Macbeth Act 4 Quiz

motif

A recurring theme, subject or idea

What is something wicked that this way comes?

Macbeth

What does the armed head tell Macbeth?

Beware of Macduff

What does the bloody child tell Macbeth?

No man born of woman will hurt Macbeth

What does the child with a crown and tree branch tell Macbeth?

He won't be defeated until Birnam Forest marches to Dunsinane

What does the anonymous messenger come to warn Lady Macduff about?

the murderers are coming for her and her family

Why does Malcolm test Macduff?

Malcolm tests Macduff because he's afraid that Macbeth sent Macduff to get Malcolm and trick him to return home. He wants to assure that Macduff is actually truthful in saying that he doesn't like Macbeth. After all, they all were very fond of him before he came king.

After he receives word of his family's murder, what does Malcolm urge Macduff to do?

get revenge

Where does Act 4, Scene 3 take place?

England

"Fear breeds rumors, though what we fear is uncertain" is an example of?

personification

"He has a father, but he is fatherless" is an example of?

paradox

"We are tossed about this way and that, as if in a storm at sea" is an example of?

simile

Who said, "he had none. His flight was madness. Fear makes us traitors even when our actions don't"

Lady Macduff

Who said "He has no children! All my pretty ones? Did you say all? Oh, the fiend"

Macduff

"The royal father /Was a most sainted king" Who is the father?

Duncan

"Devilish Macbeth/ By many of these trains hath sought to win me/ Into his power" Who is me?

Malcolm

"Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward/ To what they were before. My pretty cousin..." Who is my pretty cousin?

Lady Macduff

"...give to the edge o' the sword/ His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls/ That trace him in his line" Who is his?

Macduff

Lady Macduff calls her husband a "traitor" because she believes that he has betrayed....

his family

How do the apparitions in general leave Macbeth feeling?

encouraged