Ye Olde First Category
What do the doctor and gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth doing?
Sleepwalking.
Who first fights Macbeth? What happens?
Young Siward. He is killed.
Where did Macduff go?
He left for England.
What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death?
He is calm. (He says she would have died sooner or later.)
Why does Macbeth have Macduff's family and servants killed?
Why does Macduff say, "Oh Scotland, Scotland!"
He fears for Scotland's future.
How does Macbeth die?
Macduff beheads him.
What news does Ross bring to Macduff?
Lady Macduff and her children have been murdered.
In Act IV Scene I, who does the first apparition warn Macbeth about?
Macduff
How does Lady Macbeth die?
Suicide
Witch 2 says, "By the pricking of my thumb, Something wicked this way comes." Who comes?
MacBeth
When the witches show Macbeth an apparition of Banquo and several kings, how does this make Macbeth feel?
Upset and angry.
Who will be King of Scotland?
Malcolm
What "trick" does Malcom use to hide the number of men in his army?
Tree branches as camoflage.
What did the doctor mean when he says that Lady Macbeth needs a priest more than a doctor?
That she is ill because of her sins and feels guilty, not actually sick.
As Act IV begins, why does Macbeth go to visit the witches?
He wants to find out what will happen in the future.
When Macbeth says that “Days creep slowly along until the end of time,” what literary device is he using?
Personification
When Macbeth says, "Out, out, brief candle!" What does the candle being put out mean?
Life being taken
What is Macbeth's reaction to the news that Birnam Wood is moving?
He vows to fight to the bitter end.
What is Macbeth talking about in this quote? "It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds."
Their country of Scotland
Macbeth says this about the witches, "Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damned all those that trust them!" What is he saying about himself?
That he is damned for trusting the witches.
What is the meaning of "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell/Yet grace must still look so."
Things are not always as they seem.
When does Macbeth know he's in trouble?
Macduff tells him he was taken from his mother's womb instead of being "born of woman."
Who says the following quote? "The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will my hand never be clean?"
Lady Macbeth
Malcom says, "And none serve with him but constrained things Whose hearts are absent, too." What does that mean?
Macbeth's armies are low on morale and will be easy to defeat.