WorksheetsQ: Macbeth Act 5
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 34mins
In Act 5, scene 1, what does the gentlewoman say that Lady Macbeth keeps with her at all times?
Duncan’s sheets
Macbeth's daggers
Light
Macbeth's letter
In Act 5, scene 1, what does the Gentlewoman report that Lady Macbeth does in her sleep?
Write a letter
Look for something
Open someone's letters
Receives messages from Macbeth
What is the main message of Macbeth in Act 5, scene 1, which includes Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene?
Illness comes to evil people.
A guilty conscience is not easily mended.
Wives should be forgiven for their husbands’ misdeeds.
One is doomed to relive evil deeds.
In Act 5, scene 1, Lady Macbeth repeatedly tries to wash her hands of this, though the doctor and gentlewoman see nothing...
Bits of wax from her candle
Spots of blood on her hands
Spots of her own blood
Ink stains from a letter
In Act 5, scene 3, why is Macbeth unconcerned about the thanes who leave him to fight with Malcolm?
These thanes are all born of women.
Macbeth only wants to fight with Macduff.
The prophecies make Macbeth fearless in battle.
Macbeth wants to fight only with loyal soldiers.
In Act 5, scene 3, Macbeth asks the doctor to "cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health..."
How is this an example of dramatic irony? (Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters in the play don't know.)
Macbeth has already given up hope of redeeming Scotland.
The Doctor has already told Macbeth he is powerless to help.
The Doctor now knows that Lady Macbeth's illness is connected to Macbeth's guilt.
Malcolm's forces are about to cure Scotland of its disease, which is Macbeth.
In Act 5, scene 4, Malcolm instructs the soldiers to do what action on the way to Macbeth's castle?
Why does Macbeth decide to go outside the castle and fight in In Act 5, scene 5?
He believes he is in danger because Birnam Wood is moving.
Lady Macbeth's illness has given Macbeth a new reason to live.
The Doctor says that the only way to cure his soul is to fight in the field.
His servants who are helping him dress convince him it is a good plan.
In Act 5, scene 6, what does Malcolm’s command of the invading forces show?
He wants to leave Macduff free to take revenge.
He hates Macbeth the most of all the thanes.
He wants to fulfill his role as the true leader of Scotland.
He knows the land around Dunsinane well.
In Act 5, scene 7, what is Siward's main concern about the death of son, Young Siward?
Whether or not his son died facing his enemy and fighting
That the bell rings to properly honor his son's death
How many other sons he may lose to the war
That someone takes revenge on Macbeth
In Act 5, scene 8, How does Macbeth know that Macduff will be the one who kills him?
Macduff needs to avenge the deaths of his family.
Macduff says he was removed, not born, from his mother.
Macbeth decides the apparitions lied to him.
Macbeth finally wishes his life to be over.
What is Malcolm’s goal at the end of the play once he is hailed as King of Scotland?
To make his thanes into earls as a reward for them
To ensure that Lady Macbeth is executed as well
To prepare a proper funeral for young Siward
To demand that all thanes declare loyalty to him
In the last scene, what does Macduff come into the room carrying?
His sword
Macbeth's head
The crown
Young Siward's body
Until the very end, Macbeth believes that...
The witches’ predictions will save his life
His suffering people will support him
He will somehow flee from all enemies
His heirs will rule Scotland
Through most of Act 5, Macbeth tries to reassure himself that Malcolm and Macduff are not a threat to him because they...
Are far away in England
Do not have the military power that he has
Have fled because of fear
Are both “of woman born”
WHO SAID,
“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
King Duncan
WHO SAID,
“I bear a charmed life.”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Macduff
WHO SAID,
“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Witch
WHO SAID,
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Witch
WHO SAID,
“Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Macduff
What was meant by the following lines:
“Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”?
Life is short and meaningless.
All the world is a stage, and we are merely players, performers and portrayers.
Life is precious because, like a candle, it lasts a short time.
We all get 15 minutes of fame, more or less, just like Andy Warhol once said.
WHO SAID,
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.”
Macbeth
Macduff
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
WHO SAID,
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macduff
Witch
WHO SAID,
"Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear."
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Macduff
Banquo
WHO SAID,
"We've scorched the snake, not killed it."
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Macduff
Lady Macduff
WHO SAID,
"...and I fear thou play'dst most folly for it."
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Macduff
WHO SAID,
"Tyrant, show thy face! If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still."
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Macduff
WHO SAID,
"Go to, go to. You have known what you should not."
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Doctor
WHO SAID,
"Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him.."
Macbeth
Siward
Malcolm
Donalbain
