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Macbeth
Questions and Quotes
All questions must be answered in sentence form. You must also provide a direct
quote to support your answer as well include the line from the text.
Act I Scene I
Questions
1. Who do the witches plan to meet when the battle is over?
2. What kind of mood is established in this scene?
3. One example of antithesis is: “Man proposes, God disposes”. Find at least one
other example of an antithesis. How does the use of the antithesis emphasize the
mood?
4. How would Shakespeare’s audience react to the witches?
Act I Scene II
Questions
1. What news has the captain brought to King Duncan?
2. What further news is brought by Ross?
3. What is King Duncan’s reaction to the news about Cawdor?
YOU MUST ANSWER QUOTE #1 AS WELL.
Act I Scene III
Questions
1. What do the witches discuss as they await the arrival of Mac Beth?
2. How do the witches surprise Macbeth and Banquo?
3. What do they tell Banquo?
4. How could Banquo be “lesser than Macbeth, and greater”; “not so happy, yet
much happier”?
5. What does Macbeth demand of the witches?
6. What news does Ross relate?
7. How do Macbeth and Banquo react differently to Ross’s information?
Act I Scene IV
Questions
1. How did Cawdor die?
2. How had King Duncan always felt about Cawdor?
3. What announcement does King Duncan make after he, Macbeth, and Banquo
exchange warm greetings?
4. How does Macbeth view the Prince of Cumberland?
Act I Scene V
Questions
1. As Duncan arrives at Inverness, does he suspect that anything could be wrong?
How do you know?
2. What is ironic about the way Duncan and Lady Macbeth speak?
YOU MUST ANSWER QUOTE #2, 3 AND 4 AS WELL.
Act I Scene VI
Questions
1. Provide three instances of dramatic irony in this scene.
2. What impressions of Duncan do we gain from this scene?
YOU MUST ANSWER QUOTE #5 AND 6 AS WELL.
Act I Scene VII
Questions
1. Macbeth considers five good reasons for not killing Duncan. What are they?
2. Analyze Lady Macbeth’s method of winning back Macbeth to proceeding with
the murder.
YOU MUST ANSWER QUOTE #7 AND 8 AS WELL.
Quotes
Please answer who is speaking, to whom, the dramatic significance, and the line
number.
1. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”.
2. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”.
3. “If chance will make me King, why chance may crown me…without my stir”.
4. “Stars hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
5. “Yet do I fear thy nature; it is full of the milk of human kindness”.
6. “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”.
7. “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”.
8. “If it were done when it’s done, then t’were well it were done quickly”.