Language Arts (Scenes and details)

Question 1

Who is the king when the play starts?

Answer 1

Duncan

Question 2

Whom does Macbeth defeat in battle?

Answer 2

The armies of Norway and Ireland

Question 3

What do the witches prophesy?

Answer 3

Macbeth will be king and Banquo’s children will be kings.

Question 4

What title, predicted by the witches, does Macbeth receive?

Answer 4

Thane of Cawdor

Question 5

Who is made heir to Duncan’s throne?

Answer 5

Malcolm (Duncan´s son)

Question 6

What does Lady Macbeth resolve to do?

Answer 6

Whatever necessary to help Macbeth become king

Question 7

What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth lacks?

Answer 7

The manliness to follow through on his ambitions

Question 8

What do Lady Macbeth’s words “unsex me here” mean?

Answer 8

She wants to set aside feminine sentiments that could hinder bloody ambitions.

Question 9

What does Macbeth realize about the consequences of Duncan’s murder?

Answer 9

Other than satisfying his own ambitions, it will make everything worse.

Question 10

What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan?

Answer 10

Macbeth will stab him in his sleep and plant the bloody evidence on the servants.

Question 11

Why is Banquo up late?

Answer 11

He had nightmares about the witches.

Question 12

What eerie vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?

Answer 12

He sees a bloody dagger floating in front of him.

Question 13

What does Macbeth hear a voice saying?

Answer 13

That he murdered sleep

Question 14

Why does Lady Macbeth say she didn’t kill the king herself?

Answer 14

He looked like her father in his sleep.

Question 15

How does Lady Macbeth feel about how Macbeth carried out the murder?

Answer 15

She is ashamed by how scared he acts throughout the ordeal.

Question 16

What does the porter say that drinking causes?

Answer 16

A red nose, sleep, urination, and impotence

Question 17

Who kills the servants who look guilty of the murder?

Answer 17

Macbeth

Question 18

How does Lady Macbeth publicly react to the news of the murder?

Answer 18

She says it is horrible and pretends to faint.

Question 19

Why do Malcom and Donalbain run away from the court?

Answer 19

They fear that they are next to be murdered.

Question 20

Why is Macbeth named king instead of Duncan’s son and heir, Malcom?

Answer 20

Because Malcom’s flight makes him look guilty

Question 21

What does Banquo wonder about the witches’ prophecy?

Answer 21

If his descendents will really become kings

Question 22

How does Macbeth feel about Banquo?

Answer 22

He fears that Banquo and his sons will cut short his reign.

Question 23

What does Macbeth hire three men to do?

Answer 23

Kill Banquo and his son

Question 24

Does Lady Macbeth think this murder of Banquo and his son are necessary?

Answer 24

No, but she’ll help him if he does.

Question 25

Do the assassins succeed in killing Banquo and Fleance?

Answer 25

They kill Banquo but Fleance escapes.

Question 26

How does Macbeth feel about Fleance getting away unharmed?

Answer 26

It leaves him vulnerable.

Question 27

What does Macbeth see when he enters the banquet?

Answer 27

The bloody ghost of Banquo

Question 28

How does Lady Macbeth explain Macbeth’s odd behavior?

Answer 28

She says not to worry because he’s had strange visions since childhood.

Question 29

What does Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, plan for Macbeth?

Answer 29

To show him visions that will falsely make him feel secure

Question 30

Why does Macduff go to England?

Answer 30

To ask King Edward for aid in fighting Macbeth

Question 31

How many apparitions do the witches show Macbeth?

Answer 31

4

Question 32

What does Macbeth do when he hears Macduff has fled to England?

Answer 32

He orders the murder of Macduff’s family.

Question 33

What do Macduff’s wife and son argue about?

Answer 33

Whether Macduff has betrayed them or not

Question 34

What does Malcom say to test Macduff’s loyalty to Scotland?

Answer 34

He says he’s more ambitious, greedy, and bloodthirsty than Macbeth.

Question 35

What does Macduff plan when he hears what happened to his family?

Answer 35

Revenge on Macbeth

Question 36

What does Lady Macbeth obsess over as she goes mad?

Answer 36

Blood she cannot wash off her hands

Question 37

What armies join forces against Macbeth?

Answer 37

The Scottish and the British

Question 38

What does it mean that Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane?

Answer 38

The advancing army rides to Dunsinane holding branches from Birnam wood.

Question 39

In what way is Macduff not of woman born?

Answer 39

He was born by cesarean section.

Question 40

Who kills Macbeth and puts his head on a spike?

Answer 40

Macduff

Question 41

Whose children are prophesied to one day inherit the throne of Scotland?

Answer 41

Banquo´s children

Question 42

Who is Malcom?

Answer 42

Duncan’s son, who becomes king at the end of the play

Question 43

Who is Macduff?

Answer 43

A nobleman who leads the revolt against Macbeth

Question 44

Who first leads Macbeth’s thoughts toward murder as a means to his ambitious ends?

Answer 44

The three witches

Question 45

Which King does Macbeth murder in the beginning of the play?

Answer 45

Duncan

Question 46

What kind of warrior does Macbeth sound like as described by the wounded captain at the beginning of the play?

Answer 46

Honorable, brave, loyal

Question 47

What two impulses are at war with each other within Macbeth’s mind?

Answer 47

Ambition and a sense of wrong

Question 48

How does Lady Macbeth achieve her ambitious plans for Macbeth?

Answer 48

Through manipulation

Question 49

What is the nickname for the three witches that is used by various characters throughout the play?

Answer 49

The weird sisters

Question 50

Which quality best characterizes the witches?

Answer 50

Instinctive evil

Question 51

What does the play suggest happens when one uses violence to attain power?

Answer 51

It begets more violence.

Question 52

What negative attribute is masculinity equated with throughout the play?

Answer 52

Naked aggression

Question 53

What is a true and good king of Scotland supposed to value?

Answer 53

He should be loyal to Scotland above all personal interests.

Question 54

What are most of the witches’ prophecies?

Answer 54

Riddles that are fulfilled

Question 55

What does blood symbolize throughout the play?

Answer 55

Guilt