What is the name of the

original Thane of Cawdor?

According to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth should look more

like an “innocent …what?”

What is Duncan’s “tragic

flaw?”

According to Lady Macbeth, what is

her husband’s tragic flaw/weakness?

According to Macbeth, what is his tragic flaw? Act I, scene vii

Who says “The instruments of darkness

tell us truths, only to betray us in deepest

consequence?”

What’s one thing Lady Macbeth had to do in order to go through

with her own plan of killing King Duncan?

What does Lady Macbeth say will

“clear them of this deed?”

What literary allusion is used by Macbeth to describe his guilt after killing King Duncan?

By the end of Act II, who is guilty of

plotting the murder of King Duncan?

By the end of Act II, who is guilty of murdering King

Duncan?

Does Lady Macbeth really faint in Act II?

Who does Macbeth kill in Act

II besides King Duncan?

Which character does not attend Macbeth’s coronation ceremony

and banquet?

Which character functions as comic relief in this play,

specifically in Act II?

Who discovers King Duncan’s

dead body?

What is one reason Macbeth gives the

hired murderers for why they should want

to kill Banquo?

Do Banquo and Fleance both die

in Act III?

Who does Macbeth neglect to inform about Banquo’s

murder?

What is one reason Lady Macbeth and Macbeth give the

dinner guests for why Macbeth is acting so

strangely?

What does Macbeth thinks he sees sitting in his seat at his own

coronation dinner party?

What are the three main types of Shakespeare

plays?

How many acts are in all

Shakespeare plays?

What specific type of verse does

Shakespeare utilize for most of his plays’ heroes?

Where was Shakespeare born

and buried?

Name one difference between the theater of today and Shakespeare’s

time.

What is another name for the

English Renaissance period?

Which famous philosopher developed six basic characteristics for all tragic heroes in

the major literary genre, drama?