What does Macbeth do to Macdonald after he defeats him? | cuts off his head and places it on the battlements |
What new title does Macbeth receive early in Act 1? | Thane of Cawdor |
The Weird Sisters greet Macbeth as… | Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King Hereafter |
How do the Weird Sisters greet Banquo? | “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.” |
Who does Duncan name his successor? | Malcom |
Lady Macbeth calls on supernatural powers to… | “unsex me here” |
Who will the Macbeth’s frame as Duncan’s murderer? | Duncan’s bodyguards |
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth “When you durst do it, then….” | you were a man |
What does Lady Macbeth say she would do with her child if she had to? | dash its brains out |
What does Banquo think about the witches’ predictions? | He dreams that they may come true, but he will do nothing about them |
What does Macbeth think he sees floating in front of him as he goes to kill Duncan? | a bloody dagger |
What can’t Macbeth say when he hears the bodyguards praying? | “Amen” |
Where does the porter imagine he is guarding the gate? | the gate to Hell |
Who discovers Duncan’s body? | Macduff |
What do Malcolm and Donalbain decide they will do when Duncan is murdered? | Flee to England and Ireland |
Who is proclaimed king after Duncan is murdered? | Macbeth |
Who will kill Banquo? | two murderers |
Two two murderers are joined by…. | a third murderer |
What is going on at Macbeth’s castle while the murderers are killing Banquo? | a feast |
What vision does Macbeth see at the table? | Banquo’s ghost |
What does the first apparition tell Macbeth? | “Beware Macduff!” |
What does the second apparition tell Macbeth? | “none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” |
What does the third apparition tell Macbeth? | that he will fall when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane |
What is the last vision that the witches show Macbeth? | a procession of eight kings |
Who warns Lady macduff to leave her house? | a messenger |
Who kills Macbeth? | Macduff |
How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play? | 3 |
Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan? | Duncan’s drunken chamberlains |
Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death? | she dies offstage |
Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet? | Banquo’s ghost |
With whom are the Scots at war with at the beginning of the play? | Norway |
Which nation’s army invades Scotland at the end of the play? | England |
Who is the goddess of witchcraft in the play? | Hecate |
Who kills Donalbain? | No one |
What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies? | she is plagued by fits of sleepwalking |
Who kills Lord Siward’s son? | Macbeth |
Where are the Scottish kings crowned? | Scone |
Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the witches’ prophecy? | he was born by cesarean section |
Where is Duncan killed? | In his bedchamber at Macbeth’s caslte |
Who flees from Scotland to join Malcolm in England? | Macduff |
What was the weather like the night Duncan was murdered? | stormy and violent |
Who kills Lady Macbeth? | Lady Macbeth |
Who flees Scotland immediately after Duncan’s death? | Malcolm and Donalbain |
Who tells Macduff that his family has been killed? | Ross |
How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane? | Malcom’s army hides behind cut-off tree branches |
Who is Duncan? | King of Scotland; killed by Macbeth |
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain? | Duncan’s sons; after Duncan’s death they flee Scotland |
Who is Macbeth? | Thane of Glamis & Cawdor; general in the king’s army; receives prophecy from 3 witches that he will become king; kills Duncan; reigns as King of Scotland until his death |
Who is Lady Macbeth? | Macbeth’s wife; bloodthirsty lust for power/wealth; manipulates Macbeth to kill Duncan; shows no remorse for her crimes |
Who is Seyton? | Macbeth’s servent |
Who are the Three Murderers? | hired by Macbeth to kill Banquo, Fleance, Lady Macduff, and Macduff’s son |
Who is Banquo? | Thane of Lochaber; general in Duncan’s army; subject of the Three Witches’ prophecy (he was told he will not become king but his sons will) |
Who is Fleance? | Banquo’s son; escapes murderers sent to kill him by Macbeth |
Who is Macduff? | Thane of Fife; Scottish nobleman; when English army marches on Dunsinane, he is the one who kills Macbeth in a duel; born by the equivalent of a C-section |
Who is Lady Macduff? | Macduff’s wife; foil for Lady Macbeth’s lack of feminine sympathies; killed with her children after Macduff flees Scotland |
Who is Lennox? | Scottish noble; often questions Macbeth’s tyrannical rule |
Who is Ross? | Macbeth’s cousin; Scottish noble; turns on Macbeth and sides with Malcolm/English forces |
Who are Angus, Menteith, and Caithness? | Scottish nobles who join Malcom and the English forces in opposing Macbeth |
Who is Siward? | Earl of Northumberland;Duncan’s brother; leads English army against Macbeth |
Who is Young Siward? | Siward’s son; killed by Macbeth in battle |
Who is Hecate? | queen of the witches |
The Witches (The Weird Sisters) | witches who foresee Macbeth’s ascent to power and his defeat; foresee succession of Banquo’s line |
Macbeth
August 18, 2019