Who Said It?
Weird Sisters
Potpourri
Characters
Fate, Freewill and Murder
100

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

What is the witches (weird sisters)

100

What three predictions do the Weird sisters make for Macbeth

What is Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter

100

this person wrote Macbeth

who is Shakespeare

100

Who is Thane of Glamis

Who is Macbeth?

100

What is Lady Macbeth suggesting in these lines, "The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan."

Duncan will die in the castle tonight

200
No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth
What is the King
200

What three predictions do the weird sisters make for Banquo?

What is lesser than Macbeth but greater, no so happy, yet much happier, Thou shall get kings, though thou be none

200

this is where the play is set

Scotland

200

Who is Prince of Cumberland?

Who is Malcolm

200

Which character decides to leave his/her future up to fate in the beginning of Act I?

Macbeth

300

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Who is Macbeth

300

What is the meaning of "wyrd" (an Anglo-Saxon word that we now use as "weird")

destiny / fate

300

a Shakespearean play has this many acts

What is 5

300

Who delivers the news to Macbeth that he is to become Thane of Cawdor?

Who is Ross

300

What is "a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap"

What is Duncan names Malcolm Prince of Cumberland and Macbeth now has another hurdle to become king.

400

Good Sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?

Who is Banquo?

400

What warning does Banquo give to Macbeth about the weird sisters?

What is "often times, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

400
when you use the same vowel sound over and over again

What is assonance

400

Character who states "This castle has a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

What is King Duncan

400

Which characters are discussing, "O, never / Shall sun that morow see!" and what does it mean?

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Duncan will not wake from his sleep in the castle.

500

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

Who is Macbeth

500

How do Macbeth and Banquo differ in their opinions of the witches/weird sisters?

What is Macbeth puts all his faith in the witches and decides he will take it upon himself to become king. Banquo will let fate takes its course.

500

a situation, or the irony arising out of a situation, in which the audience has a fuller knowledge of what is happening than the character does

What is dramatic irony

500

Who states "If it were done when tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly."

Macbeth

500

As Act I closes, what is the final plan to murder Duncan. BE specific!!

Lady Macbeth will get guards drunk They will steal daggers Stab Duncan Put daggers back on guards/smear with blood - to make them look guilty Go back to bed like nothing happened