Macbeth Review!

Question 1

Who got the blame for Duncan's murder?

Accepted Answer

The guards

Question 2

With what title do the witches first greet Macbeth? "All hail Macbeth..."

Accepted Answer

Thane of Glamis

Question 3

What is inflection?

Accepted Answer

A change in pitch or tone of the voice

Question 4

Who are the witches talking to when they say "Lesser than Macbeth and greater..."

Accepted Answer

Banquo

Question 5

With Duncan's sons gone, who becomes King?

Accepted Answer

Macbeth

Question 6

What does the second apparition look like?

Accepted Answer

A bloody child

Question 7

What aid does Lady Macbeth beg from the spirits?

Accepted Answer

Unsex me

Question 8

When is Shakespeare's birthday?

Accepted Answer

April 23, 1564

Question 9

How do we know Lady Macbeth is feeling guilty?

Accepted Answer

She is sleep walking

Question 10

What is the style of poem for which Shakespeare is known?

Accepted Answer

Sonnet

Question 11

Who wrote Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 12

Later that night, the dinner party gets awkard. Why?

Accepted Answer

Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost

Question 13

How does Macduff greet Malcolm?

Accepted Answer

Hails him King, with Macbeth's head

Question 14

Macbeth hires murderers to kill whom?

Accepted Answer

Banquo

Question 15

What is connotation?

Accepted Answer

A secondary meaning, or implied meaning of a word

Question 16

What does Lady Macbeth fear when she reads the witches’ prediction about Macbeth becoming king

Accepted Answer

He's too full of the milk of human kindness

Question 17

What do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do to Duncan?

Accepted Answer

Murder him in his sleep

Question 18

Who are the Weird Sisters?

Accepted Answer

The 3 witches

Question 19

Macbeth decides to visit the witches. What are they cooking?

Accepted Answer

A hellbroth

Question 20

Why was the Thane of Cawdor executed?

Accepted Answer

He was a traitor

Question 21

Who was Shakespeare's wife?

Accepted Answer

Anne Hathaway

Question 22

What prediction does the first apparition give Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

Beware Macduff

Question 23

With Macbeth as King, what is the state of Scotland?

Accepted Answer

It's in ruins

Question 24

What prophecy does the second apparition give Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

No one born of a woman can harm Mabeth

Question 25

Whose castle does Macbeth surprise and slaughter everyone?

Accepted Answer

Macduff

Question 26

What does Lady Macbeth do while she sleep-walks?

Accepted Answer

Washes her hands

Question 27

What does Macduff reveal to Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

He was untimely ripped from his mother's womb

Question 28

What does the first apparition look like?

Accepted Answer

An armed head

Question 29

Who finds Duncan dead?

Accepted Answer

Macduff

Question 30

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

Accepted Answer

37

Question 31

If the witches seem to be women but have beards, this is considered a _________________

Accepted Answer

Paradox

Question 32

What is the second title the witches greet Macbeth with?

Accepted Answer

Thane of Cawdor

Question 33

What does the third apparition tell Macbeth?

Accepted Answer

Macbeth won't be beat until Burnam wood comes to Dunsinane

Question 34

What does the third apparition look like?

Accepted Answer

A crowned child with a tree in its hand

Question 35

Who flees after Duncan is found dead?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm and Donalbain

Question 36

What is going on when the play begins?

Accepted Answer

A battle

Question 37

How did Lady Macbeth die?

Accepted Answer

Killed herself

Question 38

What have some of Macbeth's troops done?

Accepted Answer

Switched sides

Question 39

How will the English troops disguise their approach?

Accepted Answer

They will carry tree branches

Question 40

What is subtext?

Accepted Answer

The thoughts or emotions we imagine while speaking a part

Question 41

What is the third title the witches greet Macbeth with?

Accepted Answer

King hereafter

Question 42

Whom does Duncan declare successor to the throne?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm

Question 43

What sole motivation does Macbeth have to kill Duncan?

Accepted Answer

Vaulting ambition

Question 44

What advice does Lady Macbeth give to her husband?

Accepted Answer

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

Question 45

Macbeth hallucinates and sees what?

Accepted Answer

A floating dagger

Question 46

Why does Macbeth fear Banquo?

Accepted Answer

The witches said Banquo's sons would be kings

Question 47

Who is the King of Scotland?

Accepted Answer

Duncan

Question 48

What does Lady Macbeth vow she would do rather than break a promise?

Accepted Answer

Kill her own baby

Question 49

What is the name of Shakespeare's theatre?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 50

Banquo is killed, but who escapes?

Accepted Answer

Fleance

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