Macbeth Exam

Question 1

Duncan’s youngest son; flees to Ireland

Answer 1

Donaldbain

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Macbeth

Question 3

Son of Banquo who narrowly escaped being murdered

Answer 3

Fleance

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Duncan

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Lady Macduff

Question 6

Duncan’s named heir

Answer 6

Malcolm

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Banquo

Question 8

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

Answer 8

The witches

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Lady Macbeth

Question 10

The man who is NOT born of a woman

Answer 10

Macduff

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Hecate

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Young Siward

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Scotland and Norway

Question 15

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

Answer 15

He is a very powerful, brave soldier.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The king named Macbeth “Thane of Cawdor”

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Why does Lady Macbeth refuse to kill Duncan

Answer 20

He looks just like her dad

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

The dagger he only sees

Question 22

How does Macbeth change after the murder of Duncan

Answer 22

Macbeth becomes more resolved and ruthless

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Duncan’s death.

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

The blood she thinks that's on her hands

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Macbeth's royal title is too big for him

Question 28

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."

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What are the predictions given by the apparitions in Act 5

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Malcolm

Question 32

Who was "from his mothers womb, untimely ripped."

Answer 32

Macduff

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Who develops the plan of "look like the innocent flower. But be the serpent under't''

Answer 34

Lady Macbeth

Question 35

Identify the following speakers

Answer 35

^^

Question 36

"My hands are of your color; but I shame/To wear a heart so white....A little water clears us of this deed."'

Answer 36

Lady Macbeth

Question 37

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

Answer 37

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

Question 38

"The prince of Cumberland! That is a step/On which I must fall down, or else o'leap."

Answer 38

Macbeth

Question 39

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

Answer 39

through her sleepwalking, her getting "ill". Mental state.

Question 40

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

Answer 40

cut down and carry a bough from the Wood

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Suicide

Question 42

How does Macbeth die?

Answer 42

by the sword at the hands of Macduff

Question 43

"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"

Answer 43

Lady Macbeth

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Lady Macbeth

Question 45

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Answer 45

Macbeth

Question 46

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."'

Answer 46

Duncan

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Banquo

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Macduff

Question 49

"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."

Answer 49

Macolm