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This best describes the mood of scene 1, in which the witches appear...
Uneasiness and gloom
In Act 1, Scene 3, the prophecy the witches give Banquo is that his descendents will be...
kings someday, but Banquo will not.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth intend to get away with murder by making it seem that the king...
was murdered by others.
The first characters to appear in this play are...
the three witches.
The king views the Thane of Cawdor with angry contempt because of his...
Disloyalty
Lady Macbeth clearly believes that her husband's murder of Duncan would be...
manly
Macbeth is reluctant to kill Duncan at Macbeth's castle because of a "double trust," by which he means that Duncan...
is both his king and his guest.
When Ross and Angus come to fetch Macbeth and take him to Duncan, they address him as...
Thane of Cawdor
In scene 5, Lady Macbeth's immediate reaction upon reading her husband's letter is to express doubt about
Macbeth's strength of will.
The weather at the beginning of the play...
contains thunder and lighting.
Duncan's son Malcolm, "the Prince of Cumberland," represents this to Macbeth...
an obstacle to the throne
The play is set in...
Scotland.
In Act 1, this causes Macbeth's nervousness and fear...
Being tempted to commit murder
He is assisting the main enemy of Scotland at the time of the play...
The Thane of Cawdor
When Duncan arrives at Inverness (Macbeth's castle), his mood is one of...
peaceful happiness.
At the beginning of the play, the witches vow to meet again after...
a mighty battle.
Lady Macbeth says that she would sooner murder her own infant than...
go back on an oath.
The main enemy of Scotland at the time of the play was...
Norway.
Lady Macbeth asks spirits to help her...
be as cruel as she needs to be.
With ____ skill, he predicted the final score of the baseball game.
prophetic
Upon hearing the witches' prophecies, Macbeth experiences all of the following...
A thrilling fear, a desire for more details, and the temptation to murder
In Act 1, Scene 2, the sergeant does not finish telling Duncan of the battle because...
he faints from the loss of blood.
In an aside in scene 3, Banquo wonders whether "the devil can speak true," referring to statements made by...
the witches.
She claimed that the house was haunted because of ____ events that happened long ago.
direful
Macbeth's actions on the battlefield show him to be all of the following...
Loyal to the king, recklessly brave, and capable of great violence