Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Background Information
Quotes
Don't Forget Act 1
100

Macbeth admits to killing them.

The servants. 

100

When Duncan is found dead, Lady Macbeth acts like this.

What is shocked? She acts like the "Innocent flower"

100

How was the real Macbeth different from Shakespeare's portrayal of him? 

He was not as murderous. 

100

Speaker of the following lines. “Look like the innocent flower,/But be the serpent under’t.”

Who is Lady Macbeth?

100

How does the play open?

What is with the three witches?

200

The bloody dagger that Macbeth saw before committing murder was the result of this.

What is his imagination?

200

Lady Macbeth tells her husband to do this to his hands after committing the murder.

What is wash his hands?

200

What book does James I write? What was it about? 

Demonology and world of witches. 

200

“Nothing in his life/Became him like leaving it.” '

Who is talking? Who are they referring to? 

Malcolm is talking about the old Thane of Cawdor's execution. 

200

What do the witches predict for Banquo? 

"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater" and "Not so happy, yet much happier"

300

Macbeth’s signal to move forward with the plan.

What is the sound of a bell.

300

Lady Macbeth does this with the bloody daggers.

What is uses them to frame the servants. 

300

What type of political system did Scotland have during Macbeth's time?

Feudal system

300

Who says, "And oftentimes to win us harm/The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Wins us with honest trifles, to betray's/ In deepest consequence"?

Banquo

300

Who shall inherit the throne after Duncan's death?

Prince of Cumberland = Malcolm

400

Word that Macbeth struggles to say right after killing King Duncan.

What is amen?

400

Lady Macbeth's reason for not killing Duncan herself.

What is that he resembles her father?

400

King James I was the eighth descendant of what character?

Banquo

400

Who says, "Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/ To plague th' inventor" ?

Macbeth

400

According to the witches, Macbeth will soon hold these titles.

What is Thane of Cawdor and King?

500

What part of the plan does Macbeth screw up? How is it resolved? 

He brings the daggers with him. Lady Macbeth must go back to the scene of the crime. 

500

What is the literary device used when Macduff describes Lady Macbeth as "O gentle lady"?

What is irony?

500

Why was James I obsessed with witchcraft?

Several women were tried in connection to sinking his ship. Scotland was also experiencing a witch craze. 

500

Speaker of the following lines. "O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them"

Who is Macbeth?

500

Macbeth's only reason for wanting to kill Duncan.

ambition 

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