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Macbeth Exam Flashcards

flash cards to study for the Macbeth exam

1
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Duncan’s youngest son; flees to Ireland

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Donaldbain

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2
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“[Life] is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing’’

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Macbeth

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3
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Son of Banquo who narrowly escaped being murdered

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Fleance

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4
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The king whose murder ignites a series of bloody and unfortunate events

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Duncan

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5
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Woman who, before her murder, accuses her husband of being a traitor.

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Lady Macduff

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6
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Duncan’s named heir

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Malcolm

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7
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He will never be king, but will be the father of kings

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Banquo

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8
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The weird sisters who hover through the “fog and filthy air”

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The witches

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9
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“Out, damned stop! out, I say! one, two. Why, then, ‘tis time to do’t Hell is murky!”

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Lady Macbeth

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10
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The man who is NOT born of a woman

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Macduff

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11
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The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth.

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Hecate

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12
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A trio of ghosts summoned by the three witches in order to warn Macbeth of his impending doom.

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an armed head, a bloody child, and finally a child crowned, with a tree in his hand.

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13
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Siward’s son who joins him on the battlefield at Dunsinane he encounters Macbeth during the fight, and despite his attempts to bring his enemy down, Macbeth ultimately kills him.

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Young Siward

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14
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At the beginning of the play, what two nations are at war?

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Scotland and Norway

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15
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Before Macbeth makes his first appearance in the play, what does the audience learn about him?

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He is a very powerful, brave soldier.

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16
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In Act 1, Scene 3, what astonishing news does Ross bring Macbeth

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The king named Macbeth “Thane of Cawdor”

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17
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In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth learns of her husband’s prophecy, but says, “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is t too full of the milk of human kindness’’ What is she worried about?

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Macbeth is too kind to go through with it and murder Duncan.

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18
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What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan

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Get the guards drunk, and sneak into Duncan’s room to kill him.

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19
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In Act 1, Scene 7, what reasons does Macbeth give for considering to spare Duncan’s life.

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Macbeth is Duncan’s kings man, subject and host.

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20
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Why does Lady Macbeth refuse to kill Duncan

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He looks just like her dad

21
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In Act 2, Scene 1, Macbeth remarks, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?.. I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw.” what is the “fatal vision” he refers to?

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The dagger he only sees

22
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How does Macbeth change after the murder of Duncan

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Macbeth becomes more resolved and ruthless

23
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The morning after Duncan’s murder, Lennox comments about unusual natural events that occurred the night before. What does theses events foreshadow?

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Duncan’s death.

24
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In Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth is hosting a banquet when a murderer returns to report the results of the ambush against Banquo and Fleance. In response Macbeth says, “The worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed no teeth for the present” What does this mean?

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This refers to the snake (Banquo) who is dead because Fleance is the worm.

25
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Why is the murder of Macduff’s child-aged son so significant?

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viewed as a symbol of the youthful innocence Macbeth hates and fears.

26
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In Act 5, Scene 1, what is the “damned spot” to which Lady Macbeth refers?

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The blood she thinks that’s on her hands

27
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By Act V, what do Angus and the other Scottish nobles notice about Macbeth?

A

Macbeth’s royal title is too big for him

28
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What does Lady Macbeth indicate in this passage? “Hie thee hither/That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;/And chastise with the valor of my tongue/All that impedes thee from the golden round.”

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This means that Lady Macbeth hopes that she can persuade Macbeth into seeing her plan by talking to him and seducing him.

29
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What does Macbeth mean in the following passage? “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown./And put a barren specter in my gripe.”

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expressing his fear that he will not produce an heir to the throne.

30
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What are the predictions given by the apparitions in Act 5

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The first and second apparitions told Macbeth to ‘‘beware Macduff’’ but that ‘‘none of woman born shall harm Macbeth. ‘’ The third apparition says that Macbeth will never be ‘‘vanquished . . . until Great Birnam wood’’ moves to Dunsinane, Macbeth’s castle.

31
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Who becomes king of Scotland at the end of the play?

A

Malcolm

32
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Who was “from his mothers womb, untimely ripped.”

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Macduff

33
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the beginning of the play, what does Lady Macbeth think about Macbeth’s ambition?

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Macbeth’s lack of ambition. She says that he is ‘too full of the milk of kindness’, and that he would be too inclined to be good.

34
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Who develops the plan of “look like the innocent flower. But be the serpent under’t’’

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Lady Macbeth

35
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Identify the following speakers

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^^

36
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“My hands are of your color; but I shame/To wear a heart so white….A little water clears us of this deed.”’

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Lady Macbeth

37
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Why does Macbeth want to kill Fleance (banquo’s son)

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Because the witches fortune could come true for Banquo. Paranoia.

38
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“The prince of Cumberland! That is a step/On which I must fall down, or else o’leap.”

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Macbeth

39
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At the end of the play how does Lady Macbeth indicate her decline

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through her sleepwalking, her getting “ill”. Mental state.

40
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At the end of the play, how does the army fighting Macbeth conceal themselves?

A

cut down and carry a bough from the Wood

41
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At the end of the play, how does Lady Macbeth most likely die?

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Suicide

42
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How does Macbeth die?

A

by the sword at the hands of Macduff

43
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“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

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Lady Macbeth

44
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“Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me from the crown to the toe-top/Of direst cruelty!”

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Lady Macbeth

45
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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

A

Macbeth

46
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“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”’

A

Duncan

47
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“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/As the weird woman promised, and, I fear,/Thou play’dst most foully fort.”

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Banquo

48
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“Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine,/ My wife and children’s ghost will haunt me still.”

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Macduff

49
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“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tounges,/Was once thought honest: you have loved him well./He hath not touch’d you yet. I am young; but something/You may deserve of him though me, and wisdom/To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb/ To appease an angry god.”

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Macolm

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