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In a novel titled for a location in this play, the billionaire Robert Lemoine uses the poison 1080 to kill members of a gardening collective. In this play, a member of a group threatens to go to Aleppo to get revenge on a sailor’s wife. (10[1])This play’s title character says “She should have died hereafter” (10[1])after (10[1])learning of the death of a woman who thinks that character is too full of “the milk of human kindness.” In this play, a character describes life as “a tale / Told by an idiot” in a soliloquy before he notices that a forest appears to be moving. This play’s protagonist hears a prophecy about a time when “Birnam Wood… shall come against him” from the Weird Sisters. For 10 points, name this tragedy by Shakespeare about the killer of King Duncan, set in Scotland. ■END■

ANSWER: Macbeth [or The Tragedy of Macbeth] (The novel in the first line is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.)
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Katherine LeiStanford LBerkeley A4410
Michal GerasimiukStanford MStanford A5410
Ryan SunBerkeley BBerkeley C5510

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