| If chance wants him to be king, “chance will crown” him. | Macbeth |
| comes up with the plan to assassinate the king | Lady Macbeth |
| will never be king, but will be the father of kings | Banquo |
| Duncan’s eldest son | Malcolm |
| Head was cut off and placed on the castle wall. | Macdonwald |
| King of Scotland | Duncan |
| “Hover through the fog and the filthy air.” | the Witches |
| executed for being a traitor | Thane of Cawdor |
| the ones Lady Macbeth plans to blame the murder on | the guards |
| Lady Macbeth’s reaction when Macbeth calls off the plan to murder the king | fury |
| a confusing feature of the witches’ appearance | beards |
| “For brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name–/Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, /Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valor’s minion carved out his blood passage/Till he faced the slave.” | Captain |
| “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.” | Lady Macbeth |
| “When the hurly-burley’s done,/When the battle’s lost and won.” | the Witches |
| “My noble partner/You greet with present grace and great prediction/Of noble having and of royal hope,/That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not.” | Banquo |
| things of little importance or value | trifles |
| imagines a dagger leading him to the king’s chamber | Macbeth |
| “But this place is too cold for hell.” | Porter |
| Banquo’s son | Fleance |
| “Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but pictures.” | Lady Macbeth |
| found the king dead | Macduff |
| flees to England | Malcolm |
| Duncan’s younger son | Donalbain |
| has nightmares about the witches | Banquo |
| True or False: The weather and environment are indicators of strange things happening in the play. | True |
| True or False: Macbeth does not have any second thoughts about killing King Duncan. | False |
| True or False: Macbeth is concerned because he is unable to say “Amen” when the guards say “God help us.” | True |
| True or False: Lady Macbeth could not murder the king herself because Duncan looked too much like her father. | True |
| True or False: From the very start, Lady Macbeth is upset that there is so much blood involved in killing Duncan. | False |
| The Porter is meant to provide comic relief. | True |
| “A little water clears us of this deed./How easy is it then!” | Lady Macbeth |
| “Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell (bell)/That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.” | Macbeth |
| safely escapes the ambush in the woods | Fleance |
| suspects Macbeth of murdering Duncan | Banquo |
| refuses to come when Macbeth calls for him | Macduff |
| True or False: Macbeth sees the ghost of Duncan at the table. | False |
| True or False: Lady Macbeth sees the ghost at the table. | False |
| the goddess of witchcraft | Hecate |
| True or False: Macbeth startles his dinner guests by suffering from an epileptic seizure. | False |
| True or False: After a while, Lady Macbeth begins to regret how she became queen. | True |
| True or False: Banquo secretly hopes that the witches’ prophecies will come true for him, too. | True |
| “Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus,/And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat./The fit is momentary; upon a thought/He will again be well.” | Lady Macbeth |
| a harsh or cruel leader | tyrant |
| a ceremonial staff or rod | scepter |
| “Beware Macduff.” | First Apparition |
| “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.” | Second Apparition |
| Macbeth cannot be harmed “until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill/Shall come against him.” | Third Apparition |
| entire family is slaughtered | Macduff |
| wants to know if Banquo’s descendants will reign | Macbeth |
| True or False: Macduff is a coward who abandoned his family. | False |
| True or False: Lady Macduff understands and graciously accepts why her husband left. | False |
| True or False: Malcolm and Macduff join forces to overthrow Macbeth. | True |
| True or False: The witches showed Macbeth a line of men who looked like Banquo. | True |
| “Infected be the air upon which they ride;/And damn’d all those that trust them!” | Macbeth |
| “All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O Hell-kite — All?” | Macduff |
| “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” | Lady Macbeth |
| wants the Doctor to just give Lady Macbeth some medicine to “cure” her ills | Macbeth |
| has heard Lady Macbeth confess to the murders | the Gentlewoman |
| “Tyrant, show thy face!/If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine,/My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.” | Macduff |
| True or False: Lady Macbeth’s doctor knows he cannot cure her and fears she may kill herself. | True |
| True or False: Malcolm, Siward, and Macduff join forces to overthrow Macbeth. | True |
| True or False: Macbeth does not fear Malcolm because he is “of woman born.” | True |
| True or False: Macbeth feels no guilt about killing Macduff’s family and is eager to kill him, too. | False |
| True or False: Macduff becomes the new King of Scotland. | False |
| True or False: Macbeth kills Lady Macbeth to relieve her of her sickness. | False |
| True or False: Macduff cuts off Macbeth’s head as a trophy of battle. | True |
| “The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?/What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” | Lady Macbeth |
| “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” | the Witches |
| “Life is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing.” | Macbeth |
| was “from his mother’s womb, untimely ripped” | Macduff |
Macbeth Study Guide- Review Entire Play
August 16, 2019