Macbeth

Question 1

How many apparitions does Macbeth see? 4:1

Answer 1

3

Question 2

What does the first apparition say? 4:1

Answer 2

Beware Macduff

Question 3

What does the second apparition say? 4:1

Answer 3

Laugh at everyone else because no one born to a woman will kill Macbeth

Question 4

What does the third apparition say? 4:1

Answer 4

Noone will harm Macbeth until Birnam Wood fights him.

Question 5

What does Macbeth ask the witches after he sees all 3 apparitions? 4:1

Answer 5

he asks if Banquo’s sons will ever be king.

Question 6

How many ghosts appear on stage? 4:1

Answer 6

9

Question 7

What is the 8th ghost holding? 4:1

Answer 7

a mirror

Question 8

Who is the 9th ghost? 4:1

Answer 8

Banquo

Question 9

Who are all of these ghosts? 4:1

Answer 9

Banquo’s lineage

Question 10

What does Lennox come to tell Macbeth? 4:1

Answer 10

Macduff has fled to England

Question 11

What does Macbeth decide to do? 4:1

Answer 11

He will no longer wait to act on a decision. As soon as he decides something he will act.

Question 12

What does Macbeth tell Lennox to do? 4:1

Answer 12

kill Macduff and his family.

Question 13

What does Lady Macduff say about Macduff’s leaving to England? 4:2

Answer 13

she sees it as a cowardice act of fear because he left behind his whole family.

Question 14

Who is comforting Lady Macduff? 4:2

Answer 14

Ross

Question 15

What does the messenger tell Lady Macduff? 4:2

Answer 15

That something bad is coming and to not be here when it gets there.

Question 16

Who does the first murderer kill? 4:2

Answer 16

The child on Macduff

Question 17

What does Malcom think Macduff is going to do? 4:3

Answer 17

he thinks that Macduff is going to give Malcom in so that he looks better.

Question 18

What do Macduff and Malcom think of Macbeth? 4:3

Answer 18

they think he is a murderous tyrant who is tearing scotland apart.

Question 19

What is Macduff trying to convince Malcom of? 4:3

Answer 19

he is trying to convince him that he would be a good king. Better than Macbeth

Question 20

What does Macduff say after Malcom describes his greedy and horrible view on being king? 4:3

Answer 20

he says goodbye to scotland forever.

Question 21

What is beginning to form in Scotland?4:3

Answer 21

a force to start taking over Macbeth.

Question 22

Who decides to go back to help? 4:3

Answer 22

Malcom

Question 23

What does Ross tell Macduff? 4:3

Answer 23

that his family and servants were slaughtered.

Question 24

How does Macduff react to the news of his family? 4:3

Answer 24

he vows to return to kill Madbeth

Question 25

Who is the doctor speaking with at the beginning? 5:1

Answer 25

he is speaking with a gentlewoman

Question 26

what does the gentlewoman tell the doctor is happening to Lady Macbeth? 5:1

Answer 26

She tells him that Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking

Question 27

What does Lady Macbeth seem to reveal as she sleepwalks? 5:1

Answer 27

She reveals that there is “blood on her hands”. This is an allusion to something bad that has happened.

Question 28

What does the doctor presume about Lady MAcbeth? 5:1

Answer 28

he presumes that she has something to hide and is holding back many secrets.

Question 29

What does the doctor think Lady Macbeth needs? 5:1

Answer 29

he thinks she needs a priest to cleanse her mind and soul.

Question 30

How is Macbeth acting towards his thanes? 5:3

Answer 30

he is acting very reserved and thinks they are traitors.

Question 31

What does Macbeth ask the doctor to cure? 5:3

Answer 31

he asks him to cure his wife and his country

Question 32

What is Malcolm’s ideas to confuse Macbeth’s spies? 5:4

Answer 32

to have every soldier hold a branch in front of them as they advance.

Question 33

What happened to Lady Macbeth? 5:5

Answer 33

she is dead

Question 34

What does the messenger tell macbeth? 5:5

Answer 34

the birnam woods are moving

Question 35

How does Macbeth react to the woods moving? 5:5

Answer 35

he prepares to die

Question 36

What does Macbeth think will keep him from getting killed? 5:8

Answer 36

he believes that he cannot be killed by anyone born of woman.

Question 37

How does macduff respond to Macbeth telling him about his charmed life? 5:8

Answer 37

he says that he was cut out of his mothers womb before birth, so he was not born from woman.

Question 38

Will macbeth surrender? 5:8

Answer 38

nope

Question 39

Does macduff kill macbeth? 5:8

Answer 39

yes

Question 40

Who becomes king? 5:8

Answer 40

malcolm