Barren wasteland of the witches | Heath |
Macbeth’s castle | Inverness |
Duncan’s castle | Forres |
Country this story takes place in | Scotland |
Will be the father of kings | Banquo |
Prince of Cumberland | Malcolm |
Malcolm’s father | Duncan |
Willfully consorts with demons | Lady macbeth |
Speak in riddles/ meddlesome | Witches |
Promoted to thane of Cawdor | Macbeth |
T/F: initial scene of witches and war create a sense of evil | True |
T/F: Lady Macbeth hears of her husband’s promotion through a letter | True |
T/F: a raven is used to convey a sense of death in Act I | True |
T/F: Lennox is put to death due to treason | False |
T/F: Lady Macbeth fears her husband’s “milk of human kindness” will prevent him from the murder | True |
Who said, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” | Witches |
Who said, “If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.” | Macbeth |
Who said, “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face…” | Duncan |
Who said, “Make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse.” | Lady Macbeth |
Who said, “You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.” | Banquo |
Pathetic Fallacy | When the weather mirrors the mood |
Fled to England | Malcom |
Where Macbeth is crowned | Scone |
Discovered Duncan’s dead body | Macduff |
Where King Duncan is buried | Colmekill |
Fled to Ireland | Donalbain |
Suspicious of Macbeth | Banquo |
Hallucinates daggers | Macbeth |
Banquo’s son | Fleance |
Faints upon hearing news of Duncan’s death | Lady Macbeth |
Gatekeeper of hell | Porter |
Purpose of porter scene? What 2 things did he drink? | Comic relief; nose paintings, urine, sleep |
Examples of Divine Disapproval | -Screams of death-Insomnia-Darkness-Horses eat each other-Owl eats falcon-Chimneys blown down-Earth shaking |
Lady Macbeth reaction vs. Macbeth to their bloody hands | Lady M- just takes a little water to wash offM- all of Neptune’s ocean couldn’t clean the blood from my hands |
What word can Macbeth not say? | “amen” |
Why does Lady Macbeth feel she cannot kill Duncan? | Because he resembles her father |
Who did Banquo dream of? | witches |
When Act 3 begins, who is the king of Scotland? | Macbeth |
Macbeth convinces the 2 murders to kill Banquo by telling them that? | Banquo had previously harmed them |
What is Lady Macbeth’s role in Macbeth’s plan to kill Banquo and Fleance? | She doesn’t know about it |
Macbeth’s plan regarding Banquo ultimately fails because | Fleance escapes |
Macbeth is happy and social at the banquet until | He sees Banquo’s ghost |
Who didn’t go to the banquet which makes Macbeth worry about a plan against him | Macduff |
When Macbeth says that, “Blood will have blood,” he means that | He will have to keep killing more people |
When Macbeth freaks out at the banquet, Lady Macbeth | Says that Macbeth is sick and everyone should go |
She is the queen of the witches | Hecate |
Malcolm has gone where to ask King Edward to help him overthrow Macbeth? | England |
Who said “They hailed him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my gripe..” | Macbeth |
Who said, “most royal sir, Fleance is ‘scaped.” | One of the murderers |
Who said “thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me.” | Macbeth |
Who said “thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou play’d most foully for’t” | Banquo |
Who said “This is the very painting of your fear, When all’s done, you look on but a stool.” | Lady Macbeth |
During her sleepwalking scene, Lady M seems most consumed of | Guilt |
After observing Lady M’s sleepwalking, her doctor appears to believe that she | May Harm herself |
Macbeth does not fear death at the hands of the Rebels because he has | Faith in the witches prophecies |
What does the “tomorrow” soliloquy reveal about Macbeth | A sense that life is meaningless |
In the last scene, Macbeth fights to the death because he | Prefers an honorable defeat to a humiliating surrender |
Macbeth’s best tragic flaw | An unchecked desire for power |
It is most likely that the gentlewoman refuses to repeat to the doctor what she has heard Lady M say | It involves a cofession |
What does Macbeth feel is needed to restore Lady M to health | Medicine |
Macduff claims that he will be haunted by his family’s ghost until | He, himself, kills Macbeth |
Siward’s concern about his son’s death has mainly to do with whether that death was | Brave |
The Gentlewoman in scene 1 refuses to repeat Lady M’s sleep-talk to the doctor because | There is no witness to confirm the truth of the gentlewoman’s words |
The “damned spot” to which Lady Macbeth refers is | Duncan’s bloodstain |
Macbeth tries to reassure himself that Malcolm and Macduff are not a threat to him because they | Are both “of woman born” |
As Macbeth’s anxiety grows, he commands the doctor to | Cure Lady Macbeth |
Macbeth’s reaction to his wife’s death shows that he | Thinks life is a meaningless path to death |
Macduff declares that he must kill Macbeth because | He must avenge his family members’ murders |
Macbeth finally realizes that the witches and apparitions | Deceived him with ambiguous messages |
Examples of fair is foul & foul is fake (appearance) | -How Lady Macbeth treats Duncan-Witches tell him apparitions-Thane of Cawdor portrays Duncan (beginning of story)-Donablaine & Malcolm blamed for murder-Macbeth toasts to Banquo-Lady Macduff calls Macduff a trader-Malcolm tests Macduff to see how true he was |
Steps of sleepwalking | Writes letterHas candle by sideWashes “bloody” handsConfess the three murders (Duncan, Banquo, & Lady Macduff) |
Who says “my soul is too charge with blood” | Macbeth (to Macduff) |
Who said “I have no words just my sword” | Macduff (to Macbeth) |
Who says “dagger I see me” | Macbeth |
Casualties of Macbeth (who dies) | Duncan, Duncan’s servants, Banquo, Macduff’s family, Siward’s son, Lady Macbeth, & Macbeth |
Blood refers to what in Macbeth/ references | Death, guilt, make thick my blood, lineage (Duncan’s death), violence |
Speak in riddles/ meddlesome | Witches |
Barren wasteland of the witches | Heath |
Macbeth Quizzes
August 11, 2019