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Macbeth: Act 4 Questions
These questions help you stay on track with the plot as well as build your reading
comprehension.
Directions: Answer these questions on this sheet of paper.
Act IV, Scene I
1. What are the witches doing when this scene opens?
2. What is the refrain or chorus of their song?
3. How does Macbeth greet the witches?
4. What is the first apparition and what does it prophesy?
5. What is the second apparition and what does it prophesy?
6. What is the third apparition and what does it prophesy?
7. What is the last apparition?
8. How does Macbeth plan to protect himself from Macduff’s threat?
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Act IV, Scene II
1. How does Lady Macduff react when Ross tells her that Macduff has gone to
England?
2. Why does Lady Macduff tell her son that his father is dead?
3. What happens at the end of the scene?
Act IV, Scene III
1. How does Macduff feel about Scotland at the beginning of the scene?
2. How does Macduff characterize Macbeth?
3. How does Malcolm characterize himself initially in this scene?
4. Macduff tries to persuade Malcolm that he is fit to rule, but eventually Macduff
says what?
5. What does Malcolm say after Macduff’s outburst?
6. What has Old Siward done?
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7. What do we learn about the king of England?
8. How does Ross describe Scotland to Macduff?
9. What is Macduff’s reaction to the murder of his wife and children?
10. How does Malcolm respond to the news?
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