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Macbeth and The Witches Questions & Answers
Question 1: Why is Banquo not sure if the witches are women?
Answer: Banquo is not sure if the witches are women because they have beards like men.
Question 2: How do the witches greet Macbeth after the battle?
Answer: The witches greet Macbeth as the Thane of Glamis, the Thane of Cawdor and the future king Of Scotland.
Question 3: Why did the Thane of Cawdor lose his title? What had happened to him?
Answer: The Thane of Cawdor lost his title because he rebelled against the king. His title was taken away from him and he was awaiting death as punishment for his deeds.
Question 4: What do the witches tell Banquo?
Answer: The witches told Banquo that his children will kings. The witches also foretell that he will be greater and happier than Macbeth.
Question 5: Which sentences tell us that Macbeth is fearful yet secretly pleased about the third prophecy? List them.
Answer: The sentences that tell us that Macbeth is fearful yet secretly pleased about the third prophecy are:
- Glamis, and now Thane of Cawdor but the best is yet to come!
- The crowing promise, which is yet to fulfilled, concerns the matter of kingship!
Question 6: Read the lines and answer the questions:
1. “Is it possible for such things to happen?
Or have been eaten some poisonous root
That destroys one’s reason?”
(a) Who says these lines?
Answer: Banquo says these lines.
(b) What is the speaker referring to?
Answer: The speaker is referring to the witches prophecies and their vanishing into thin air suddenly.
(c) Why does the speaker feel the that he might have lost his reason?
Answer: The speaker feels that he might have lost his reason because it should not be possible for people to just vanish into thin air.
2. “Two truths have been told, but that is only the beginning,
The crowning promise, which is yet to be fulfilled.
Concerns the matter of kingship!”
(a) Who says these lines?
Answer: The speaker of these lines is Macbeth.
(b) What are the ‘two truths’ is speaker is referring to?
Answer: The two truths are that Macbeth is now the Thane of Cawdor and Glamis.
(c) What is the crowning promise?
Answer: The crowning promise is the third prophecy that says Macbeth would be the future king of Scotland.
Question 7: Why does Macbeth think it is not possible for him to be the Thane of Cawdor?
Answer: Macbeth thinks it is not possible for him to be the Thane of Cawdor because the Thane of Cawdor is still alive and a new thane is usually appointed only when the old one is dead.
Question 8: How did the king react on hearing Macbeth’s brave deeds in the battlefield?
Answer: The king reacted with joy on hearing about Macbeth’s brave deeds in the battlefield and rewarded him for his deeds by making him the Thane of Cawdor.
Question 9: How do the evil powers win our trust, according to Banquo?
Answer: According to Banquo, the evil powers win our trust easily by making small promises which they keep up only to betray us alter in matters of greater importance.
Question 10: Why does Macbeth feel that he is being helped by some invisible powers?
Answer: Macbeth feels that he is being helped by some invisible powers because of the prophecies made by the witches. Two prophecies made by the witches have come true in quick succession and so Macbeth feels that it is only a matter of time before the final and the third prophecy also came true.
Question 11: Why does Macbeth fear the fulfillment of the third prophecy?
Answer: Macbeth fears the fulfilment of the third prophecy because in order to become the next king of Scotland, the current king and his heirs must be killed.
Question 12: How does Banquo react to the prophecies? What does this say about him?
Answer: Banquo is much wiser and reacts to the two prophecies with caution. He feels that it would be disastrous to trust the words of the witches blindly. This shows that he is a cautious and trustworthy person who does not care much for ambition.
So, these were Macbeth and The Witches Questions & Answers.