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Macbeth Study Guide (Act IV)

The document is a study guide for Act IV of Macbeth containing 31 questions about various scenes and events. It asks questions about the witches' prophecies to Macbeth, his plans to kill more people, the killing of Lady Macduff and her son, Malcolm testing Macduff, and Ross informing Macduff of his family's death.

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Macbeth Study Guide (Act IV)

The document is a study guide for Act IV of Macbeth containing 31 questions about various scenes and events. It asks questions about the witches' prophecies to Macbeth, his plans to kill more people, the killing of Lady Macduff and her son, Malcolm testing Macduff, and Ross informing Macduff of his family's death.

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Macbeth Study Guide (Act IV)

1. What is the witches’ refrain? Have you ever encountered these words in another
context? (1.x)

2. What is the dramatic significance of the witches’ conjuring prior to Macbeth’s


entrance? What is the historical significance? (1.1-43)

3. What is Macbeth’s disposition when he approaches the witches? (1.x)

4. The witches invite Macbeth to speak to whom? (1.63-64)

5. What does the first apparition look like? What is its message? (1.69-74)

6. What does the second apparition look like? What is its message? (1.77-84)

7. What does the third apparition look like? What is its message? (1.90-98)

8. What question does Macbeth demand the witches answer? (1.105-111)

9. What final vision do the witches leave with Macbeth? What is its significance? (1.117-
129)

10. Speculate: Does Macbeth actually see the witches, or is it a hallucination? (1.x)

11. Macbeth concludes that “the very firstlings of [his] heart shall be/The firstlings of
[his] hand.” What does he mean by this? (1.148-149)

12. What does Macbeth plan to do as of the end of the scene? Why does he plan to do
this? (1.151-157)

13. What news does Ross bring Lady Macduff and how does she take the news? (2.x)

14. How does Lady Macduff preset the news to her son and how does he take the news?
(2.x)

15. What is the tone of Lady Macduff’s conversation with her son? What does this tell us
about their relationship? (2.x)

16. What message does the messenger bring? (2.61-69)

17. Speculate: Who sent the messenger? (2.x)

18. Who is killed at the end of scene 2? (2.x)

19. How has Macbeth changed his rationale for murder from Duncan to the Macduff
family? (2.x)
20.What is ironic about Malcolm’s initial words to Macduff? (3.8-17)

21. What concern about the future does Malcolm express? Is he sincere about this
concern? (3.38-50)

22. What character failing does Malcolm express first, and how does Macduff react?
(3.58-77)

23. What character failing does Malcolm express second, and how does Macduff react?
(3.78-92)

24. What character failing does Malcolm express third, and how does Macduff react?
(3.93-116)

25. What “test” is Malcolm giving Macduff? Does he pass? (3.x)

26. What arrangement has Malcolm made with Siward? (3.117-139)

27. Malcolm describes supernatural abilities possessed by his benefactor, King Edward.
What are these abilities? (3.149-161)

28.What shape is Scotland in, according to Ross’s description? (3.166-175)

29. What news does Ross bring to Macduff? (3.x)

30.How does Macduff react to this news? How does Malcolm believe he should react to
this news? (3.225-227)

31. How does this exchange reflect on themes of gender discussed earlier in the play?
(3.x)

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