This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which good quality does Macbeth say in Scene 1 he most fears in Banquo? A) Honesty in leadership. B) Wise courage. C) Physical strength. D) Loyalty to friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wise courage. 2. When Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode' was first published in 1802, it had only? A) Stanzas I to VII. B) Stanzas I to IV. C) Stanzas I toV. D) Stanzas I to VI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas I toV. 3. Which of the following plagued Macbeth during the murder A) He heard bells signaling Duncan's death. B) He could not say "amen" to end a prayer. C) He heard voices that said "Macbeth doth murder sleep". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. W.B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for literature in the year? A) 1938. B) 1925. C) 1932. D) 1923. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1923. 5. Queen of the witches; directs all of the supernatural occurrences A) Lady Macbeth. B) Hecate. C) The Three Witches. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hecate. 6. The second vision tells Macbeth he cannot be defeated by: A) Any man. B) A stranger. C) Anyone born from a woman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anyone born from a woman. 7. Define Soliloquy A) When a character talks to their friend. B) When the characters reveal their inner thoughts and speak/think out loud. C) A clue to future events. D) Apart of a tragic flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When the characters reveal their inner thoughts and speak/think out loud. 8. When Macbeth acts strangely at the banquet, what excuse does Lady Macbeth give? A) He has epilepsy. B) He has acted this way since he was young. C) He is seeing hallucinations. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has acted this way since he was young. 9. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner? A) The Two Paths. B) The Seven Lamps of Architecture. C) The Stones of Venice. D) Modem Painters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modem Painters. 10. In Act IV, Macbeth visits the witches because he thinks that ..... A) They can turn back the hands of time. B) By killing them, he can escape his fate. C) They can rid him of Banquo's ghost. D) Their evil doings can help him maintain his power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Their evil doings can help him maintain his power. 11. Several things are out of place in the natural world:An example of this is ..... A) Duncan's horses eating each other. B) A falcon being killed by mousing owl. C) None of these. D) Both of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both of these. 12. What word does Malcolm use to describe Macbeth? A) King. B) Butcher. C) Lion. D) Traitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Butcher. 13. Who is believed to have bribed the guards? A) Malcolm and Donalbain. B) Macduff and Lennox. C) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. D) Ross and Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcolm and Donalbain. 14. When Macbeth receives his new title, Banquo reacts with ..... A) Jealousy. B) Indifference. C) Concern. D) Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concern. 15. As Lady Macbeth awaits Macbeth at the beginning of scene 2, she is feeling A) Uncertain. B) Ambitious. C) Convinced of failure. D) Jumpy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambitious. 16. Who says "A little water clears us of this deed" ? A) King Duncan. B) Malcom. C) Macbeth. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lady Macbeth. 17. Who does King Duncan name the new Thane of Cawdor at the start? A) Duncan. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Thane of Cawdor. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth. 18. What is Banquo's son's name? A) Angus. B) Lennox. C) Ross. D) Fleance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fleance. 19. What title did the witches give Macbeth? A) Thane of Glamis. B) Thane of Cawdor. C) King hereafter. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. In which country is Macbeth set? A) Spain. B) Denmark. C) Scotland. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scotland. 21. How did Macbeth's attitude change during his fight with Macduff? A) He became more confident of himself. B) He became afraid and surrendered. C) His confidence faltered, but he kept on fighting. D) He became depressed and killed himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His confidence faltered, but he kept on fighting. 22. Why won't Macbeth return the daggers to the servants? A) He cannot bear to look again at what he has done. B) He can't bear the idea of committing another evil act. C) He is afraid that someone will hear him. D) He is exhausted from the deed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He cannot bear to look again at what he has done. 23. In Act IV, Macduff wants to go to war against Macbeth because he A) Considers Macbeth a tyrant. B) Fears the witches' wrath if he fails to fulfill the prophecy. C) Wants the kingdom for himself. D) Wants to show his wife that he is brave. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Considers Macbeth a tyrant. 24. Why has Macduff gone to England? A) To escape Macbeth's tryanny. B) To interrogate Malcom about about the death of Duncan. C) He wants an army to fight for a rebellion to overthrow Macbeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants an army to fight for a rebellion to overthrow Macbeth. 25. Of kerns and gallowglasses is another way of saying ..... A) A battlefield. B) An execution. C) Mercenary soldiers. D) Cheap art. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mercenary soldiers. 26. What does Lady Macbeth think about her husband? A) That his is patriotic. B) That he is too caring. C) That he is a traitor. D) That he is boring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That he is a traitor. 27. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with? A) William Collins. B) Darcy. C) Charles Bingley. D) Wickham. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wickham. 28. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S. Eliot, is 'artistic failure'? A) Hamlet. B) Twelfth Night. C) Henry IV, Pt I. D) The Tempest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 29. The quote "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" supports the theme A) Opposites mean the same thing. B) All good people are actually evil. C) Listening to witches is a great idea. D) Nothing is as it appears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nothing is as it appears. 30. Macbeth's lieutenant A) Seyton. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Captain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seyton. 31. In the beginning, The Three Witches are introduced ..... A) In a warm, dry house. B) Upon a heath when there is thunder and lightning. C) At Macbeth's house. D) In a desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Upon a heath when there is thunder and lightning. 32. What does the first apparition foretell? A) Beware Macduff. B) No one born of woman can harm Macbeth. C) Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam Wood move to Dunsiname. D) Banquo's ancestors kings for many generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beware Macduff. 33. Carlyle's work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of? A) Seven lectures. B) Six lectures. C) Four lectures. D) Five lectures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Five lectures. 34. Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement? A) Robert Browning. B) E.B. Pusey. C) J. H. Newman. D) John Keble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E.B. Pusey. 35. Who is Macbeth married to? A) Banquo. B) Lady Macbeth. C) King Duncan. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 36. "But this place is too cold for hell." A) Macbeth. B) Hecate. C) Porter. D) The witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Porter. 37. Macbeth's actions on the battlefield show him to be all of the following EXCEPT A) Loyal. B) Capable of great violence. C) Superstitious. D) Brave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Superstitious. 38. Why does Macbeth say he can't kill Banquo himself? A) He has many friends who also want to kill Banquo. B) He doesn't want to risk his and Banquo's friends finding out. C) He knows Banquo is a better fighter than he is. D) He knows he won't have the courage to do it himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He doesn't want to risk his and Banquo's friends finding out. 39. Macbeth starts ranting again following the murder. He uses a metaphor to describe what he has done. Finish the quote:"Macbeth does murder ..... " A) His King. B) Duncan. C) God. D) Sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sleep. 40. Macbeth's coronation where he crowned king takes place at A) Iona. B) Inverness. C) Scone. D) Forres. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scone. 41. Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare? A) Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida. B) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus. C) King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice. D) Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus. 42. For which of the following reasons did Shakespeare probably choose to write The Tragedy of Macbeth in blank verse? A) To create a rhythmic effect. B) To create an effect of natural speech. C) To contrast with other metrical patterns. D) To depart from conventional iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To create an effect of natural speech. 43. In which year Globe theater got fire and destroyed? A) 1612. B) 1610. C) 1611. D) 1613. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1613. 44. What does Malcolm tell his men to carry as they march on Macbeth's castle? A) Their swords and shields. B) Courage in their hearts. C) The wounded. D) A branch to use as camouflage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A branch to use as camouflage. 45. The Porter scene serves the purpose of A) Providing comic relief for the audience. B) Providing a reasonable length of time for Macbeth and his wife to get into bed. C) Providing a first view of Macduff as a foil for Macbeth. D) Wait, who's the Porter?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Providing comic relief for the audience. 46. As a result of these new apparitions from the witches, who does Macbeth decide to kill? A) Macduff. B) Banquo. C) Malcolm. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 47. What is the central idea of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II? A) Ambition leads to madness. B) Tragedy befalls even honest men. C) A murderer must live with his conscience. D) Crime does not pay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A murderer must live with his conscience. 48. The term 'the Palliser Novels' is used to describe the political novels of? A) B.Disraeli. B) Charles Dickens. C) Anthony Trollope. D) W. H. White. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B.Disraeli. 49. How does Lady Macbeth instruct her husband to behave around their guests? A) Graciously. B) As their servant. C) Indifferently. D) As if he were already king. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graciously. 50. What does Macbeth ask Seton to do before the battle? A) Send a message to Malcolm. B) Prepare the armor and weapons. C) Slaughter those who are fleeing. D) Rally the troops and hang those who are showing fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rally the troops and hang those who are showing fear. 51. What best characterizes Macbeth's response to Lady Macbeth's death? A) He prays for God to help his wife's soul. B) He blames Macduff. C) He appears to be unconcerned. D) He sobs uncontrollably. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He appears to be unconcerned. 52. Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost because he was: A) Tricked by the thanes. B) Plagued by guilt. C) Drunk. D) Poisoned by Fleance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plagued by guilt. 53. When Malcolm and Donalbain disappear from Inverness, people assume that they A) Have been murdered. B) Were involved in Duncan's death. C) Are attempting to avoid danger. D) Are spreading news of upcoming war throughout Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were involved in Duncan's death. 54. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry? A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. B) William Shakespeare. C) Milton. D) Earl of Surrey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earl of Surrey. 55. What word best describes Macbeth's character throughout Act 5 but especially in Scene 3? A) Calm. B) Humble. C) Passive. D) Overconfident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overconfident. 56. Why does Macbeth avoid Macduff? A) He is afraid of him as he has a fierce reputation. B) He is too busy trying to find Malcolm to fight others. C) Because he feels he has enough Macduff blood on his hands already. D) He doesn't; he's trying to find him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because he feels he has enough Macduff blood on his hands already. 57. In Act II Scene 3, Lennox tells Macbeth that "The night has been unruly." What is this an example of? A) Verbal Irony. B) A pun. C) Foreshadowing. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dramatic Irony. 58. What news does Ross bring to Macbeth in Act I? A) Macbeth now holds the title of the Thane of Cawdor. B) The army has just lost the battle with the Norwegians. C) Lady Macbeth has had a son. D) The Thane of Glamis has been killed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth now holds the title of the Thane of Cawdor. 59. Desdemona was killed by : A) Iago. B) Othello. C) Casio. D) Brabantio. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Othello. 60. ..... involves a reversal of fortune, suffering and (usually) death. A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) History. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 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