Macbeth ACTS 1, 2, & 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VERIFIED GUARANTEED FOR SUCCESS.
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MACBETH
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MACBETH
what is the name that the witches go by or are referred to as throughout the play? - correct answer The Weird Sisters
What two wars are the Scottish fighting at the beginning of the play? - correct answer The Scottish Civil War and the war against Norway
How do we (and Duncan) know ...
what is the name that the witches go by or are referred to as throughout the play? - correct answer
The Weird Sisters
What two wars are the Scottish fighting at the beginning of the play? - correct answer The Scottish
Civil War and the war against Norway
How do we (and Duncan) know that Macbeth is brave and a good soldier/warrior? - correct answer
he defeated the Thane of Cawdor and he killed Macdonwald
How does Duncan reward Macbeth for his bravery? - correct answer he names him Thane of Cawdor
Comment on the order in which Duncan announces it and Macbeth finds out. Why does that matter? -
correct answer Macbeth finds out that he will be called the Thane of Cawdor before Duncan
announces it. That matters because he found out through the witches' prophecy before Duncan told
him, which leads him to believe that the rest of the prophecy will come true.
Macbeth calls the day of the battle "foul and fair". Comment on what you think he means. - correct
answer
What literary device or technique is "foul and fair a day?" - correct answer paradox
What prophecy do the witches give to Banquo? - correct answer his descendants will sit on the
throne
Malcolm is named "Prince of Cumberland." Why is this possibly problematic for Macbeth? - correct
answer it means that, as Prince and son of Duncan, Malcolm is next in line for the throne that
Macbeth wants which makes getting the throne even harder than Macbeth
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