Macbeth Test Study Guide
AP Lang - 4th Quarter
Who are the weird sisters?
What do they predict? Who do they talk to?
What are Macbeth’s titles/jobs?
Who does Lady Macbeth frame? How?
Who is more eager to murder?
Macbeth or Lady Macbeth
Who are Macbeth’s “loose ends”?
Who is “not born of woman”?
Although Macbeth believes that he cannot be killed by any man born of a woman, he soon learns that Macduff was "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripped" (5.10.15-16). The two fight, and Macduff slays Macbeth offstage.
What does that mean?
What’s Banquo’s prediction?
What do the weird sisters say about Banquo?��
What happened to the original Thane of Cawdor?
Whose ghost is at the banquet?
Malcolm is supported by...
Mac
Wait. Who is Malcolm again?
When/what is Macbeth’s downfall?
Who said it and what does it mean?
“Out, damned spot! Out I say!”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me.
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“Be comforted,
Let’s make med’cines of our great revenge
To cure this deadly grief.”
Who said it and what does it mean?
“He has killed me, mother.” [Dies.]
Who said it and what does it mean?
“Though hast it now - King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the Weird Women promised; and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t.”