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| To avoid the alleged curse surrounding the play, what title is used instead of Macbeth? | Scottish play |
| In what country is the play primarily set? | Scotland |
| During what century is the play set, matching actual history? | 11th century or 1000s |
| How long did Macbeth actually reign? | 17 years, 1040-1057 |
| What historical work served as the main source for Shakespeare? | Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland |
| Who said, "...why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" | Macbeth |
| Who said, "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face"? | Duncan |
| Who said, "Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness"? | Lady Macbeth |
| Who said, "Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"? | Lady Macbeth |
| Who said, "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition"? | Macbeth |
| Who said, "False faace must hide what the false heart doth know"? | Macbeth |
| Identify the him: "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it." | Thane of Cawdor |
| Who said to Macbeth, "Leave all the rest to me." | Lady Macbeth |
| Who said, "But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail." | Lady Macbeth |
| Where is Duncan's castle? | Forres |
| Where is Macbeth's castle in Act 1? | Inverness |
| Who is the King of Scotland in Act 1? | Duncan |
| In addition to general, what two titles of nobility does Macbeth already possess in Act 1? | Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor |
| What fellow general helps Macbeth defeat Duncan's enemies? | Banquo |
| Who is "lesser than Macbeth, and greater?" | Banquo |
| Who is "not so happy, yet much happier" than Macbeth? | Banquo |
| Who "shalt get kings, though thou be none?" | Banquo |
| Who is Graymalkin? | gray/black cat, a familiar/spirit |
| Who is Paddock | toad, a familiar/spirit |
| Identify two Literary devices: "When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won." | (end) rhyme, parallelism |
| Who receives the title Prince of Cumberland? | Malcolm |
| Who is Dunan's older son? | Malcolm |
| Who is Duncan's younger son? | Donalbain |
| Identify two literary devices: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." | parallelism, paradox |
| How is Macbeth related to Duncan? | They are cousins; their mothers were sisters. |
| Who was "unseamed" from "the nave to th' chops" by Macbeth in battle? | Macdownwald |
| What foreign ruler has joined the battle against Scotland? | King Sweno of Norway |
| Finish the quote: "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us ____." | truths |
| Duncan describes this person as "a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust." | Thane of Cawdor |
| Identify literary devices: "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan." | imagery, symbolism, foreshadowing, onomatopoeia |
| Identify at least three reasons Macbeth admits should prevent him from killing Duncan. | Duncan is his kinsman; he is Duncan's subject; he is Duncan's host; Duncan is virtuous/innocent. |
| Identify the liteary devices:"...look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't." | imagery, metaphor, contrast/opposition, irony |
