Quiz Quiz Trade Trade – Macbeth

Question: Question: Question:

What does Macbeth see Who kills Macbeth? What is the character of
before he kills Duncan? Macbeth’s first line in the
Answer: play?
Answer: Macduff
A dagger Answer:
‘So foul and fair a day I have
not seen.’

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What imagery does the What does Macbeth call Why does Macbeth want to
character of Macbeth use to Banquo in Act 3 scene 1? kill Fleance?
goad the murderers?
Answer: Answer:
Answer: ‘our chief guest’ Because the witches
Nature and animals prophesised that Banquo’s
children would ‘beget’ kings

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What does Lady Macbeth Why can the character of What is the character of
berate Macbeth for not doing Macduff kill Macbeth? Macbeth’s initial reaction to
on the night of the murder? the thought of killing King
Answer: Duncan?
Answer: Macduff was born by
Smearing blood on the faces caesarean section Answer:
of the guards Anxiety – as he worries about
the consequences
Question: Question: Question:
Which character(s) are a Which character does not What name do the
reflection of evil? attend Mabeth’s coronation? characters of the witches
refer to themselves?
Answer: Answer:
The Witches Macduff Answer:
‘The Weird Sisters’

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State two quotations which What term is given to a What literary term can be
describe the character of dramatic convention allowing used to describe the dialogue
Macbeth’s bravery in Act 1 a character to speak directly of the witches’ predictions?
scene 2? to the audience?
Answer:
Answer: Answer: Ambiguity
‘Valour’s minion’ or ‘Bellona’s Soliloquy
bridegroom’ or ‘valiant’ or
‘worthy gentleman’
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Which elements of weather Which theme does the Why is the imagery of
does Shakespeare link to the witches’ prophecies establish clothing significant within the
characters of the witches? within the play? play – ‘borrowed robes’?

Answer: Answer: Answer:

Thunder and rain Fate Suggests concealment and
disguise

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How does the announcement In Shakespeare’s time who Blood is an example of what
of Malcom as heir to the was the king considered to be literary device?
throne drive the plot next in line to?
forward? Answer:
Answer: Motif
Answer: God
Motives Macbeth to commit
murder and treason
Question: Question: Question:
What technique is the phrase Macbeth is awarded the What present did Duncan
‘too full o’ the milk of human Thane of Cawdor, what was send to Lady Macbeth?
kindness’? his title at the start of the
play? Answer:
Answer: A diamond
Metaphor Answer:
Thane of Glamis

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What is Macbeth’s What is the literary Who says: ‘sleep no more’?
justification for killing the technique: ‘a heavy summons
King? lies like lead upon me’? Answer:
Macbeth
Answer: Answer:
Ambition Simile

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Who are suspected of paying What type of hero is the What literary technique is:
the guards to kill the king? character of Macbeth? ‘O, full of scorpions is my
mind’?
Answer: Answer:
Malcolm and Donaldbain A tragic hero Answer:
Imagery
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In which scene is Banquo The theme of light and dark Who says this line: ‘Who did
murdered?” runs through the play; the strike out the light?’?
character of Macbeth is
Answer: associated with which? Answer:
Act 3 scene 3 Third murderer
Answer:
Dark

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In which scene does Banquo’s Which literary device does Which literary device are the
ghost appear? Shakespeare use as Banquo’s following: witches,
ghost occupies Macbeth’s prophecies, dagger, ghost?
Answer: seat at the banquet?
Act 3 scene 4 Answer:
Answer: Motifs (supernatural)
Foreshadowing

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Who is the goddess of Which literary technique is: In which scene is Macbeth
witchcraft? ‘banquets bloody’? told the three prophecies?

Answer: Answer: Answer:

Hecate Alliteration Act 4 scene 1

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What are the three Who is being referred to in Which theme(s) are
prophecies told to Macbeth the line: ‘something wicked illustrated in Act 4 scene 2 –
in Act 4 scene 1? this way comes’? murder of Macduff’s family?

Answer: Answer: Answer:

Fear Macduff; Macbeth Loyalty and treachery
Cannot be harmed by one
born of woman;
Secure until Birnan Wood
comes to Dunsinane
Question: Question: Question:
Who says this line: ‘What all How does Shakespeare Who says this line: ‘What’s
my pretty chickens/and their depict the psychological done is done’?
dam, at one fell swoop?’? ‘truth’ of a mental breakdown
through the character of Answer:
Answer: Lady Macbeth in Act 5 scene Lady Macbeth
Macduff 1?

Answer:
Somnambulism (sleep walking)
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Who says this line: ‘A little Who says this line: ‘Will all What is different about the
water clears us of this deed’? great Neptune’s ocean wash setting in Act 5 scene 2 and
this blood/Clean from my 4?
Answer: hand? No’
Lady Macbeth Answer:
Answer: The audience are shown the
Macbeth plans, preparations and
advances of the rebels.
Question: Question: Question:
In which scene do the Who says this line: ‘I ‘gin to Who says this line: ‘this dead
prophecies start to unravel? be aweary of the sun’? butcher’?

Answer: Answer: Answer:

Act 5 scene 5 Macbeth Malcom

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Which character is Who says this line: ‘Out, Does the character of Lady
presented as, dominant, damned spot! Out, I say’? Macbeth conform to the
cunning, determined and contemporary ideal of
haunted? Answer: womanhood for a
Lady Macbeth Shakespearean audience?
Answer:
Lady Macbeth Answer:
No
Question: Question: Question:
Who is ‘Lesser than Macbeth, Who suspects that the Which character embodies
and greater’? character of Macbeth has the qualities of a loving
‘playedst most foully’? mother and wife?
Answer:
Banquo Answer: Answer:
Banquo Lady Macduff

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Which theme does In the play Shakespeare’s Who says this line: ‘It will
Shakespeare employ as the character mostly speak in have blood; they say, blood
driving force of Macbeth’s blank verse, except for will have blood’?
life? whom?
Answer:
Answer: Answer: Macbeth
Ambition The Witches