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As you read Macbeth, answer the following questions. Your answers do not need to be
novels or even complete sentences, but they do need to be specific.
Scene i
1. What is Macbeth insinuating about Malcolm and Donalbain in lines 33-36? What is the meaning
of parricide?
4. Why does Macbeth have this lengthy conversation with the murderers? In other words, what is he
trying to find out about these men?
Scene ii
7. What do you think are Macbeth’s reasons for not telling Lacy Macbeth about his plans to murder
Banquo?
Scene iii
8. What is the significance of the light? Why are Banquo and Fleance walking in the dark?
Scene iv
10. How are the men reacting to Macbeth? Who can see Banquo’s ghost?
12. What does Macbeth mean when he says in line 176 “We are yet but young in deed”?
Scene v
13. Who is Hecate? How does she react to the weird sisters’ interactions with Macbeth?
Scene vi
14. Explain at least two examples of the sarcasm in Lennox’s speech towards Macbeth.