1. What is the name of the original Thane of Cawdor?

2. According to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth should look more like an “innocent …what?”

3. What is Duncan’s “tragic flaw?”

4. According to Lady Macbeth, what is her husband’s tragic flaw/weakness?

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

6. Who says “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, only to betray us in deepest consequence?”

7. What’s one thing Lady Macbeth had to do in order to go through with her own plan of killing King Duncan?

8. What does Lady Macbeth say will “clear them of this deed?”

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

10. By the end of Act II, who is guilty of plotting the murder of King Duncan?

11. By the end of Act II, who is guilty of murdering King Duncan?

12. Does Lady Macbeth really faint in Act II?

13. Who does Macbeth kill in Act II besides King Duncan?

14. Which character does not attend Macbeth’s coronation ceremony and banquet?

15. Which character functions as comic relief in this play, specifically in Act II?

16. Who discovers King Duncan’s dead body?

17. What is one reason Macbeth gives the hired murderers for why they should want to kill Banquo?

18. Do Banquo and Fleance both die in Act III?

19. Who does Macbeth neglect to inform about Banquo’s murder?

20. What is one reason Lady Macbeth and Macbeth give the dinner guests for why Macbeth is acting so strangely?

21. What does Macbeth thinks he sees sitting in his seat at his own coronation dinner party?

22. What are the three main types of Shakespeare plays?

23. How many acts are in all Shakespeare plays?

24. What specific type of verse does Shakespeare utilize for most of his plays’ heroes?

25. Where was Shakespeare born and buried?

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

27. What is another name for the English Renaissance period?

28. Which famous philosopher developed six basic characteristics for all tragic heroes in the major literary genre, drama?