When they reach Birnam wood, why does Malcolm order: 'Let every soldier hew him down a bough'?

So that they may bear it before them as a form of camouflage

In 'The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?' Lady Macbeth is talking about

Macbeth's murder of Macduff's wife

What does Macduff explain to Macbeth which destroys Macbeth's confidence?

He was born by emergency caesarean section

Why does Macbeth feel confident, despite reports of ten thousand English soldiers coming?

He knows Malcolm was born of a woman

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Macbeth Act V

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A quiz on the characters, events, key lines and literary techniques of Act V of Macbeth

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1
Why does Macduff not bother fighting with Macbeth's forces?
He only wants to kill Macbeth
He is injured
He is scared of them
He feels sorry for them
2
How did Lady Macbeth die?
She starved to death
Macduff killed her in revenge for his own wife's murder
She was killed by the invading forces
She killed herself
3
When they reach Birnam wood, why does Malcolm order: 'Let every soldier hew him down a bough'?
So that they can build barracks
So that they can build ladders to storm Dunsinane castle
So that they may bear it before them as a form of camouflage
So that they can use it as firewood
4
In 'The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?' Lady Macbeth is talking about
Lady Macduff's escaping to England
Macbeth's murder of Banquo's wife
Macbeth's murder of Macduff's wife
Macbeth's affair with Lady Macduff
5
Macbeth says of life: 'It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ signifying __'
little
nothing
stupidity
the world
6
Which castle does Macbeth fortify in preparation for the English invasion?
Cawdor
Forres
Dunsinane
Inverness
7
What does Macduff explain to Macbeth which destroys Macbeth's confidence?
The witches were tricking him with equivocation
The Queen, his wife, is dead
Birnam wood has come to Dunsinane
He was born by emergency caesarean section
8
'Now does he feel his title /Hang loose upon him, like a giant's robe /Upon a __ thief.'
rapscallion
dwarfish
tiny
midget
9
Why does Macbeth feel confident, despite reports of ten thousand English soldiers coming?
He knows Malcolm was born of a woman
He is the best soldier in the land
He knows Malcolm is an inexperienced soldier
He has ten thousand soldiers of his own
10
'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand,' is a good example of
extravagance
irony
alliteration
hyperbole

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