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🗡️ Macbeth – GCSE
English · GCSE — practise key plot points, quotations, characters, themes and context in Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Questions
When the witches first meet Macbeth, which title that he already holds do they greet him with?
Prince of Cumberland
Thane of Cawdor
King hereafter
Thane of Glamis
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What do the witches prophesy for Banquo?
He will be Thane of Cawdor
His descendants will be kings
He will kill Macbeth in battle
He will become king himself
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Who says “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” while sleepwalking?
Macbeth
The Gentlewoman
Lady Macduff
Lady Macbeth
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Where is King Duncan murdered?
Dunsinane castle
The coronation site at Scone
The royal palace at Forres
Macbeth’s castle at Inverness
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“Look like th’ innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.” Who says this, and to whom?
Macbeth to the murderers
The witches to Macbeth
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
Macbeth to Banquo
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Whose ghost appears to Macbeth at the banquet, sitting in his seat?
Lady Macduff’s ghost
Fleance’s ghost
Duncan’s ghost
Banquo’s ghost
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The apparitions say “none of woman born” shall harm Macbeth. Why can Macduff still defeat him?
He is of royal blood
He was raised in England
He is protected by the witches
He was born by Caesarean section
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Why might Shakespeare have presented Banquo as loyal and honourable?
Banquo was Shakespeare’s own ancestor
Banquo founded the city of London
James I was believed to descend from him
Elizabeth I admired Banquo
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King James I wrote a book about witchcraft, which helps explain the play’s witches. What is its title?
Basilikon Doron
Malleus Maleficarum
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Daemonologie
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The Porter jokes about an “equivocator” who could not equivocate to heaven. Which event is this usually linked to?
The Union of the Crowns
The Essex Rebellion
The Spanish Armada
The Gunpowder Plot
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