Macbeth

Question 1

According to the first apparition - - who is Macbeth’s enemy?

Answer 1

Macduff

Question 2

Who is Duncan’s younger son who fled the country after his father’s murder?

Answer 2

Doalbain

Question 3

What is the name given to the men who were hired to do Macbeth’s dirty work in relation to Banquo and the Macduff’s?

Answer 3

3 murderers

Question 4

What is the name of the second slaughtered man who flees the country, following the examples to two other orphaned sons before him?

Answer 4

Fleance

Question 5

What is the name of the tragic hero who starts the play NOBLE but deteriorates into a vile and tyrannical figure?

Answer 5

Macbeth

Question 6

Who is the wife of a Scottish Thane who is viciously murdered alongside of her helpless children and all who cross paths with the hired murderers?

Answer 6

Lady Macduff

Question 7

What is the name of the Great King of Scotland, - was well-loved and wrongfully killed?

Answer 7

Duncan

Question 8

Who is the wife of a powerful and well-respected Thane - - has a very strong personality and decides what is best for their future in Act 1?

Answer 8

Lady Macbeth

Question 9

What is the name of Duncan’s oldest son and the rightful heir to the Scottish throne?

Answer 9

Malcolm

Question 10

Who is the noble and brave Captain in the Scottish army who shall - - “get kings” though “he be none”?

Answer 10

Banquo

Question 11

Who was the brave English soldier, who was in his first military campaign - fighting along side his warlike father and was killed in battle by Macbeth?

Answer 11

Young Siward

Question 12

Who are the the character that introduce Macbeth in the play?

Answer 12

3 witches

Question 13

Who is the leader of the witches?

Answer 13

Hecate

Question 14

Who is consumed by guilt and commits suicide?

Answer 14

Lady Macbeth

Question 15

Who chants spells and dances around cauldrons?

Answer 15

3 witches

Question 16

Who orders his Scottish and English troops to cut down trees to disguise their numbers?

Answer 16

Siward

Question 17

Who carries a candle out of fear?

Answer 17

Lady Macbeth

Question 18

Who orders the murder of several people after putting his faith in supernatural predictions?

Answer 18

Macbeth

Question 19

Who is the warlike English Lord who, alongside Malcolm and his son, leads the charge against Macbeth at Dunsinane?

Answer 19

Siward

Question 20

Who is the doctor who praises the English King and his healing powers?

Answer 20

English Doctor

Question 21

Who is Scotland at war with at the beginning of Macbeth?

Answer 21

Norway

Question 22

What does Macbeth possess - - the one quality that pushes him to murder over all the objections?

Answer 22

vaulting ambition

Question 23

What is the plan?

Answer 23

To plant the murder weapon on the guards

Question 24

Why won’t the guards remember anything?

Answer 24

Because Lady Macbeth drugged their wine

Question 25

What does Macbeth envision?

Answer 25

A bloody dagger - pointing the way toward Duncan

Question 26

What does Lad Macbeth call her husband when he wants to call off the murder?

Answer 26

A coward

Question 27

Complete the following quote: "By the pricking of my thumbs . . . . .

Answer 27

Something wicked this way comes

Question 28

Who were the two noble captains who led the Scots to victory in war?

Answer 28

Macbeth and Banquo

Question 29

Why does Lady Macbeth pray to supernatural powers?

Answer 29

To take away her femininity - so she can do what needs to be done

Question 30

Who has committed treason at the beginning of the play?

Answer 30

The Thane of Cawdor

Question 31

What is the Thane of Cawdor's punishment for treason?

Answer 31

Death

Question 32

What does Lady Macbeth carry around with her at all times after Act III - - especially at night when she is in one of her fits?

Answer 32

A candle

Question 33

What does Macbeth see sitting at his place at the banquet table?

Answer 33

The ghost of Banquo

Question 34

Just after Duncan's murder - - the Porter at the Macbeth castle compares himself to the gatekeeper of _________

Answer 34

Hell

Question 35

Who return to Scotland with the help of warlike Siward and his son?

Answer 35

Malcolm

Question 36

What does Malcolm take with him when he returns to Scotland?

Answer 36

10,000 English soldiers

Question 37

What happens to Lady Macbeth when the murder of Duncan is discovered by Macduff? - - this way she looks INNOCENT

Answer 37

She faints

Question 38

After the murder of their father - - where does Donalbain and Malcolm flee to?

Answer 38

Donalbain - - to Ireland | Malcolm - - to England

Question 39

What are the three predictions made by the witches in ACT 1 for Macbeth?

Answer 39

1. All Hail Macbeth 2. Thane of Cawdor 3. Future King

Question 40

List three reasons that Macbeth has for NOT killing Duncan?

Answer 40

1. He is the host 2. He is his kinsmen 3. Macbeth is one of his subjects

Question 41

What does Banquo wish to do after the murder of Duncan?

Answer 41

Investigate the murder

Question 42

How does Lady Macbeth explain away Macbeth's hallucination during a dinner party?

Answer 42

He has been like that since he was young - - he does it when he is afraid

Question 43

Why does Macbeth need to kill Banquo and Fleance?

Answer 43

Because of the three witches prediction - - that Banquo's descendants will be king - and he has to eliminate them (all his descendants)

Question 44

List three UNNATURAL occurrences in Scotland after the murder of King Duncan?

Answer 44

1. Dark night strangles the sun 2. Falcon was killed by an owl 3. Horses acted like they were at war with mankind - ate each other

Question 45

What reason did Macbeth give for viciously killing Duncan's guards?

Answer 45

So that they would not have to defend themselves - - when they were innocent of the murder.

Question 46

What does Macbeth do to the Macduff's and why?

Answer 46

Kills them - - because of the apparition

Question 47

What does the candle symbolize for Macbeth? "Out brief Candle"

Answer 47

Life

Question 48

Why is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death so understated?

Answer 48

Because he can understand how terrible she felt about their rise to power (KING/QUEEN) - - she was consumed with quilt and so was he.

Question 49

What is the climax of the play - - defend your answer

Answer 49

The death of Macbeth All the events lead up to his death - - all his plotting, schemes, the murders etc. After his death Malcolm will restore Scotland to what is once was under his father's kingship

Question 50

Why will Malcolm be a better king that Macbeth - be specific

Answer 50

He was going to name earls, thanes, kinsmen for their courage - - call home all the exiled people and bring to justice all those who were loyal to Macbeth

Question 51

Who said - - "Screw your courage to the sticking place."

Answer 51

Lady Macbeth

Question 52

Who said - - "Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou still has served tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped."

Answer 52

Macduff

Question 53

Who said - - "I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet and to be baited with the rabble's curse"

Answer 53

Macbeth

Question 54

Who said - - "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thought unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty."

Answer 54

Lady Macbeth

Question 55

Who said - - "Double, Double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble?"

Answer 55

The three witches

Question 56

Who said - - "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other"?

Answer 56

Macbeth

Question 57

Who said - - "Thou hast it now - - King, Cawdoe, Glamis all as the Weird Sisters promised, and I fear thou played'st most foully for 't"?

Answer 57

Banquo

Question 58

Who said - - "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him."?

Answer 58

Hecate - - in the third apparition

Question 59

Who said - - "Out, damned spot, out I say! . . . Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?"

Answer 59

Lady Macbeth

Question 60

Describe the three apparitions and what they tell Macbeth in Act IV - - how did they come to life.

Answer 60

1. Armor head - - beware of Macduff Macduff end up leading the charge to get rid of Macbeth 2. A bloody child - - no one born of a woman will ever harm Macbeth Macduff was born by c-section - - he was ripped from his mother's womb 3. A child with a crown/and tree in his hands Macbeth will not be defeated until the Birnam Woods march to fight - - Siward and his troops break off branches to hold in front of them to conceal how many soldiers they have.

Question 61

Describe Lady Macbeth's down fall? How did she behave in regards to the murder of King Duncan - - was she content after becoming queen - - why didn't Macbeth involve her in future murder decisions - how was she behaving in Act IV - - what was she trying to clean - - what was the reason for her downfall

Answer 61

1. She planned the murder of King Duncan (she WANTED to be QUEEN) 2. She wanted to be queen so bad that she pushed Macbeth into agreeing to the plan 3. She had a lot of quilt - - she was not happy as the queen - she was very anxious 4. Macbeth did not involve her because he wanted to enjoy the day, celebrate and rejoice that the murder was finally over. 5. She was paranoid - - she tried to wash off the "spot" of Duncan's blood from her hands 6. She begins to sleep walk 7. She carries a light with her (candle) 8. Ultimately her downfall was her own quilt

Question 62

Who was a falter for Macbeth's actions? Defend you postition

Answer 62

Macbeth He believed in what the witches predicted His drive and ambition Following the direction of his wife He has free will - - but chose to carry out the plan