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100
The man who dies at the hands of Macduff.
Who is Macbeth?
100
This scene is an example of comic relief.
What is the porter scene?
100
What Macbeth sees in his hallucination in Act II before the murder of Duncan.
What is a dagger?
100
Malcolm and Donalbain decide to do this after learning of their father's murder.
What is running away to protect themselves?
100
Macbeth's tragic flaw
What is ambition?
200
The drunken castle doorkeeper
Who is the porter?
200
A speech by one actor alone on a stage.
What is a soliloquy?
200
What Banquo reveals in a soliloquy at the end of Act II.
What is that he suspects Macbeth killed Duncan?
200
When Lady Macbeth foreshadows her later regret.
What is being upset that Duncan resembles her sleeping father.
200
Why Macbeth is an atypical Shakespearean tragedy
What is Macbeth is also the villain?
300
The man who was to be murdered with his father but escaped.
Who is Fleance?
300
The person who sets the daggers beside the sleeping servants.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
300
What Macbeth is saying when he says: "Macbeth does murder sleep."
What is lamenting the loss of peace that results from his crime?
300
The scene many critics don't believe Shakespeare wrote
What is the scene with Hecate and the three witches?
400
The man who is often the bearer of bad news.
Who is Ross?
400
The time at which the climax of a Shakespearean tragedy occurs.
What is Act III?
400
Why Duncan's reference to Lady Macbeth as a "noble hostess" is dramatic irony."
What is knowing she plans to murder him?
400
To whom the witches' words "Something wicked this way comes." refer
Who is Macbeth?
500
The man who tested Macduff's loyalty to Scotland.
Who is Malcolm?
500
The turning point of the play.
What is the climax?
500
What Donalbain is doing when he says: "Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. / Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles."
What is telling Malcolm they are in danger as heirs to the throne?
500
What Macbeth means when he says: "This is a step / On which I must fall down or else o'erleap, / For in my way it lies."
What is knowing Malcolm stands between him and the throne?
500
The reason Macbeth wants Banquo dead
What is Banquo finding out about Duncan's killer?
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