Name That Character
What is the name of Banquo’s son that flees from death?
Fleance
What country is the play primarily set?
Scotland
What are Macbeth’s ambitions fuelled by?
Ambition
How many witches appear in the first scene of the play?
Three (3)
Who sits in Macbeth’s chair at the banquet?
What are the names of Duncan’s sons?
Malcolm and Donalbain
Where are the witches shown to gather?
Upon a heath
Who kills Macbeth, and what prophecy does this fulfill?
Macduff; “no man of woman-born can kill Macbeth” ( he was “ripped from his mother’s womb)”
Who is the queen of the witches?
Hecate
Why does Lady Macbeth say she can't kill Duncan?
He looks like her father
Whose wife and son does Macbeth arrange to have murdered and why?
Macduff's family; to weaken his resolve to challenge Macbeth's authority and strike fear into him
What is the name of Macbeth’s castle?
Inverness
Who attempted to kill Macbeth but was not able to?
Young Siward
What three titles do the witches address Macbeth as after battle?
Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and as future King of Scotland
As Ms. Piva says, who “wears the pants” in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship? Provide one (1) example why!
Lady Macbeth
Who does Macbeth have killed in belief that they knew Macbeth and Lady Macbeth killed Duncan?
Banquo
Identify two (2) instances of how we can see the theme of ambition within the play
Answers may include but are not limited to: Macbeth’s killing of Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff’s family; Lady’s Macbeth arranging Duncan’s murder
What four apparitions appear to Macbeth when he revisits the Witches in Act 4?
1. Armed head (Beware Macduff; decapitated head of Macbeth);
2. Bloody child (None of woman born; Macbeth was born from "c-section");
3. Crowned child holding a tree (safe until Great Birnam Wood moves up Dunsinane Hill; Malcolm leads his army up the hill from the Great Birnam Wood holding branches);
4. Line of eight kings, followed by Banquo's ghost (Banquo's descendants will be kings)
Provide two (2) examples of how we see the theme of the supernatural through the characters of the witches.
Answers may include but may not be limited to: their appearance, predictions, rituals, impact on Macbeth, memorable and rhythmic lines
What two hallucinations does Macbeth experience in the play?
The dagger and the ghost of Banquo
Who says this about Macbeth? "Yet do I fear nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way"
Lady Macbeth
Identify three (3) examples of how we can see the theme of guilt within the play
Answers may include but are not limited to: Macbeth’s hallucinations (dagger and Banquo); Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness (washing hands); Lady Macbeth’s death
What do the three apparitions foretell to Macbeth in a larger context of the play?
His downfall
How is the prophecy of Birnam Wood moving to Dunsinane Hill 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
What moral lesson can be learned in Macbeth?
The dangers of unchecked ambition; it needs to be controlled