Macbeth Rocketbook Questions

Macbeth Rocketbook

Introduction

When was Macbeth first performed?

Who do scholars believe Shakespeare was trying to flatter?

Act One Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What serves as a "lens" for the audience?

3. What do the witches serve as an intermediary between?

4. What is doublespeak?

5. Pop Quiz #1

6. Pop Quiz #2

7. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Ross compare Macbeth to?

5. What is event four?

6. What are the storms a metaphor for?

7. What is an example of the motif of clothing?

8. What does Macbeth's inheritance through murder foreshadow?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What do the witches say about Banquo's children?

5. What is event four?

6. What is event five?

7. What is an "aside?"

8. What is Macbeth only one step away from?

9. What does Macbeth admit to himself he is thinking about?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 4

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does King Duncan name his son, Malcolm?

4. What is event four?

5. What does Duncan pay with for trusting Macbeth?

6. What does Duncan intend to ensure Macbeth reaches?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 5

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is Lady Macbeth's name for Macbeth's attraction to the throne?

6. What does Lady Macbeth not think Macbeth is capable of?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 6

1. What is event one?

2. What does King Duncan fail to see?

3. What is the Martlet Bird symbolic of?

4. What are Duncan and Banquo attracted to? What does this symbolize?

5. Throughout the play, what are birds symbolic representations of? What does the raven represent? What does the Martlet represent?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act One Scene 7

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is Lady Macbeth an "instrument" of?

6. Why does Lady Macbeth feel like the gender roles have been switched between her and Macbeth?

7. What does Lady Macbeth claim Macbeth swore to her? What does she say she would be willing to do if she swore to Macbeth?

8. What does Lady Macbeth's speech foreshadow?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is Lady Macbeth summoning Macbeth to when she rings the bell?

6. What is Macbeth no longer certain about?

7. How has Macbeth's view of humanity changed?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What does the audience not view?

6. What does Macbeth not trust?

7. Why couldn't Lady Macbeth kill the king herself?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Who does Macduff believe Duncan's murder was a crime against?

6. How does Macbeth view human life?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is the purpose of the conversation between Ross and the Old Man?

4. What do both Ross and the Old Man want?

5. What do they compare Scotland to?

6. What is the reversal of nature a metaphor for?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. According to the prophecy, what will happen to Banquo, but not Macbeth?

7. According to Macbeth, what must the murderers do to prove themselves as men?

8. What will Macduff turn his grief into?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is Lady Macbeth's solution for dealing with  things that cannot be cured?

5. What does Macbeth compare the murder of Duncan to?

6. What does the snake represent in the story?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What has become tight under Macbeth's rule?

3. What does Macbeth have a low opinion of?

4. How does Macbeth feel about trust?

5. What is Fleance a symbol for?

6, Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What does Macbeth's oath to his wife suggest?

6. What does Macbeth declare that he must act on?

7. What does Lady Macbeth appear to have?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Five

1. What is event one?

2. What does the supernatural world have?

3. What does Macbeth act from?

4. What does Hecate exploit Macbeth's self-interest for?

5. Where will Macbeth's desires lead him?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three Scene Six

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Lennox hint at?

5. What does Lennox applaud Macbeth's ability to not do?

6. What does this scene mark the beginning of the end of?

7.  What can "somewhere in Scotland" be understood to mean?

8. What audience was Shakespeare writing for?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What choice do the witches give Macbeth?

8. What types of things does Macbeth request to see while in the witches' house?

9. Who does Macbeth disown?

10. What does Macbeth want to channel himself?

11. What are Macbeth's eyes and brain replaced by?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. How does Lady Macduff's son say he will live if his father is dead?

4. What can nobody be sure of in Macbeth's world?

5. What does Lady Macduff feel that her husband is?

6. What has Macduff left his child fatherless in order to do?

7. What is the only reason that Macduff leaves his family?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What does Malcolm claim?

8. What does Macduff prove through Malcolm's test?

9. What does Malcolm say a "virtuous nature" may not be enough to stop?

10.  What will be used to usurp the throne.

11. What does Malcolm display a sense of ?

12. Pop Quiz #1

13. Pop Quiz #2

14. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene One

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What has Lady Macbeth become?

4. What is Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking symbolic of ?

5. What do we not know if Lady Macbeth feels?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Two

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What can Macbeth not buckle the belt of his rule around?

4. Who will become king if the invasion is successful?

5. What is Lennox more realistic about?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Three

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is Macbeth giving himself up to?

7. What does Macbeth accuse the servant of?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Four

1. What is event one?

2. What does Malcolm's strategy allow to come true?

3. What did Macbeth believe about the prophecies?

4. Pop Quiz #1

5. Pop Quiz #2

6. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Five

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. Who did Macbeth alienate through his killings?

5. What has Macbeth "gorged" himself on?

6. What does Macbeth finally see during his final soliloquy?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Six and Seven

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What does Macbeth compare himself to? What does he now understand about fate?

6. What is Macbeth's simile?

7. Where does Macbeth place the blame for his problems?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Eight

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. How is Macbeth depicted in his final scene?

5. What have the Macbeth's been cursed by throughout the play?

6. What deal does Macduff offer Macbeth?

7. What does Macbeth choose to die like?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Five Scene Nine

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is the "optimistic interpretation" of the final scene?

5. What is the "grisly interpretation" of the final scene?

6. What might the appearance of the bloody head at the close of the play be a sign of?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3