Macbeth Study Questions
Act 5 Scene 1
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. What does the gentlewoman report to the doctor that she has seen?
2. Why doesn’t the gentlewoman want to report what she has heard the sleepwalker
say?
3. How and why does Lady Macbeth have a candle with her while she is
sleepwalking?
4. What action is the sleeping Lady Macbeth doing?
5. What does Lady Macbeth mean by, “Out, damned spot!”?
6. Why is the subject of Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking speech ironic?
7. What does the doctor mean by, “Go to, go to! You have known what you should
not”?
8. What does Lady Macbeth seem to be reliving by the end of her sleepwalking
scene?
9. Explain what the doctor means in lines 67-75?