English 10 Adapted

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Act IV 

1. Witch 2 says, "By the pricking of my thumb, Something wicked this way comes." Who comes? 

2. What is Macbeth's attitude towards the witches this time? 

3. What four things did the witches show Macbeth? What does each show/say? What is Macbeth's reaction? 

4. Macbeth says (about the witches), "Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damned all those that trust them!" What is Macbeth, in effect, saying about himself? 

5. Where is Macduff? 

6. Why does Macbeth have Macduff's family and servants killed? 

7. Why does Lady Macduff's son say liars and swearers are fools? 

8. Malcolm says, "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so." What does that mean? 

9. Macduff says, "Oh, Scotland, Scotland!" Why? 

10. What news does Ross bring to Macduff? 

Act V 

1. What do the doctor and gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth doing? What do they decide to do about it? 

2. What does Macbeth want the doctor to do for his wife? 

3. What trick does Malcolm use to hide the number of men in his army? 

4. Malcolm says, "And none serve with him but constrained things Whose hearts are absent, too." What does that mean? 

5. What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death? 

6. What is Macbeth's reaction to the news that Birnam Wood is moving? 

7. Who first fights Macbeth? What happens? 

8. Macbeth says to Macduff, "But get thee back, my soul is too much charged With blood of thine already." To what is he referring? 

9. When does Macbeth know he's in trouble? 

10. How does Macbeth die? 

11. Who will be King of Scotland?