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Macbeth/Lady Macbeth
Act V
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Act IV
100

Elaborate on the Doctor’s diagnosis of Lady Macbeth.

What is the Doctor tells Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is not physically ill but rather tortured by her own mind? She is mentally unstable and needs God? 

100
Explain how the play ends. 
What is Macbeth was killed and Malcolm is now the King of Scotland?
100
"From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand...be it thought and done" 
What is Macbeth will do what he feels without even thinking about it. Whatever comes to his mind first, he will then act on it without thinking things through? 
100

Name the queen of the witches.

What is Hecate?

100

The end of Act 4 foreshadows an important conflict between which two characters?

What is Macbeth and Macduff?
200

Identify the main idea of Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene in Macbeth (Act 5, scene 1).

What is a guilty conscience is not easily mended?

200
Explain why Macbeth is unafraid of the approaching forces of Malcolm, Macduff and Siward. 
What is The witches' prophecies have made him feel invincible and confident? 
200
"My poor country shall have more vices than it had before." Elaborate on who says this and what it means. 
What is Malcolm says this and he is implying that he would be more of a tyrant than Macbeth, and the country would endure more suffering if Scotland made him King?
200
In responding to the news of his family's massacre, who does Macduff blame? 
What is


He blames himself?

200
Describe what the are witches doing at the beginning of Act 4.
What is they are conjuring up evil spirits in order to give Macbeth new prophecies?
300

Explain what is said that frightens Macbeth before he is killed by Macduff.

What is Macduff tells Macbeth that he was ripped from his mother's womb at an untimely moment?

300
Explain what happens in Act V to make Macbeth say "Life is meaningless."

What is Lady Macbeth dies? He realizes the consequences of his actions and feels that he has gained nothing from being King?

300
"I have liv'd long enough: my way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf"
What is I'm tired of life. My life is beginning to wither away and dry out like a yellowing leaf begins to wither away and dry out in the Fall?
300
Explain how Lady Macduff characterizes her husband in Act 4 (after Macduff's departure from Scotland).
What is


She calls her husband a traitor and is angry with him for leaving his country and his family behind. 

300
Identify the three apparitions that the witches give Macbeth.
What is

1. Beware of Macduff, the Thane of Fife?

2. No man born of woman shall ever harm Macbeth?

3. Macbeth shall never be defeated until Great Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill?

400
What does Macbeth's interpretation of his third and final prophecy reveal about his character? 
What is he is invincible and confident? 
400

Name the title that has never been used before in Scotland that Malcolm plans to use grant his Thanes and Kinsman.

What is Earls? 
400
"Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host" 
What is The soldiers will hide behind tree branches in order to camouflage themselves? 
400
Identify Malcolm's dominate tone in Act 4 when he is describing to Macduff all the things he would do if he were king. 


"But I have none: justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience, courage...Nay, had I power, I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, uproar the universal peace, confound all unity on earth."

What is Sarcasm?
400

Elaborate on how Malcolm describes ways in which he is unworthy to be a king. 

What is he wants to test Macduff's honesty and loyalty to Scotland by stating that he has sexual desires for women, he will steal from others, and he will destroy Scotland? 

500
Elaborate on Macbeth's thoughts after hearing of Lady Macbeth's suicide.
What is she would have died anyways, and everyday is meaningless and repetitive? 
500

Identify the three things that Lady Macbeth reveals while she is sleepwalking. 

What is 

1. They killed Duncan

2. Banquo was murdered

3. Macduff's wife and children were murdered

500

After speaking with the witches, what does Macbeth mean when he says "Macbeth shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath to time and mortal custom?" Explain and identify literary element.

What is he will live out his full, natural life as King? Metaphor?

500

Explain the importance of Macduff's reaction to Malcolm's confessions. What does he say? 

What is

he is angry with Malcolm and prays for Scotland. He also believes that there is no hope for Scotland and that a tyrant will continue to reign as king. Macduff tells Malcolm that he is unfit to govern and unfit to live! 

500
Explain how the prophesy of Birnam Wood moving to Dunsinane Hill is fulfilled.
What is each man in the English force cuts down a bough to provide cover so that the size of the army is not known?