Bard Games by Victor Cahn

Author:Victor Cahn [Cahn, Victor L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Quiz #40 Macbeth

The shortest of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Macbeth is an unparalleled portrait of ambition, crime, and guilt. Here are a few questions of interest.

1. Why is Banquo uncertain about the gender of the witches?

2. “Nothing in his life

Became him like the leaving it.”

Of whom is Macbeth speaking?

3. What title does Duncan bestow on Malcolm?

4. Complete this line from Lady Macbeth as she muses about her husband:

“Yet I do fear thy nature,

It is too full __ ___ ___ __ _____ ________ . . .”

5. What reason does Lady Macbeth offer for her failure to kill Duncan?

6. After the murder, what word can Macbeth not utter?

7. Who discovers that Duncan has been murdered?

8. Where is Macbeth crowned?

9. Whom does Macbeth claim to assign to join the two Murderers?

10. At the banquet, where does the Ghost of Banquo sit?

11. What does Lady Macbeth describe as “the season of all natures”?

12. What line of the second Witch is also the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury?

13. When Macbeth meets the witches for the second time, what does he seek to know from them?

14. What three apparitions do the witches show Macbeth?

15. Before his own death at the hands of Macduff, whom does Macbeth kill in combat?

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