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Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
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What two prophecies do the witches make for Macbeth?
That he will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland
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What object does Macbeth see in scene 1?
A dagger covered in blood
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What happens to Fleance when the murderers approach?
He flees
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What does the bloody child reveal to Macbeth?
That no man born of a woman will harm him.
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Why does Lady Macbeth's gentlewoman call the doctor?
She is sleepwalking
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What is the one thing Macbeth is indecisive about in the first act?
Whether or not he should kill Macbeth.
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What physical part does Lady Macbeth play in King Duncan's murder?
She drugged the guards and placed the daggers on them after Macbeth murdered Duncan.
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"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus"
Macbeth
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What news does Ross bring to Macduff?
That his family and servants have been murdered.
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What is Lady Macbeth trying to get off her hands?
Duncan's blood
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What is Macbeth's final decision about murdering Duncan?
That he will kill Duncan in his sleep and blame it on his guards.
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Who does Macbeth kill once Macduff discovers Duncan's lifeless body?
The two guards
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Who appears to Macbeth at the banquet?
Banquo's ghost
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"Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them."
Macduff's son
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What happens at the fight between Macduff and Macbeth?
Macduff kills Macbeth and cuts his head off
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Who said this? "O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters."
Lady Macbeth
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"Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i' th' name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty."
The porter
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What are Malcolm and Macduff plotting?
They have sought out King Edward to help them defeat Macbeth.
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After seeing visions from the visions from the witches and receiving the news that Macduff has fled to England, what does Macbeth decide to do?
Kill Macduff's family
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Who becomes the new King of Scotland?
Malcolm
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What type of verse is Macbeth written in?
Blank Verse
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"The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to the woeful time." What theme does this quote allude to?
When nature is off course, people seem to be off course as well.
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What did Shakespeare use for both inspiration and information to shape the characters of Macbeth?
Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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What do Malcolm and Macduff decide to do?
Attack Scotland and Macbeth
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What metrical pattern is Macbeth written in?
Blank verse