Drama Terms
Shakespeare
Quotes
1st half of play
2nd half of play
100
A long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage is called a(n)
What is a soliloquy?
100
________ (country) is the main setting of the play.
What is Scotland?
100
When Macduff asks about his family, Ross replies that " they were well at peace" when he last saw them. His statement is...... a) unwittingly true c) melodramatic and vague b) deliberately misleading d) honestly offered but misinformed
What is b) deliberately misleading?
100
The play's first act wastes no time in giving us all of the following except... a) an invasion c) a coldblooded murder b) an execution d) some treacherous plotting
What is c) a coldblooded murder?
100
The play ends with the thanes acknowledging as Scotland's new and lawful king,
Who is Malcolm?
200
The purpose of a soliloquy is to....
What is reveal the innermost thoughts of a character?
200
Most of the story in Macbeth comes from....
What is a history book?
200
Explain the following quote from Banquo: "There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.
What is Banquo observing that it is a starless night?
200
A brief opening scene gives us which of the following? a. A humorous supernatural episode b. A taste of the intrigue to come c. Several key predictions d. A foreboding view of three influential characters
What is d) a foreboding view of three influential characters?
200
In scene 6, we learn that Macduff has gone to England to a) escape Macbeth's tyranny b) see his favorite son c) gather forces to depose Macbeth d) make peace with the English
What is c) gather forces to depose Macbeth?
300
The porter is a character put in just to lighten the tension of the mood. This is called.....
What is comic relief?
300
During Shakespeare's day it was illegal for ______ to appear on stage.
Who are women?
300
The witches around the cauldron: "Double Double, ______________" (double points for both lines)
What is "toil and trouble" ? ("Fire burn and caldron bubble")
300
In an actual stage performance of Macbeth in Elizabethan times, Act One would require all of the following except a. offstage musicians b. a trapdoor for the witches' exit c. several players making entrances and exits d. elaborate stage props and frequent scene changes
What is d) elaborate stage props and frequent scene changes?
300
This person observes Lady Macbeth's night time walks and calls the doctor.
Who is her "gentlewoman"?
400
When an actor steps out of character and speaks to the audience.
What is an "aside"?
400
The play Macbeth was written in honor of _____.
Who is King James I?
400
Macbeth: Life is "a tale told by ______________"
an idiot
400
Shakespeare makes Duncan's murder seem more monstrous than it might have been by a)picturing Macbeth as a madman by the time of the murder b) always portraying the king in sympathetic terms c) vividly describing the actual murder d) making the kind appear dislike by his subjects.
What is a) picturing Macbeth as a madman by the time of the murder?
400
The murder of Lady Macduff and her children differs from that of Duncan or even Banqou because it appears to be prompted by....
What is fury and frustation?
500
This quote from Act I Scene i is an example of paradox.
What is "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" ?
500
_______ built the first English theater.
Who is James Burbage?
500
Explain the following quote from Macbeth: " Is this dagger which I see before me, The hand toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
What is Macbeth wavering in his decision to commit murder? or What is Macbeth hallucinating because of the horror of what he is about to do?
500
As Scene I of Act three opens, Banqou reveals in a short soliloquy that he...
What is suspects Macbeth killed Duncan?
500
All of the following incidents flatter Shakespeare's king and patron except: a) the character of Banquo b) the setting of the play c) the assassination of the tyrant Macbeth d) the healing of scrofula victims by King Edward
What is c) the assassination of the tyrant Macbeth?
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