Macbeth Act 1 Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Play

Study Notes

A Chalice is a cup, especially a goblet.
To Chastise means to punish or reprimand.
Compunctious means feeling regret or remorse.
Dwindle means to decrease or become smaller.
A Harbinger is a person or thing that signals the approach of something.
To Implore means to beg urgently or piteously for help or mercy.
Ingratitude means unthankfulness or lack of appreciation.
Interim refers to an intervening time or interval.
Mettle means courage and fortitude; strength of character.
A Minion is a servant, follower, or subordinate of a person in power.
To Plight means to promise or pledge something.
Prophetic means relating to or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
To Surmise means to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; to guess.
Trifles means things of little value or importance.
Withered means dried up or shriveled.

The bleeding Captain tells King Duncan that Macbeth and Banquo fought bravely and that the Thane of Cawdor is a traitor.
The first witch is upset because a sailor's wife wouldn't share her chestnuts.
The witches give Macbeth three prophecies: he will be Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King of Scotland.
The witches' prophecy for Banquo is that his children will become Kings.
Macbeth receives the news that he has become Thane of Cawdor because the original Thane was executed for treason.
Duncan names his son, Malcolm, as his successor to the throne.
Lady Macbeth means that she wants to be rid of her human feelings of compassion and fear to do violent things.
Lady Macbeth is worried that Macbeth lacks the cruelty necessary to make himself King.
Duncan is spending the night at Macbeth's castle at the end of Act I.
Duncan uses the metaphor of comparing Macbeth to a plant.
Macbeth's plan to murder Duncan is to get his guards drunk while they are sleeping, then use their daggers to stab Duncan and frame them.
Macbeth states, "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes"?