Starter quiz

  • Match the first three scenes of Act 3 of 'Macbeth' to their plot points
    • Act 3, Scene 1
      Macbeth plots Banquo and Fleance's murders. ✓
    • Act 3, Scene 2
      Lady Macbeth is unhappy and isolated from Macbeth. ✓
    • Act 3, Scene 3
      Banquo is murdered; Fleance escapes. ✓
  • In Act 1, Scene 4 of 'Macbeth', King Duncan appoints his heir (the person who will be King after him), securing the future stability of Scotland. Who does he name as his heir?
    • Banquo
    • Fleance
    • Macbeth
    • Macduff
    • Malcolm  ✓
  • 'Macbeth's' first audiences were Jacobean. Which of the following moments in the play would a Jacobean audience have seen as unnatural and wrong?
    • Lady Macbeth relying on "spirits" to "unsex her".  ✓
    • The act of regicide.  ✓
    • King Duncan appointing an heir.
    • Macbeth engaging with the witches' prophecies.  ✓
    • King Duncan staying at the Macbeths' castle.
  • In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', how does Lady Macbeth goad Macbeth into regicide, even though he has decided against it?
    • She questions his loyalty to her.  ✓
    • She suggests he would be a better King than Duncan.
    • She says that Banquo would have done it, had he promised her.
    • She says the witches will help him.
    • She undermines his masculinity.  ✓
  • In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth goads Macbeth into regicide saying, 'When you durst do it, then you were a...'
    • 'man' ✓
  • In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', Macbeth talks about Duncan's good qualities as a King. What does he say they are?
    • His ambition.
    • His meekness and humbleness.  ✓
    • His honesty and integrity.  ✓
    • His valour on the battlefield.
    • His duplicity.
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