to do it?Why is it important that he is alone?

2. What does Lady Macbeth accuse him of being?Why? How does he answer her? (quote) If he kills the king, is he answering the call or isn't he?

Why does Macbeth later tell her to bring forth "men children only."What weakness does Macbeth have?Why might it be so easy for Lady Macbeth to urge Macbeth onWho is more evil: Lady Macbeth or Macbeth? Explain.

Macbeth: Act I: Overall

Introduction

Act I is vitally important in establishing and developing the themes in this play. The rest of the acts pale in importance next to it.

Interpreting

These questions can be found on page 129. Answer them fully. Interpreting: 7, 9, 10

Thought Questions

Answer the following questions fully. 1. So far, in this play, what are the differences between men and women?

3. If Lady Macbeth had this chance, what would she do?

2. If Macbeth were more dominant with his wife, would the ending of the play change? 3. Do you believe the Macbeth's have a strong marriage or a weak one?What qualities make up a strong marriage? 4. Look back at all the references to Heaven in this first act. Describe the god that looks down on them?

Macbeth: Act II, scenes 1,2

Introduction


Act II, scene 1

Answer the following questions fully.1. According to Banquo, what is the night like?

Why is nature so upset? 2. What does Banquo want to talk to Macbeth about?

Why doesn't Macbeth want to talk?How should Banquo take this?Is Macbeth a good assassin? Explain.

3. What does Macbeth see floating in front of him?What is all over it? What is it urging him to do?

Suppose you staged

this play without a real knife in front of Macbeth. what would that say about the witches? About macbeths ambition?If there isn't a knife, is this play still about fate? Explain.

Where have we seen this "fire" before (movie)Why couldn't Lady Macbeth kill Duncan?What is the psychological (deeper) truth under her statement?Where have we seen a similar idea in Eliot?Would Beowulf ever say such a thing?How Is Macbeth better then Beowulf?Why is nature in an uproar?As a director, why must the actors say these lines?

How are Lady and Macbeth acting after the murder? What does this say about them? What did Macbeth bring from the room? Why did he do that?Symbolically, what is that showing? Why does the knocking scare him?

Macbeth: Act II, scenes 3,4

4 Complete the quote: "Words to the heat of deeds _____________" Explain.

Act II, scene 2

Answer the followign questions fully.1. What has give Lady Macbeth fire?

Introduction

As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 134 in DWM), please do these questions. The Porter's speech has been edited by dunderheads and puritan numbskulls. The correct edition has been photocopied and included.

Act II, scene 3

Answer the following questions fully. 1. Where does the Porter imagine he is working?

What sort of condition is the Porter inHow is the Porter partially right?What three things does drinking provoke?Why do you need a humourous touch in this play?Who would you rather have Steven Wright play this role or Bill Murray? Explain. 2. Who discovers the body of the king?Why is it important that he is introduced now?What did Lenox see in the night?

What does the quote "daggers

in men's smiles" mean? How does that echo Lady Macbeth comments earlier? How does that reflect nature?

WhyWhy is that a bad move from

a murderer's standpoint? Why would Macbeth want to do that?

Act II, scene 4

Answer the following questions fully.1. According to the old man, what bizarre things have gone on in the might?

How do those events directly paralell the death of the king?Who is being

blamed for regicide?Why is he going

there and not to Scone?

3. How do Malcolm and Donalbain deal with the news?

4. What does Lady Macbeth do?

5. What does Macbeth do to the guards?

2. Who is going to be crowned king?

3. Where is MacDuff going?

Macbeth Act II: Overview

Introduction

Act II further develops the characters and the conflicts presented in Act I, along with some curious additions

Interpreting

The following questions can be found on page 141. Interpreting: 8, 10, 11, 13

Thought Questions

Answer the following questions fully. 1. If Macbeth is the hero, draw his hero path up till now? What is he being trained for? What skills are being developed? 2. Why was the Porter's speech editedin your (and many other) editions of the text? 3. How is the marriage of Macbeth and his wife strong?

Macbeth: Act III, scenes 1,2

Introduction


Act III, scene 1


1. Does Banquo suspect Macbeth?

What does Banquo similiarly hope for? Where is Banquo going? Why?

2. Complete the quote: "To be thus is nothing, but________________" ; Explain.

Why does he now fear Banquo? Who does he think he has killed Duncan for? How much time to you guess has passed between this scene and the Act II? Why? How is Macbeth different? Would Shakespeare agree with the adage: "Power corrupts."

Who must they kill?

3. Why did Macbeth hire the two men?

Act III, scene 2

Answer the following questions fully. 1. What happens to Lady Macbeth and husband at night? Why?

What do they have to do to their faces (not literally) How else has Macbeth's relationship to his wife changed? Prove this with a quote. Describe the set of the play for this scene. What props and lighting would you have for the best possible effect? Macbeth Act III, scenes 3,4

Introduction


Act III, scene 3

Answer the following questions fully. 1. How many murderers are now present to kill Banquo?

How have they lost "The best half oftheir affair." Who is the third murderer? Why does Shakespeare include this scene and not have this murder happen of stage?

Act III, scene 4


1. Who appears, uninvited, to Macbeth's dinner What does he have on his face? How is his presence a bad idea? What compliment does Macbeth give him?

Macbeth Act III: scenes 5,6

Introduction


Act III, scene 5

Answer the following question fully. 1. Though noone has been able to prove this, this scene is considered spurious. How is Hecate different from Shakespeare's other witches?

4. Once again, how does Lady Macbeth get his attention and insult Mac? Does it work? Using the Macbeth's definition, what qualities of a man does Macbeth lack? Do we still consider those qualities worthy?

2. What does Lady Macbeth ask her husband to do?3. Who next enters, invited but unexpected? How does Macbeth react? How does Lady Macbeth cover for this? What is the "painting of his fear."

5. Who wasn't at the feast? Why not?

6. Where is Macbeth going? How does that show the change in the marriage?

Act III. scene 6

Answer the following questions fully. 1. Who does Lennox think killed Duncan? Is he serious or not? What words establish the tone?

Macbeth: Act III: Overview

Introduction

Act III contains most of the importan events in the story and ends the first part of the play. Acts IV and V are the endgame of the play.

Questions

Answer the following sets of questions fully. They are on page 156. Interpretation: 9, 10, 11, 12 Viewpoint

Macbeth: Act IV, scenes 1, 2, 3

Introduction


Act IV, scene 1

Answer the following questions fully. 1. When Macbeth asks "what is it you do?", how do the witches answer him? Why might that answer have more importance than it appears?

Who was the first namer?How are names important to this play? 2. What are the three predictions for Macbeth?What makes each prediction?How are the speakers important? 3. What do the witches show him about Banquo? Why is that disheartening?What is Banquo's connection to James I?

2. This scene exists mostly so it can convey information to the viewer. What information is conveyed?

4. Complete the Quote: "The firstlings of my heart shall be ____________________________"Explain. How is this a change for him What did he say that was different from this? (Please Quote) Is Macbeth getting more or less human? What does he plan on doing?

Act IV, scene 2

Answer the following questions fully.1. Why does Lady MacDuff curse her husband?

How do "our fears make us traitors."How is MacDuff different from the Wren? Explain the line "father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless."

2. Describe the son?Why is he drawn this way? Is he witty? How would the audience feel about Macbeth after this scene? What are the sons last lines Why must he say them?

Act IV, scene 3

Answer the following questions fully.1. What is ironic about MacDuff's first speech?

Who is energized? Who is depressed?What are the three faults Malcolm lists off? Complete the quote: "Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids________________________"Does he really have these faults?This is, at the beginning, a light scene. Why would Shakespeare put this light scene right after a violent murder?

3. Describe the king of England?Why does he have these healing powers (Think question) How is he different from Macbeth?

4. What state is Scotland in? Where are we on the hero path? Why does he lie about MacDuff's children?

5. How does MacDuff react to the news?

2. Does Malcolm want to be king?

Why is it important that he can't speak initially? What does Malcolm beg him to act like? How does MacDuff answer him? How does MacDuff's definition of a "man" differ from Malcolm's? Which one would be closer to Lady MacBeth's definition? Which definition is better?

Macbeth: Act IV: Overall

Introduction

Act IV has very little going on, in terms of plot, but a great deal in terms of development, particularly interms of gender and nature.

Interpreting

Answer the following questions fully. They can be found on page 173 in DWM. Interpreting: 5, 6, 9

Thought Questions

Answer the following questions fully. 1. Draw a hero path for MacDuff?

What is his call? When did the call first come to him? What is the strange world? What has Macbeth become?

2. How are the witches feminine spirits? 3. How does Lady MacDuff differ from Lady Macbeth?

Which one is a stronger woman?

Macbeth: Act V

Introduction

Act V is the final act in the play, where all the elements get drawn together. Although it is a collection of breif scenes, they are all meant to run together. The last act begins on page 175.

Act V Answer the following questions fully. 1. According to the Gentlewoman, what does Lady Macbeth do?

What does she do to her hands? Why? What does she speak of?Who does she appear to be speaking to? What could you interpret from her words?

2. How has Macbeth changed?

Where did we see this change begin? What will Macbeth's old age be like?

3. What is wrong with Lady Macbeth according to the Dr.

What advice does he give? What does Macbeth want to happen?How is Macbeth's little speech and extension of the washing metaphor?

4. What Instruction does Malcolm give? How does that prove one of the witches predictions? In the symbolic reading, how are the trees important?

5. How does Macbeth plan on repelling the troops?What does Macbeth hear? How does he react?

6. Complete the quote :"Life's but a walking shadow_______________________________________"

What does it mean? How has Macbeth's mood been swinging wildly?Is his speech Existentialist?

7. Who does Macbeth fight with first? How does naming become important again? How is Young Siward doomed?

8. Does Macbeth want to fight MacDuff?Explain How was MacDuff born? What sort of surrender does MacDuff offer?How is Macbeth's response strong?

9. How did Young Siward die, according to Rosse?

Why does that hearten the King? How is that 'Manliness" similar to Macbeth's or MacDuff's?

10. Who will be King?Why is "time free" now? What plot problem does that present?Why do they need to bring Macbeth's head back on stage? General Macbeth

Introducti Mary McCarthy was an important writer and critic

on from the 1950's. This essay was a transcribed from a lecture she gave at Smith College on the play, and crystallizes an unusual and perceptive view of the work.Please read the essay, then answer the following questions.

Questions

Answer the following questions fully.1. How is Macbeth's tragic flaw his lack of imagination?2. Why is McCarthy so sure Macbeth is Lady Mac's second husband? 3. How do Macbeth's endearments come off as trite? 4. How does Lady Macbeth have imagination? How does it haunt her? 5. What is Macbeth's main concern throughout the play? 6. How is Lady Mac a monster? How is it that Macbeth is not? 7. How does Macbeth's isolation begin? 8. How does Macbeth act like an executive or a politician? 9. What is her opinion about Macbeth's soliloquoy's? Explain. 10. What is poetry turned to an ulterior motive? 11. How is this play "natural"? 12. Who is the contemporary Macbeth Describe him

Out, Out...

Introduction

Robert Frost wrote this poem about a tragic death that he read about in Vermont. The play "Macbeth" is only mention in the title, yet it runs through this entire poem.

Questions Answer the following questions fully. 1. What is the plot of this poem? 2. The poem begins with personification (or beastifcation). What is it?

What is the effect that creates?

3. What does the phrase "And nothing happenned." imply?

After you have finished the poem, how does that phrase have a different effect?

What is Frost's tone? How does the sentence structure accentuate that tone?

5. Define the word "ether" 6. How does the boy die?

Why the phrase "No more to build on there."7. What does his family do, now that the boy is dead?

Though t Question

Answer the following questions fully. 1. What does this poem have to do with 'Macbeth"2. Why does Frost begin with a lyrical, natural description?3. How does Frost use nature here? How is that use different from Shakespeare's?

Macbeth: Individual Exam

Introduction

The following exam is designed to test both your knowledge of the play and your ability to understand the concepts the play deals with.Work quickly and thoroughly

Definitions

Define and give examples of the following words. 1. Personification 2. Irony 3. Foreshadowing 4. Existentialist 5. Groundling 6. Soliloquy 7. Aside

Character matching

Pick the best possible answer. One character and one clue are not used.

d__MacDuff a. Former King b__Macbeth b. Present King__Lady Macbeth c. Far off Future King

4. How does Frost describe the hand getting cut off?

e__The Porter d. Not of Woman bornf__Young Siward e. Worked in "hell"i__Lady Macduff f. Macbeth killed him in battlec__Fleance g. Next Kingg__Malcolm h. Fathered a line of Kingh__Banquo i. Gave birtha__Duncan j. Witch??

Object Identify

Identify the following objects. How were they important to the play? Example:Bird: Brought message to King of China

1. Dagger 2. Severed head 3. Birnam Wood 4. Dunsinane 5. Cawdor 6. Line of Kings 7. A potent brew 8. Horses eating each other 9. A third murderer 10. a bloody ghost

Quote Identify

Identify the following quotes fully. Who said them and why are they significant?

Example:"And to the Republic, for which it stands....": Homer when he says the pledge of allegiance to his mother.

4. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." 5. "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. Unsex me here and fill me top to toe with direst cruelty."6. "If it were done, when it was done, then it were well it were done quickly."7. "Be innocent ofthe knowledge, dearest chuck."8. "Lechery sir, it proviokes and it unprovokes." 9."Your wives, your daughters,your matrons and your

1. "...a poor player that struts and frets his hour on stage and thenis heard no more." 2. "A deed without a name." 3. "I will answer it like a man, but first I must feel it like a man."

maids could not fill up the cisterns of my lust."10. "Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full of the milk of human kindness."11. "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grasp."12. "Thou hast it now. King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the wierd sisters prmised and I fear thou played most foully for it."13. "There are daggers in men's smiles."14. "Your face, my thane, is as a book wheremen may read strange matters."15. "They have murdered me, mother."

Close Read

Read the following passage from the play and answer the questions fully.

1. What similes or metaphors does Lady Macbeth use in this speech? How are they important? 2. What other literary devices does Lady Macbeth use? How are they effective? ( I see three) 3. From reading this speech, How would Lady Macbeth define the word "Man." 4. How would Lady Macbeth define the term "woman."

5. According to his brief response, how would Macbeth define what a man is? 6. What other literary characters would align themselves with Macbeth? With his wife?

Macbeth: Feedback

Introduction

Feedback gives you the opportunity to comment on the work you have just studied and how you studied it. Your answers will affect how I teach Macbeth in the future.

The Work Answer the following questions by marking a number between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1 means you are heavily bummed. • How well did you enjoy studying the play? ___ • Compared to other works you have studies, howhard was "Macbeth"? ___ • How important do you feel this play is to the Herounit? ___

The unit Answer the following questions by marking a number between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1 means you are heavily bummed. • How hard were the homeworks? ___

• How hard were the quizzes? ___ • How hard was the other work? ___

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Open ended Questions

Answer these questions with a short phrase or sentence. • Did you use any other tools (video, Cliff notes, oral tapes) to help you understand this play? • What could I do tomake this play more interesting or accessible for students? • Did you do any of the challenges that relate to this play? • Did you write any essays that relate to this play? • What was your grade on the exam?

Other Thoughts

Do you have other thoughts or concerns about the class or the work?If so, please put them right here.

Guess Paper – 2010

Class – XIISubject –English Paper - 2

Time – 2½ Hours.Full Marks – 100.Answer of Question 1 is compulsory from Section A and three questions from Section B. InSection B choose questions from at least two text books.Section – A

Question – 1. Choose ANY TWO passages and answer the questions briefly : - [25]

(a)Duncan : My plenteous joy, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselvesIn drops of sorrow, Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places arethe nearest, know,……………….. which honour must Not unaccompanied invest only,But sings of nobleness, like

stars shall shineOn all deservers.(i)Where is the speaker ? Who else are present with him ?(ii)Which four groups of people does Duncan address ?(iii)What does Duncan proclaim ? Give two examples.(iv)What does Duncan say to Macbeth after this extract ? How does the declaration provefatal for Duncan.

(b) Macbeth :So is he mine; and in such bloody distanceThat every minute of his being thrustsAgainst my near’st of life, and thought I couldWith bare-fac’d power sweep himfrom my sightAnd bid my will avouch it, Yet I must not.(i)What has the listerner said for Macbeth to start his speech with ‘so’?(ii)Identify ‘he’ and state the reason of Macbeth’s disquiet state of mind because of him.(iii)Why will Macbeth not use his bare face’d power ? What must he himself, do after hisenemy’s fall ?(iv)

How has Macbeth incited his listener against their common enemy?(c) Lady Macbeth : Out damned spot I Out say one, two then ‘til time do’t. Hell is murky my lord, fie asoldier and afearel. What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account. Yetwho would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him.Doctor : Do you mark that ?Lady M : The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?(i)In which mental condition does lady Macbeth speak in the scene? While past incidentsare referred to in the following passage?(ii)Why does Lady M say there is no need to fear why do you think she is rubbing her hand?(iii)Who is the old man and who is the thane of Fife in reality. What has happened to them?(iv)How does Macbeth react to hear Lady Macbeth’s death soon after this extract?Section – B.Macbeth (Shakespeare) [25 Marks]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------www.icseguess.comOther Educational Portalswww.cbseguess.com | www.ignouguess.com | www.dulife.com | www.magicsense.com

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Question – 2. In the beginning Lady Macbeth plays a pivotal role in guiding the actions of Macbeth but atthe end she degenerates into a mental wreek. Justify the statement making a comparature study of hercharacter before and after the murder of Duncan.Question – 3. How does the scene between Lady Macduff and her son touch the reader’s heart? Compareand contrast Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff.Timeless Short Stories

(Compiled by T. W. Phillips)Question – 4. “The whole misery of the world seemed to be weighing all about and above me. And yet thesuffering one seemed to laugh at all”. Howfar is this statement true about Javni and the auther.Question – 5. Examine the responses of the native residents of Miguel Street to the arrival of the PortugeseCouple. Toni and Angela and their strange relationship in V.S. Naipaul’s short story ‘Love Love LoveAlone’.Question – 6. How successfully did the writer bring out the humour in the story leaves in Spring Time.

ISC Poetry (W.R. Gardens)Question – 7. How did the poet, Ruskin Bond meet each one of the friends mentioned in the poem, TheStory of Lost Friends? What were his feelings on parting with each of them?Question – 8. “Each in his narrow cell for ever laid The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep”.(i)What are Gray’s reflections on the lives of the simple village people buried in the countryChurchyard?(ii)Account briefly for the poems’ universal appeal.Question – 9. Give a critical appreciation of the poem ‘Hotnoon in Malabar’.Paper By : Mr. M.P.KeshriEmail Id:- [email protected] No. 09434150289-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------www.icseguess.com

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