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Flashcard Set: Macbeth (Acts 3–5)

Act 3, Scene 1

🔹 Q: Why does Macbeth fear Banquo?
🔹 A: Because the witches predicted Banquo’s descendants would be kings.

🔹 Q: What does Macbeth do to Banquo and Fleance?
🔹 A: He hires assassins to kill them, but Fleance escapes.

Act 3, Scene 2

🔹 Q: How does Macbeth’s attitude toward murder change in this scene?
🔹 A: He becomes more independent, not telling Lady Macbeth about his plan.

Act 3, Scene 3

🔹 Q: What happens in the assassination attempt?
🔹 A: Banquo is killed, but Fleance escapes.

Act 3, Scene 4

🔹 Q: Why does Macbeth see Banquo’s ghost?
🔹 A: His guilt and paranoia manifest in a hallucination.

🔹 Q: How does Lady Macbeth react to Macbeth’s behavior?
🔹 A: She tries to calm him and dismiss his visions as a sickness.

Act 3, Scene 5

🔹 Q: Who is Hecate, and why is she angry?
🔹 A: She is the queen of the witches and is angry they helped Macbeth without her.

Act 3, Scene 6

🔹 Q: Where has Macduff gone?
🔹 A: To England to seek Malcolm’s help in overthrowing Macbeth.

Act 4, Scene 1

🔹 Q: What are the three apparitions the witches show Macbeth?
1⃣ A helmeted head: Beware Macduff
2⃣ A bloody child: No man born of woman will harm him
3⃣ A crowned child with a tree: He won’t be defeated until Birnam Wood moves

🔹 Q: What vision frightens Macbeth the most?
🔹 A: Banquo’s descendants as future kings.

Act 4, Scene 2

🔹 Q: What happens to Macduff’s family?
🔹 A: They are murdered by Macbeth’s orders.

Act 4, Scene 3

🔹 Q: How does Malcolm test Macduff’s loyalty?
🔹 A: By pretending to be an evil ruler.

🔹 Q: How does Macduff react to his family’s murder?
🔹 A: He vows to kill Macbeth.

Act 5, Scene 1

🔹 Q: What does Lady Macbeth do while sleepwalking?
🔹 A: She tries to wash imaginary blood from her hands.

Act 5, Scene 2

🔹 Q: What do Malcolm’s forces plan to do?
🔹 A: March on Dunsinane to overthrow Macbeth.

Act 5, Scene 3

🔹 Q: How does Macbeth feel about his safety?
🔹 A: Overconfident due to the witches’ prophecies.

Act 5, Scene 4

🔹 Q: How does Malcolm use Birnam Wood?
🔹 A: His soldiers cut branches for camouflage, fulfilling the prophecy.

Act 5, Scene 5

🔹 Q: What news does Macbeth receive?
🔹 A: Lady Macbeth is dead.

🔹 Q: What is Macbeth’s famous reaction to life’s meaninglessness?
🔹 A: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Act 5, Scene 6

🔹 Q: What happens in this battle scene?
🔹 A: Malcolm’s forces storm Macbeth’s castle.

Act 5, Scene 7

🔹 Q: Who does Macbeth kill in battle?
🔹 A: Young Siward.

Act 5, Scene 8

🔹 Q: What shocking fact does Macduff reveal?
🔹 A: He was born via C-section, so he is not "of woman born."

🔹 Q: What happens to Macbeth?
🔹 A: Macduff kills him.

Act 5, Scene 9

🔹 Q: Who becomes king?
🔹 A: Malcolm.