Setting
Characters
Scenes 1 and 2
Scenes 3, 4 and 5
Scenes 6 and 7
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Where is Macbeth taking place?
What is Scotland.
100
A Scottish general who is led to wicked thoughts but the prophecies of the three witches. A brave solider and powerful man. Easily tempted into murder to to fulfill his ambition to the throne.
What is Macbeth
100
How many witches are there?
What is three.
100
How does Banquo describe the witches?
What is they are wrinkled, strangely dressed, and have beards.
100
Where is Macbeth's castle located?
What is Inverness.
200
What year was did Shakespeare write Macbeth?
What is 1606.
200
Three “black and midnight hags” who plot mischief against Macbeth using charms, spells, and prophecies.
What is The Three Witches
200
What is the weather like in Scene 1?
What is thunder and lighting.
200
What three prophecies do the witches tell Banquo?
What is not as great but greater than Macbeth, not as happy but happier, and his sons will be kings.
200
Give one reason why Macbeth doesn't want to kill Duncan?
What is they are cousins or it's treason.
300
What time period is it during Macbeth?
What is eleventh century.
300
The good King of Scotland whom Macbeth, in his ambition for the crown, murders. He is the model of a virtuous, benevolent, and farsighted ruler.
What is King Duncan
300
Where do the witches plan to meet with Macbeth?
What is in a field after the battle.
300
Where does King Duncan plan to spend the night at the end of Scene 4?
What is Macbeth's castle.
300
What is one thing pushing Macbeth to go through with killing Duncan?
What is his wife and greed as a result of the predictions.
400
Who was the King of England at the time?
What is Edward the confessor.
400
The brave, noble general whose children, according to the witches’ prophecy, will inherit the Scottish throne. Like Macbeth, this person thinks ambitious thoughts, but he does not translate those thoughts into action.
What is Banquo.
400
What does "fair is foul and foul is fair" mean?
What is what's good is bad and what's bad is good.
400
How does Lady Macbeth describe her husband?
What is thinks he is too nice and soft-hearted to kill to get what he wants.
400
What is Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan?
What is get the guards drunk, stab Duncan with the guards daggers, smear the guards with blood and blame them.
500
Who is the King of Scotland in Act 1?
What is King Duncan.
500
A deeply ambitious woman who lusts for power and position.
What is Lady Macbeth.
500
Who is the Scottish traitor whose title is given to Macbeth?
What is Thane of Cawdor.
500
What does it mean to "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"?
What is to look good, but be bad.
500
What does the quote "A false face must hide what the false heart knows" mean?
What is Macbeth will act normal even though he is plotting to kill the king.