Macbeth Act 3

Question 1

Question: What is the setting of Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 1

Answer: The royal palace at Forres.

Question 2

Question: Who paces and contemplates the prophecies of the witches in Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 2

Answer: Banquo.

Question 3

Question: Whom does Macbeth hire to kill Banquo and Fleance?

Answer 3

Answer: Murderers.

Question 4

Question: In Act 3, Scene 2, who expresses despair and sends a servant to fetch her husband?

Answer 4

Answer: Lady Macbeth.

Question 5

Question: What does Macbeth plan to do during the feast in Act 3, Scene 2?

Answer 5

Answer: Eliminate threats to his throne by arranging Banquo’s murder.

Question 6

Question: Where does Banquo’s murder take place in Act 3, Scene 3?

Answer 6

Answer: In a wooded park outside the palace.

Question 7

Question: Who escapes the murderers in Act 3, Scene 3?

Answer 7

Answer: Fleance.

Question 8

Question: In Act 3, Scene 4, who sees Banquo’s ghost at the feast?

Answer 8

Answer: Macbeth.

Question 9

Question: What does Hecate plan to do to deceive Macbeth in Act 3, Scene 5?

Answer 9

Answer: Summon visions and spirits to fill him with a false sense of security.

Question 10

What does Banquo do before attending the feast he was invited to?

Scene 1

Answer 10

Banquo accepts their invitation and says that he plans to go for a ride on his horse for the afternoon.

Question 11

What’s the issue that Macbeth wants to discuss with Banquo?

Scene 1

Answer 11

Macbeth mentions that they should discuss the problem of Malcolm and Donalbain. The brothers have fled from Scotland and may be plotting against his crown.

Question 12

What is Banquo thinking about whilst pacing around in the royal Palace of Foress?

Scene 1

Answer 12

Banquo paces and thinks about the coronation of Macbeth and the prophecies of the weird sisters. If the first prophecy came true, Banquo thinks, why not the second?

Question 13

What is the soliloquoy that Macbeth starts after the servant has gone to fetch men who came to meet him?

Scene 1

Answer 13

He muses on the subject of Banquo, reflecting that his old friend is the only man in Scotland whom he fears. He notes that if the witches’ prophecy is true, his will be a “fruitless crown,” by which he means that he will not have an heir.

Question 14

Who are the men that the servant went to fetch?

Scene 1

Answer 14

Macbeth reminds the two men, who are murderers he has hired, of a conversation he had with them the day before, in which he chronicled the wrongs Banquo had done them in the past.

They finna kill Banquo

Question 15

Who says that he might have a fruitless crown?

Scene 1

Answer 15

Macbeth notes that if the witches’ prophecy is true, his will be a “fruitless crown,”

Question 16

Who says that their mind is full of scorpions (because of the discontent)?

Scene 2

Answer 16

Macbeth

Question 17

Who planned “a deed of dreadful note” for Banquo and Fleance?

Scene 2

Answer 17

Macbeth

Question 18

Who was killed by the murders?

Scene 3

Answer 18

Banquo only

Question 19

Why is Macbeth angry, although Banquo was killed?

Scene 4

Answer 19

Because Fleance wasn’t killed

Question 20

Who said “the worm that’s fled / Hath nature that in time will venom breed” and why?

Scene 4

Answer 20

Macbeth, because Fleance wasn’t killed

Question 21

Why did Macbeth seem insane?

Scene 4

Answer 21

Because he saw Banquo’s ghost in the banquet

Question 22

Who said “I have a strange infirmity which is nothing / To those that know me”, and why?

Scene 4

Answer 22

Macbeth, because he appeared ti be going crazy.

Question 23

Who says “blood will have blood”?

Scene 4

Answer 23

Macbeth

Question 24

Who does Macbeth plan to meet in order to know more about his future?

Scene 4

Answer 24

The witches

Question 25

Who says “I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er” ?

Scene 4

Answer 25

Macbeth

Question 26

What does Hecate, the leader of witches declare the three witches should do upon meeting Macbeth?

Scene 5

Answer 26

She tells them to send spirits and visions to fill him with a false sense of security and “draw him on to his confusion”.

Question 27

Who in Scotland walks in talking about what happened to the kingdom?

Scene 6

Answer 27

Lennox and another guy

Question 28

Who was thought to be the person who killed Banquo, and why?

Scene 6

Answer 28

Fleance, probably because he fled

Question 29

What do Lennox and the other guy suspect of Macbeth?

Scene 6

Answer 29

That he killed Banquo and King Duncan, whom they called a tyrant

Question 30

What does the other guy tell Lennox?

Scene 6

Answer 30

The lord tells Lennox that Macduff has gone to England, where he will join Malcolm in pleading with England’s King Edward for aid.

Question 31

What does Macbeth plan after hearing the plans?

Scene 6

Answer 31

He plans for war

Question 32

What are Lennox and the other guy hopeful of?

Scene 6

Answer 32

Lennox and the guy express their hope that Malcolm and Macduff will be successful and that their actions can save Scotland from Macbeth.