Macbeth - - Sheridan

Question 1

Who is the person that is crowned king at the end of the play?

Answer 1

Malcolm

Question 2

Who is the leader of the witches?

Answer 2

Hecate

Question 3

Who was the brave English soldier, in his first military campaign, fighting alongside his warlike father and discovers Macbeth in his castle and is killed by Macbeth?

Answer 3

Young Siward

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Banquo

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Malcolm

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Lady Macbeth

Question 7

Who was a great King of Scotland is well loved and wrongfully killed?

Answer 7

Duncan

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Lady Macduff

Question 9

Who is the tragic hero who starts the play noble but deteriorates into a vile and tyrannical figure?

Answer 9

Macbeth

Question 10

Who is the Scottish thane who travels to England and leaves his family to ask the rightful heir of the Scottish throne to fight against Macbeth?

Answer 10

Macduff

Question 11

Who is the doctor who said that to cure a diseased mind “therein the patient must minister to himself”?

Answer 11

Scottish Doctor

Question 12

Who is the son of a second slaughtered man who flees the country following the examples of two other orphaned sons before him?

Answer 12

Fleance

Question 13

What is the name of the characters that introduce Macbeth in the play?

Answer 13

Weird sisters

Question 14

Who was the Scottish nobleman who is a minor character but acts as the messenger to the other major characters?

Answer 14

Ross

Question 15

Who chants spells and dance around cauldrons?

Answer 15

Weird sisters

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Malcolm

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Macbeth

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Siward

Question 19

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

Answer 19

English Doctor

Question 20

Who carries a candle out of fear?

Answer 20

Lady Macbeth

Question 21

Who is the drunken gate-keeper at Inverness who says he is the “gate-keeper to hell”?

Answer 21

Porter

Question 22

Who is consumed by guilt and sleepwalks in Act 5 - eventually commits suicide?

Answer 22

Lady Macbeth

Question 23

Who is Macbeth’s enemy - according to the first apparition?

Answer 23

Macduff

Question 24

What is the name of Duncan’s younger son who fled the country after his father’s murder?

Answer 24

Donalban

Question 25

Who are the men hired to do Macbeth's dirty work in relations to Banquo and the Macduff's

Answer 25

murderers

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Ambition

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Norway

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Candle

Question 29

Who committed treason at the beginning of the play?

Answer 29

The Thane of Cawdor

Question 30

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

Answer 30

execution

Question 31

What does Lady Macbeth pray to supernatural powers to take away from her so that she may be able to do what needs to be done?

Answer 31

Femininity

Question 32

What is the name of the Scottish noblemen who led the Scots to victory in the beginning of the play?

Answer 32

Macbeth and Banquo

Question 33

Finish the following: "By the pricking of my thumbs something ______ this way comes"?

Answer 33

Wicked

Question 34

What does Lady Macbeth call her husband that pushes him toward certainty - when he wants to cancel the murder?

Answer 34

Coward

Question 35

What does Macbeth envisions before him pointing the way toward Duncan?

Answer 35

A bloody Dagger

Question 36

What is the plan with the murder weapon?

Answer 36

To plant it one the guards

Question 37

Why won't the guards remember anything about the night of the murder?

Answer 37

Lady Macbeth drugged their wine

Question 38

Where does Donalbain flee to after the murder of his father?

Answer 38

Ireland

Question 39

What does Lady do when the murder of Duncan is discovered by Macduff?

Answer 39

She faints

Question 40

What does King Edward supple the Scottish rebels with?

Answer 40

10,000 soldiers

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Banquo

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Put his trust in Macbeth to solve the murder

Question 43

What are some reasons that Macbeth has to NOT kill Duncan?

Answer 43

Too risky - - he could lose everything King Duncan is like a father to him King Duncan is well-loved by the people

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Will be King in the hereafter | Will be the Thane of Cawdor

Question 45

What is the climax of the play?

Answer 45

The death or murder of Duncan

Question 46

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

Answer 46

He is in the middle of an attack | He lost all humanity at this point

Question 47

What does the candle symbolize for Lady Macbeth and Macbeth?

Answer 47

The light through the evil or darkness | Death

Question 48

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

Answer 48

He has them killed because of the 1st apparition - claiming that Macduff is his enemy

Question 49

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

Answer 49

His anger and loyalty

Question 50

Why does Macbeth need to kill Banquo and Fleance?

Answer 50

The prediction of the witches that Banquo's sons will be the kings

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Because he hasn't go much sleep

Question 52

How does Shakespeare incorporate real historical context into Macbeth - how and why did Shakespeare change the details of history in Macbeth?

Answer 52

Macbeth is a real person King Duncan is a real person Real Macbeth ruled for 14 years and was well liked King Duncan was murdered in history Real Macbeth lived during King Duncan's reign There was a war between Scotland and Norway Was said to be written for King James Banquo is ancestor of King James King James was interested in witches

Question 53

In the space provided describe each one of the three apparitions and what they tell Macbeth in Act IV - describe how each of these apparitions came to life?

Answer 53

1st apparitions - - Armed head - - beware of Macduff Macduff eventually killed Macbeth 2nd apparitions - - Bloody child - - no man born of woman shall harm Macbeth Macduff was ripped or C-section from his mother's womb 3rd apparition - - Child crowned holding tree - - Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam woods march up against Dunsinane - - Malcolm has his soldiers cut down trees to disguise the number of soldier and march on Dunsiname

Question 54

Who was at fault for Macbeth's actions? | Be able to defend your position

Answer 54

Macbeth Lady Macbeth Macduff Duncan