MACBETH ACT III REVIEW

Question 1

Banquo refuses macbeth’s invitation to dinner.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 1

FALSE

Question 2

Macbeth hires two men to kill Banquo and Fleance.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 2

FALSE, he hired three men

Question 3

Banquo’s son manages to escape from the murderers.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

Before the dinner, Macbeth looks confidently toward the future.
TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Banquo’s ghost sits in Macbeth’s place at the table.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

Lady Macbeth explains that her husband’s wild words are caused by the pressure of being king.
TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 6

FALSE

Question 7

All the guests at the banquet see the ghostly figure.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

Macbeth is relieved that Macduff has failed to appear.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 8

FALSE

Question 9

Hecate and the weird sisters plan another meeting with Macbeth.
TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

Macduff has left Scotland to aid one of Duncan’s sons in a rebellion against Macbeth
TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

As Banquo considers Macbeth’s kingship, Banquo feels how?

Answer 11

Glimmers of hope for his own future

Question 12

Macbeth wants Banquo dead so that…?

Answer 12

So that his crime wont benefit Banquos children

Question 13

In saying “what’s done is done,” Lady Macbeth suggest that she and Macbeth should do what?

Answer 13

Accept the finality of their deed

Question 14

In Macbeth’s response to his wife, Macbeth demonstrates what?

Answer 14

A drive towards farthure evil

Question 15

Macbeth is seized by a “fit” when what happens?

Answer 15

his wife asks him to act cheerfully

Question 16

Macbeth describes the ghost at dinner as what?

Answer 16

Looking as banqo did in life

Question 17

Lady Macbeth tries to bring Macbeth to his senses by doing what?

Answer 17

Scolding him

Question 18

Macbeth hints to his wife that he must do what again?

Answer 18

Avoid the witches

Question 19

Hecate intends to punish Macbeth for what?

Answer 19

overconfidence

Question 20

At the beginning of Scene 6, Lennox speaks of Macbeth’s sorrow and nobility in what type of tone?

Answer 20

Objective

Question 21

Fleance says at the beginning of Act III, “…I have not heard the clock.” Clocks had not been invented in the 11th century time of the play. When a writer uses something from another time, he is utilizing what type of figurative language?

Answer 21

Foreshadowing anachronisn

Question 22

What change has occurred in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship?

Answer 22

Lady Macbeth has been concerned about macbeth after duncans death since Macbeth has secretive about the murder.

Question 23

Who sent the third murder? Why?

Answer 23

Macbeth, because he was paranoid.

Question 24

How was Banquo killed? Give specific details

Answer 24

He was murdered, stabbed 20 times in the head by 3 men after they threw him in a ditch.

Question 25

To whom has Macduff turned to find help in overthrowing Macbeth?

Answer 25

King edward and his famous soldier siwald