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Macbeth Test

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Question 1
1.

Who does Macbeth split from "the nave to the chops"?

Question 2
2.

What is seemingly paradoxical or tricky about the witches initial prophecy?

Question 3
3.

What does the following quote mean? "Look th' innocent flower,/but be the serpent under 't." -Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

Question 4
4.

When a character speaks to himself/herself revealing their inner thoughts aloud regardless of any potential hearers, it is called _______.

Question 5
5.

When a character speaks either to himself, the audience, or another character without being overheard by the other characters on stage, this is called ____________.

Question 6
6.

What does Lady Macbeth's soliloquy below most likely mean? “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!”

Question 7
7.

Who serves as comic relief and jokes he works at he gate of Hell?

Question 8
8.

Who killed King Duncan?

Question 9
9.

"Had I but died an hour before this chance,/I had lived a blessed time." When Macbeth said this to all on the crime scene of King Duncan's death, ________ began to suspect him as the murderer.

Question 10
10.

After Lady Macbeth reads the letter from her husband what is she concerned about?

Question 11
11.

Macbeth heard a voice after killing King Duncan, what did it say?

Question 12
12.

When Donalbain says, "Where we are,/There's daggers in men's smiles," to Malcolm he means

Question 13
13.

Malcolm and Donalbain fled to _______ and ________.

Question 14
14.

The following is the definition for which literary term? When the audience knows something the characters do not. Also, when the words/actions of a character take on a different meaning for the audience than the characters. The audience knows something the characters do not.

Question 15
15.

What does Macbeth decide to do about his “friend”?

Question 16
16.

During the banquet, whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair?

Question 17
17.

When Macbeth says to the murderers, "But Banquo's safe?" what literary device is used?

Question 18
18.

When Macbeth says, "they say blood will have blood," he has made the realization that violence _______________.

Question 19
19.

"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." is a chant the witches use to do what?

Question 20
20.

What/who is the "something wicked this way comes"?

Question 21
21.

What are the three things the apparitions tell Macbeth (in Act 4 specifically)?

Question 22
22.

What is the final vision the witches show Macbeth?

Question 23
23.

In order to get revenge on Macduff, Macbeth ___________.

Question 24
24.

What is the medicine that Malcolm says they should take to cure their "deadly grief"?

Question 25
25.

Who says this and what does it mean? "Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself/Within my sword's length set him. If he 'scape/Heaven forgive him too."

Question 26
26.

Question 27
27.

Who says, "I will not be afraid of death and bane/Till Birnum Forest come to Dunsinane," and why?

Question 28
28.

What does Macbeth say he regrets upon reflection on his life?

Question 29
29.

When and why does Lady Macbeth say the following? "Out, damned spot, out I say!"

Question 30
30.

Which BEST describes how Lady Macbeth died?

Question 31
31.

When Malcolm says to Macduff, "This tyrant...was once thought honest. You have loved him well. He hath not touched you yet..." it is an example of ____________ because the audience knows what Macbeth just did to Macduff's family.

Question 32
32.

How does Birnam Wood reach Dunsinane Hill?

Question 33
33.

What does Macduff say will happen if he doesn't kill Macbeth?

Question 34
34.

Why is the following quote important? "Despair thy charm,/And let the angel whom thou still hast served/Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb/Untimely ripped."

Question 35
35.

What does blood symbolize throughout the play?

Question 36
36.

When Macbeth gives his soliloquy about Lady Macbeth's death, the section below is a ________ that means ____________. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

Question 37
37.

Who says, "And let the angel whom thou hast served/Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb/Untimely ripped, and why?

Question 38
38.

Why does Macbeth fight Macduff despite learning the truth of the prophecies?

Question 39
39.

At the end of the play who becomes King of Scotland?

Question 40
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