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100
Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king hereafter.
Who is Macbeth?
100
Tells Macbeth to "beware Macduff."
What is the first apparition/armed head?
100
The two men who flee Scotland after Duncan's murder.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
100
The son of Banquo who escapes from an attempted murder.
Who is Fleance?
100
The number of people Macbeth kills.
What is three?
200
King of Scotland when the play begins, and father of Malcolm and Donalbain.
Who is Duncan?
200
The second apparition that tells Macbeth "no man born of a woman" shall harm him.
What is a bloody child?
200
The reason Lady Macbeth feels that she has "blood on her hands", figuratively.
What is she feels guilt because of her involvement in Duncan's murder?
200
Refuses to leave after a messenger warns of impending doom.
Who is Lady Macduff?
200
What Lady Macbeth is doing when she reveals secrets about the murders of Banquo, Duncan, and Macduff's family.
What is sleepwalking?
300
Plotter of Duncan's murder.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
300
The way the second round of the witches' predictions cause Macbeth to act.
What is overconfident?
300
The reason Macduff does not attend Macbeth's coronation or celebration feast.
Macduff is suspicious of Macbeth.
300
An ally of Malcolm who is thought to be a "healer".
Who is the King of England?
300
The reason Lady Macbeth wishes to be "unsexed."
What is so she can be rid of her feminine instincts and attributes to plot the murder of Duncan?
400
Delivers news of the murder of Macduff's family.
Who is Ross?
400
Finds out from a prediction that his descendants will be kings of Scotland.
Who is Banquo?
400
Horses eating other horses, the wind screaming, and an owl attacking a hawk are examples of this.
What is upheaval in the natural world that reflects the upheaval in the kingdom?
400
Head witch in charge.
Who is Hecate?
400
What Macbeth feels about life after Lady Macbeth kills herself.
What is life is short and can be meaningless if you let power corrupt?
500
Thane of Fife who is born by a Caesarean section.
Who is Macduff?
500
The third apparition, a child wearing a crown and holding a tree, says this to Macbeth.
What is the forest will rise up to attack Macbeth.
500
Macbeth is given this title after defeating Macdonwald and showing his loyalty to Duncan.
What is Thane of Cawdor?
500
Is with Macbeth and Macduff when the discovery is made of Duncan's murder.
Who is Lennox?
500
Macbeth "fails" in the plot to murder Duncan by doing this.
What is taking the murder weapon from the scene of the crime?