Question

1. What do the witches predict will happen to Macbeth and Banquo’s family at the beginning of the play?

Answer 1

1. They predict Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and eventually the king. They predict that Banquo will be "lesser than Macbeth, and greater, Not so happy, and yet happier" and that his descendants will be kings although he will not be one.

2. True

3. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill King Duncan.

4. Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance to prevent this from happening.

5. The ghost of Banquo

6. He sits in his usual place at the table.

7. His wife and son have been killed.

8. Macduff has gone to England to ask King Edward for help to restore Scotland to how it was before Macbeth became king.

9. Macbeth thinks he is invincible because trees can't march. However he misunderstands this apparition as it is a symbol of Malcom's attack. He thinks this means no one can harm him.

11. True

13. To "be born" meant to be delivered in a normal vaginal delivery. ... So if Macduff was cut from his dead mother's body, he was not born of a woman at all, but was "untimely ripped."

14. Malcolm III

15. Malcolm takes over as king