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Worksheets'Macbeth' Plot
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who is travelling with Macbeth when he first encounters the three sisters?
Macduff
Lennox
Banquo
Duncan
What is Macbeth Thane of at the start of the play?
Scotland
Glamis
Cawdor
Fife
What prophecy do the sisters give Banquo in Act 1?
That he will be made Thane of Cawdor
That his son will be made Thane of Cawdor
That his sons will be made princes
That his sons will be made kings
What ‘sign’ convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan?
An apparition of one of the Weird Sisters
A nightmare about one of the Weird Sisters
An apparition of a floating dagger
The ghost of his dead father visits him
What does Macbeth accidentally take with him after murdering the king?
The murder weapons
The king’s crown
The bible
The King’s bloody pillow
Which characters run away shortly after Duncan’s death?
Banquo and Fleance
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
Malcolm and Donalbain
Macduff and his family
What does Macbeth hire men to do?
Protect him from assassins
Kill Macduff and his family
Find the witches so he can talk to them again
Kill Banquo and his son
When he sees them the second time, what four things do the witches show Macbeth?
A head, a blood child, a crown and a serpent
An armed child, a bloody child, a crowned child with a tree in his hand, eight kings followed by Banquo’s ghost with a mirror
Armed head, visions, crowned child with a tree in his hand and a battlefield
An armed head, a bloody child, a crowned child with a tree in his hand, eight kings followed by Duncan's ghost with a mirror
Why does Macbeth have Macduff's family and servants killed?
Macduff is not loyal and Macbeth wants to kill his family as they could kill him
Macduff is not loyal to Macbeth, and Macbeth is angry
Macduff is angry with Macbeth and he is afraid
Macduff is not loyal and Macbeth is happy
Towards the end of the play, which words best describe Lady Macbeth's behaviour in this Act?
Confident, egotistical and boastful
Ambitious, power-driven and determined
Psychotic, unstable and melodramatic
Obsessive, paranoid and unhinged
Macbeth does not fear death at the hands of the rebels because he has...
Extensive battle experience
Faith in the witches' prophecies
Little reason to go on living
No awareness of the rebels' strength
In the last scene, Macbeth fights to the death because he...
is given no other choice
thinks that Macduff can be easily defeated
does not believe Macduff's claims about his birth
prefers an honourable defeat to a humiliating surrender
