Macbeth Test

When a character speaks only to himself alone on the stage

• Aside
• Sleep talking
• Soliloquy 
• Speech

When a character speaks to himself only when others are on stage

• Aside
• Sleep talking
• Soliloquy 
• Speech

Before we actually see Macbeth, we learn that is a/an 

• traitor
• king
• brave warrior
• all of these

Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to unsex her because

• she was unable to conceive a child
• she wanted to embody the male-oriented tendencies toward cruelty and violence
• traditional women’s roles required her to refrain from ordering her husband around
• she needed to be free from lustful thoughts in order to carry out her plan.

“Valiant cousin!  Worthy gentleman” is the ironic acknowledgment of Duncan for

• Malcom
• Macbeth
• Macduff
• Lennox

The Porter scene (after the killing of Duncan but before they find his body) serves the purpose of: 

• providing comic relief for the audience
• providing a reasonable length of time for Macbeth and his wife to get into bed
• providing a first view of Macduff as a foil for Macbeth
• wait, who's the Porter?

A character who is destroyed by a tragic flaw

• Tragic Hero

• Foreshadowing

• Characterization

• Irony

When the author hints about the future

• Characterization

• Metaphor

• Foreshadowing

• Dramatic Irony

How we understand the traits and development of a character

• Metaphor

• Characterization

• Foreshadowing

• Aside

When the witches give Macbeth his prophecy, this is a form of dramatic irony because…

• Something happens that was unexpected, “The thane of Cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman” 

• Ross says something sarcastic, “He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor…hail most worthy thane” 

• The witches know something that Macbeth does not, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”

• The audience knows that he is getting this title, but Macbeth does not, “Go pronounce [the thane of Cawdor’s] present death, and with is former title greet Macbeth”