1. Who was king of Scotland at the beginning of the play? **Duncan**
2. Who prophesied that Macbeth would become king? **The witches**
3. What title does Macbeth hold at the beginning of the play? **Thane of Glamis**
4. What is Lady Macbeth's opinion of her husband? **That he is too hesitant and lacking in ambition**
5. How does Lady Macbeth convince Macbeth to kill Duncan? **By preying on his ambition and convincing him it is the only way to fulfill the prophecy**
6. Where does Macbeth kill Duncan? **In a bedroom in Macbeth's castle at Inverness**
7. Who does Lady Macbeth frame for Duncan's murder? **The guards, by smearing them with Duncan's blood**
8. After Duncan's death, what title does Macbeth assume? **King of Scotland**
9. What is the curse Lady Macbeth experiences after Duncan's murder? **Insomnia and washing her hands obsessively**
10. What title does Macbeth gain after he becomes king? **Thane of Cawdor**
11. Who crowns Macbeth king after Duncan's death? **Macbeth himself**
12. What are the witches prophecies for Macbeth at their second meeting? **That he will be throne but Banquo's children will be kings**
13. Who is Banquo and what is his connection to Macbeth? **His friend, also prophesied to be the father of future kings**
14. How does Macbeth react to the prophecy about Banquo's descendants? **With fear and paranoia**
15. What does Macbeth arrange to have done to Banquo and his son Fleance? **Have them murdered**
16. Who does Macbeth hire to murder Banquo and Fleance? **Three murderers**
17. Is Fleance successfully killed in the assassination? **No, he escapes**
18. What happens at the banquet Macbeth holds after the murder? **Banquo's ghost appears, terrifying Macbeth**
19. Whom does Macbeth visit next to learn more about his future? **The witches**
20. What is the main prophecy the witches give Macbeth at their third meeting? **That Macbeth will not be vanquished until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane and no man of woman born will be able to kill him**
21. Taking this to mean he is invincible, what does Macbeth do? **Feels secure in his reign as king**
22. Who is Macduff and what is his role in the story? **A thane who opposes Macbeth's reign and eventually helps bring him down**
23. What happens when Macbeth learns Macduff has fled to England to join Malcolm? **Has Macduff's family killed**
24. Who informs Macbeth of his wife Lady Macbeth's death? **A doctor and a servant**
25. How does Lady Macbeth die? **Commits suicide in a bout of guilt and madness**
26. Who invades Scotland with an army to overthrow Macbeth? **Malcolm, leading an English army**
27. How does Malcolm's army secretly advance upon Dunsinane disguised as what? **They carry branches from Birnam Wood to cloak their numbers**
28. When Macbeth learns Birnam Wood is moving toward Dunsinane, what does this make him realize? **That the witches' prophecy may come true**
29. Who ultimately kills Macbeth? **Macduff, who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"**
30. With Macbeth's death, who becomes king? **Malcolm**
31. What is one of the major themes of Macbeth? **Ambition**
32. What supernatural elements are present in the play? **The witches and their prophecies**
33. What real historical figures are characters based on in Macbeth? **Macbeth and King Duncan of Scotland**
34. In what year is the play set? **11th century Scotland**
35. For what royal house is Shakespeare's version of Macbeth sometimes seen as pro-propaganda? **The House of Stuart**
36. In what genre would Macbeth typically be classified? **Tragedy**
37. What poetic form is most of Macbeth written in? **Blank verse**
38. What is one symbolic element used in the play? **Blood**
39. When was Macbeth believed to have been written? **1603-1606**
40. What is one theme of moral corruption depicted in the play? **Ambition causing good men to become evil**
41. How do the three witches contribute to the plot and themes? **By prophesying events and sowing seeds of ambition in Macbeth**
42. Who is the protagonist of the play? **Macbeth**
43. Who murdered King Duncan in real history? **His nephews**
44. What is Lady Macbeth's nickname for her husband? **My dearest partner of greatness**
45. What does Lady Macbeth cite as Macbeth's only flaw? **His goodness**
46. Macbeth hallucinates seeing what after killing Duncan? **A bloody dagger**
47. How many sons does Macbeth prophesy Banquo will have that will be kings? **Eight**
48. Macbeth sends men to slaughter Macduff's family while he is in what country? **England**
49. Malcolm becomes the new King of Scotland at the end of the play with the support of whom? **Macduff**
50. What line does Lady Macbeth say indicates she wishes Duncan's blood would never be washed off? **"Here's the smell of blood still"**
51. Macbeth rules Scotland for how many years before Malcolm invades? **Seven or eight years**
52. Where are the three witches first encountered by Macbeth and Banquo? **A blasted heath**
53. Macbeth murders King Duncan at what title he holds at the start of the play? **Thane of Glamis**
54. What lands does Macbeth own at the start of the play? **Glamis**
55. What is another name used for the three witches? **The weird sisters**
56. Why does Macbeth become paranoid of Banquo? **He's afraid of the witches' prophecy about Banquo's descendants**
57. Who stabs King Duncan when Macbeth cannot? **Lady Macbeth**
58. At what point does Lady Macbeth go mad with guilt? **After Duncan's murder**
59. Who will Macbeth "jump the life to come"? **No one, he says he is too ambitious**
60. Whose execution in battle will not "yalded be by any pitiful cry"? **None, he is too bloodthirsty**
61. When does Lady Macbeth kill herself? **After she walks in her sleep, implying Duncan's murder**
62. Where is Birnam Wood located? **Near Dunsinane Hill**
63. Who warns Macbeth not to engage Malcolm's army, knowing prophecy will be fulfilled? **A doctor**
64. How does Macbeth meet his death? **Beheaded by Macduff after a duel**
65. What battlecry does Malcolm's army shout before engaging Macbeth? **"Freedom!"**
66. What land does Macbeth become Thane of just before becoming king? **Cawdor**
67. Who's grandson was King Duncan historically? **King Malcolm II of Scotland**
68. Where are the witches first encountered? **A heath**
69. How is Macduff characterized at the end? **A hero who helped end Macbeth's bloody reign**
70. What does Lady Macbeth try to wash off her hands? **Imagined blood from Duncan's murder**
71. Which character has ambition as a fatal flaw? **Macbeth**
72. What genre is Macbeth usually classified as? **Tragedy**
73. What country do the three witches hail from? **Hecate (a pagan goddess)**
74. Which character goes mad with guilt? **Lady Macbeth**
75. When Macbeth becomes king, what title does he hold? **King of Scotland**
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