This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Macbeth finds out Lady Macbeth is dead, he A) Says life is just a meaningless path to death. B) Kills the doctor who couldn't heal her. C) Kills himself. D) Refuses to believe it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Says life is just a meaningless path to death. 2. The witches told him his heirs would be kings A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banquo. 3. How many witches are there in Act 1? A) 4. B) 3. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 4. How does Lady Macbeth know that Duncan is coming to her castle? A) Macbeth includes the information in a letter. B) Macbeth tells her when he comes home. C) A messenger tells her that he is coming. D) She sees him while looking out the window. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A messenger tells her that he is coming. 5. "Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, /And fill me from the crown to the topful/ Of direst cruelty." A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macduff. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 6. Out out brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. A) Macbeth speaking to Lady Macbeth. B) A Macbeth soliloquy. C) Macbeth speaking to Seyton. D) The witches speaking to Macbeth and Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Macbeth soliloquy. 7. Who has left Scotland for England to seek Malcolm? A) Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) Macdonwald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 8. Which Witch was the first to call Macbeth the "Thane of Cawdor" ? A) The First Witch. B) The Second Witch. C) The Third Witch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Second Witch. 9. What mistake did Macbeth make with Duncan's murder? A) He forgot to wait until the guards were asleep. B) He forgot the leave the daggers with the guards. C) He went into Duncan's room too early. D) He refused to do it, and Lady Macbeth murder Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He forgot the leave the daggers with the guards. 10. Who called 'The Waste Land 'a music of ideas'? A) Allen Tate. B) J.C Ransom. C) I.A Richards. D) F. R Leavis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allen Tate. 11. What is weird about the murder scene? A) It was very dark and nothing could be seen. B) Banquo decides to walk to the palace instead of ride up on horse. C) The two murderers are surprised when a third murder shows up. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The two murderers are surprised when a third murder shows up. 12. What do Malcolm's men use as camouflage? A) Branches. B) Mud. C) Armor used by Macbeth's soldiers. D) Black paint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Branches. 13. Uneasy lies the head that.....( King Henry four, part two): A) Wears a crown. B) Wears a hat. C) Wears a wig. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wears a crown. 14. Who is the first soldier that Macbeth kills? A) Ross. B) Siward. C) Lennox. D) Young Siward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young Siward. 15. As Lady Macbeth waits for Macbeth to kill Duncan, she is feeling A) Confident. B) Morally uncertain. C) Convinced of failure. D) Jumpy and superstitious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confident. 16. What is Macbeth saying in his "tomorrow" speech? A) Life is full of ups and downs. B) Life is full of surprises. C) You only live once. D) Life is meaningless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Life is meaningless. 17. When Macduff receives news of his family's death, he says that he will fight like a man, but he also must what? A) Hide like a man. B) Run like a man. C) Feel it like a man. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Feel it like a man. 18. Macbeth is set in this country: A) England. B) Wales. C) Ireland. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scotland. 19. What does the sight of eight kings and Banquo mean? A) Fleance will soon die. B) Macbeth was successful at ending Banquo's line of descendants. C) Banquo's descendants would eventually be kings. D) Banquo is still alive and plotting to overthrow Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banquo's descendants would eventually be kings. 20. Which best describes the mood of the dagger scene? A) Celebratory and excited. B) Curious and light-hearted. C) Calm and serene. D) Dark and horrific. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dark and horrific. 21. The three titles the Three Witches first greet Macbeth with are ..... A) Than of Fife, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor. B) Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Fife. C) Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, future King. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, future King. 22. Who becomes the rightful king of Scotland? A) Macbeth. B) Malcom. C) Macduff. D) Macdonwald. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malcom. 23. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics? A) Wordsworth. B) Byron. C) Shelley. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 24. The title bestowed on Malcolm was ..... A) Prince of Wales. B) Duke of Cambridge. C) Prince of Cumberland. D) Prince of Caledonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prince of Cumberland. 25. The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the? A) Puritan movement. B) Neo-classical age. C) Romantic revival. D) Metaphysical school. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic revival. 26. Who kills Macbeth? A) Donalbain. B) Macduff. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 27. Success in defeating an enemy A) Win. B) Conquest. C) Control. D) Victory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Victory. 28. "A little water clears of us this deed." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) Porter. D) The servants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 29. In the Act II soliloquy, what does Macbeth see? A) Duncan's body. B) A floating dagger. C) Blood on his hands. D) Nothing but darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A floating dagger. 30. A voice cries out that Macbeth has murdered what? A) Duncan. B) Happiness. C) Scotland. D) Sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sleep. 31. What do Malcolm and Donalbain NOT agree to do after learning of their father's murder? A) Leave Scotland. B) Go to separate countries. C) Kill Macbeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kill Macbeth. 32. Tracts for the Times relates to? A) The Pre-Raphaelite Movement. B) The Oxford Movement. C) The Symbolist Movement. D) The Romantic Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Oxford Movement. 33. Why was Macduff "able" to defeat Macbeth? A) He was born via c-section. B) He was adopted. C) The witches had cast a spell on him. D) He had a sharper sword than Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was born via c-section. 34. Shakespeare's father died in: A) 1602. B) 1601. C) 1603. D) 1600. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1601. 35. Macbeth's evil deeds have a ..... effect on Scotland. A) Judicious. B) Sundry. C) Pernicious. D) Credulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pernicious. 36. There are 3 apparitions at the boiling cauldron, which is not one of them? A) A floating head with armor. B) A Crowned child holding a tree. C) A blood covered child. D) Fleance marching towards Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fleance marching towards Dunsinane. 37. Who jokes that he works at "hell's gate? " A) Macduff. B) Malcolm. C) Porter. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Porter. 38. Who do the witches meet with the morning after Banquo's murder? A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) Fleance. D) Hecate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hecate. 39. Which nation's army invades Scotland at the end of the play? A) Norway. B) France. C) England. D) Finland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 40. When the Three Witches meet Macbeth, who is there with him? A) King Duncan. B) Captain. C) Banquo. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banquo. 41. Who is helping Macduff after he leaves to go to England? A) Lennox. B) Ross. C) Fleance. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ross. 42. What would we consider unusual about the actors in Shakespeare's plays? A) They were all women. B) They were all men. C) They were all males-boys to men. D) Girls played young boy parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were all males-boys to men. 43. What disturbance of the natural order does the Old Man say he has heard about? A) Fires staring out of nowhere. B) The earthquake. C) Duncan's horses eating each other. D) The eclipse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan's horses eating each other. 44. How was Macduff born? A) Naturally. B) Alien. C) Caesarean Section. D) Fell out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caesarean Section. 45. Why does Lady Macbeth drug the servants in Scene 2? A) She does not want their help in killing King Duncan. B) She wants them dead so they will not tell what they saw. C) She wants to stop them from killing King Duncan. D) She wants them to sleep while they kill King Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wants them to sleep while they kill King Duncan. 46. What does Macduff promise that he is not when speaking to Malcolm? A) A coward. B) A traitor. C) A murderer. D) A spy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A traitor. 47. Which lord tries to sound out his friends about Macbeth's behaviour and where Macduff has gone? A) Mentieth. B) Angus. C) Lennox. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lennox. 48. Why did Shakespeare write Macbeth? A) For Queen Elizabeth of England. B) For King James VI of Scotland. C) For King James I of England. D) For Mary Queen of Scots. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For King James I of England. 49. Who is commonly known as 'Pip' in Great Expectations? A) Philip Pip. B) Philips Pirip. C) Philip Pirrip. D) Filip Pirip. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philip Pip. 50. Lady Macbeth says she keeps all promises she makes, and says she would even kill her ..... if she had vowed to do so. A) Mother. B) Husband. C) Sister. D) Child. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sister. 51. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." The above lines have been taken from? A) The Waste Land. B) Tintern Abbey. C) The Second Coming. D) Prayer for My Daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Second Coming. 52. How does Lady Macbeth feel about how Macbeth carried out the murder? A) She is ashamed by how scared he acts throughout the ordeal. B) She is indifferent. C) She is revolted that someone she loves could commit cold-blooded murder. D) She is filled with pride over his deed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is ashamed by how scared he acts throughout the ordeal. 53. Which of the following is Golding's first novel? A) Lord of the Flies. B) Pyramid. C) The Inheritors. D) Pincher Martin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord of the Flies. 54. Why do the two murderers agree to carry out Macbeth's plan in Scene 1? A) Macbeth has promised that they will rule. B) They think they will kill Duncan's murderer. C) Difficult lives have made them violent men. D) They want to impress Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Difficult lives have made them violent men. 55. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in "Great Expectations" ? A) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom. B) She was unwilling to marry. C) She was poor. D) She was arrogant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was arrogant. 56. "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in: A) 1606. B) 1608. C) 1609. D) 1607. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1606. 57. What is Macbeth's downfall? A) Love. B) Ambition. C) Money. D) Anger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambition. 58. Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "Look like the innocent ....., but be the ..... under't." A) Soil beast. B) Child doormat. C) Flower serpent. D) Stone insects. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flower serpent. 59. Who is the porter pretending to let into "hell" ? A) People that Macbeth has invited to stay. B) Traitors to the king from across Scotland. C) Tradesmen who have cheated him before. D) People who have done wrong things in business. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People who have done wrong things in business. 60. Which apparition/prophecy comes true when Malcolm's army cuts down trees to hide their numbers? A) Macbeth will never be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to fight. B) Fear Macduff. C) Banquo's son is crowned the new king. D) No man borne of woman will harm Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth will never be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to fight. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books