This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Just before his death Macbeth A) Prayed that God would forgive him of all his sins. B) Realized that he had been trapped by the witches' riddles. C) Thanked the witches and his wife for making him king. D) Still believed that the witches had been honest and innocent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realized that he had been trapped by the witches' riddles. 2. What is the signal from Lady Macbeth to tell Macbeth it's time to kill Duncan? A) Bagpipes. B) Bells ring. C) Knocking. D) Bird signing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bells ring. 3. What is Duncan's greatest weakness? A) He's too unpleasant. B) He's too trusting. C) He's too greedy. D) He's too self-obsessed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He's too trusting. 4. What decision does Duncan regret? A) Ordering the execution of the Thane of Cawdor. B) Appointing Macbeth to his new position. C) Taking up arms in the first place. D) Getting married. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordering the execution of the Thane of Cawdor. 5. Keats's Endymion is dedicated to? A) Shakespeare. B) Leigh Hunt. C) Milton. D) Thomas Chatterton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leigh Hunt. 6. According to Lady Macbeth, she didn't kill Duncan herself because A) She wanted Macbeth to feel in control. B) She is not physically strong enough to overtake Duncan. C) Duncan reminded her of her sleeping father. D) She saw in a dream that Macbeth was fated to murder him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan reminded her of her sleeping father. 7. How does Macbeth die? A) He is attacked by a group of Macduff's soldiers. B) He "accidentally" falls on his own sword. C) Macduff beheads him (after killing him). D) One of his own soldiers mistakenly kills him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macduff beheads him (after killing him). 8. In Elizabethan theater, ..... was especially important because there were no elaborate special effects, lighting, or sets. A) Blank verse. B) Imagery. C) Stage makeup. D) Costuming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 9. Why does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth has a poor chance of achieving power? A) He is too loyal to King Duncan. B) He is not ruthless enough. C) He lacks sufficient ambition. D) He does not have the wit to devise a workable plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He lacks sufficient ambition. 10. Who says:Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air. A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) The 3 Witches. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The 3 Witches. 11. Who said it? "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." A) Malcolm. B) Macbeth. C) The witches. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The witches. 12. What are Banquo and Fleance doing when they are attacked? A) Hunting for dinner. B) Going home. C) Riding their horses. D) Leaving for England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Riding their horses. 13. What does Macbeth do to Mcdonwald in battle that makes King Duncan call him, "A worthy gentleman" A) Has tea and biscuits with Mcdonwald. B) Shoots Mcdonwald with a crossbow. C) Negotiates peace with Mcdonwald. D) Cuts Mcdonwald in half, then spikes his head outside the castle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuts Mcdonwald in half, then spikes his head outside the castle. 14. Which of the following is NOT revealed in the letter Lady Macbeth receives? A) That Macbeth has been appointed Thane of Cawdor. B) That Macbeth has ambitions to become king. C) The location of Donalbain and Malcolm. D) The witches' prophecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The location of Donalbain and Malcolm. 15. When Macbeth returns from killing Duncan, he makes the mistake of bringing A) An old letter. B) A bloody towel. C) The king's crown. D) Bloody daggers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bloody daggers. 16. Malcolm believes that Macbeth's ..... made him desire others' jewels, houses, and titles. A) Avarice. B) Credulousness. C) Judiciousness. D) Intemperance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avarice. 17. Who is crowned the king of Scotland at the end? A) Ross. B) Malcolm. C) Macduff. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malcolm. 18. ..... comes with Macduff to pick up the King and tells of strange things he's heard in the night. A) Lennox. B) Lady MacBeth. C) Banquo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lennox. 19. That Milton was of the Devil's party without knowing it, was said by? A) Johnson. B) Blake. C) Eliot. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blake. 20. What does Macduff reveal? A) He was born by caesarean section. B) He will be the next king of Scotland. C) He killed Lady Macbeth. D) He is the spawn of Hecate, who is not really a woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was born by caesarean section. 21. What color does Macbeth say he shall make the green sea turn if he was to stick his hands into it? A) Black. B) Blue. C) White. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red. 22. In Scene 2 ..... awards Macbeth with the title, Thane of Cawdor. A) Malcolm. B) Lennox. C) Ross. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duncan. 23. Why is Macbeth envious of the murdered King Duncan? A) Macbeth cannot sleep and King Duncan has eternal sleep. B) King Duncan is still alive and hiding in Cuba. C) Macbeth can sleep soundly while King Duncan cannot. D) King Duncan had more friends than Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth cannot sleep and King Duncan has eternal sleep. 24. Why is Macbeth not worried when he learns that 10, 000 English troops are headed his way? A) He is safe as long as he stays in his castle. B) He doesn't believe the servant. C) Macbeth's army is bigger. D) The witches make him overconfident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The witches make him overconfident. 25. What happened to the original Thane of Cawdor and why did he lose his title? A) He was a traitor and took the other side in the war. B) He died of natural causes. C) He was promoted. D) He married out of wedlock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was a traitor and took the other side in the war. 26. Macbeth will not return the daggers to the crime scene. Finish the quote:"I am ..... " A) Tired. B) Drunk. C) Afraid. D) Ashamed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afraid. 27. Name the speaker: "My hands are the same color as yours ..... but I'd be ashamed to have a heart as white as yours!" A) Banquo. B) Lady Macbeth. C) An old man. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 28. Which of the following play was written in 1601? A) King Lear. B) Othello. C) Hamlet. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 29. "Stars, hide your fires;/ Let not light see my black and deep desires." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 30. Why did the first witch want to kill the Sailor? A) His wife called her a witch. B) His wife didn't share her chestnuts. C) His wife killed a pig. D) She didn't want to kill the Sailor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His wife didn't share her chestnuts. 31. Why is Macbeth crowned king after Duncan is murdered and not Duncan's sons? A) Duncan has no children. B) Duncan had named Macbeth his heir. C) The witches told them to. D) Duncan's sons have run away and seem guilty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duncan's sons have run away and seem guilty. 32. The witches are sometimes referred to as the Weird Sisters. "Weird" comes from an Anglo-Saxon term, "wyrd" which means ..... A) Fate. B) Ugly. C) Mysterious. D) Strange. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fate. 33. Who is Macdonwald? A) A leader of England. B) He is the leader of Macbeth. C) A main character that chooses to be a rebel. D) He is the leader of the rebel forces, who are fighting against Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is the leader of the rebel forces, who are fighting against Scotland. 34. Complete the quotation: "Upon my head they placed a ..... crown. And put a ..... scepter in my gripe." A) Splendid wonderous. B) Fruitless barren. C) Scottish powerful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fruitless barren. 35. Why would Lady Macbeth want to overrule Macbeth and make him a murderer? A) So Macbeth has a happy life. B) So she becomes Queen and rules. C) The kindness of her heart. D) She loves the king but he hates her. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) So she becomes Queen and rules. 36. Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of? A) Johnson. B) Coleridge. C) Milton. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats. 37. How does Lady Macbeth cover for Macbeth at the banquet? A) She says that he's behaved this way since he was young. B) She changes the subject to blaming Malcolm and Donalbain. C) She plays along, as if Macbeth was acting out a scene from a play. D) She faints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She says that he's behaved this way since he was young. 38. Make all our trumpets speak! Give them all breath, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.What does clamorous mean? A) Kind;caring. B) Mean; destructive. C) Quiet; calm. D) Loud; noisy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loud; noisy. 39. Which forest appears to move? A) Sherwood Forest. B) Birnam Wood. C) Hundred Acre Wood. D) Forbidden Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birnam Wood. 40. Who is called a bird, a monkey, and an egg and then is killed when advice is not heeded? A) Banquo. B) Fleance. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Boy Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boy Macduff. 41. "To be or not to be that is the question" , is famous line of which of Shakespeare's plays? A) King Lear. B) Hamlet. C) Othello. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 42. Joe Gargery is Pip's? A) Brother-in-Jaw. B) Brother. C) Guardian. D) Cousin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guardian. 43. What does the beginning of Scene 3 offer the audience (when the Porter is answering the door)? A) Suspense. B) Tension. C) Comic relief. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comic relief. 44. Macbeth seeks out the witches in order to: A) Ask what he should do next. B) Demand what the prophecies really mean. C) Ask what he should do about Macduff. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. Which of the following is NOT a greeting to Macbeth from the witches? A) All hail Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor. B) All hail Macbeth, Prince of Cumberland. C) All hail Macbeth, Thane of Glamis. D) All hail Macbeth, who shalt be king hereafter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All hail Macbeth, Prince of Cumberland. 46. When MacBeth talks nervously about the murders, Lady MacBeth tells him to ..... A) Have some courage. B) Kill all the witnesses. C) Run away immediately. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have some courage. 47. In the beginning, The Three Witches meet in ..... A) A warm, dry house. B) In thunder, lightning, and rain. C) At Macbeth's house. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In thunder, lightning, and rain. 48. "Then, prophetlike, /They hailed him father to a line of kings./Upon my head theyplaced a fruitless crown/And put a barren scepter in my grip ..... " A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth. 49. Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor A) Gonzalo. B) Alonso. C) Ariel. D) Stephano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gonzalo. 50. Who is the comic relief in "Macbeth" ? A) Ross. B) Macduff. C) Banquo. D) The Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Porter. 51. Macbeth declares he will "sleep no more" because he believes A) He will soon die. B) He will not have sweet dreams. C) He will now become a fugitive. D) His conscience will never let him rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His conscience will never let him rest. 52. What is NOT one of the three warnings that the witches gave Macbeth in this scene? A) No man born of a woman can hurt Macbeth. B) Macbeth shall never have children. C) Beware the Thane of Fife (Macduff). D) Macbeth will not be defeated until the woods move to Dunsinane Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth shall never have children. 53. What does Duncan's son Malcolm, "the Prince of Cumberland, " represent to Macbeth? A) An enemy not to be tangled with. B) An obstacle to the throne. C) A model whose deeds he should imitate. D) A "peerless kinsman". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An obstacle to the throne. 54. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue? A) Twelfth Night. B) Hamlet. C) Henry IV, Pt I. D) The Tempest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Tempest. 55. Flees to England to escape danger A) Fleance. B) Malcolm. C) Donalbain. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malcolm. 56. What does Macduff do when he gets news that his family had been murdered? A) He swears vengeance against Macbeth. B) He faints. C) He finds an isolated area to weep. D) He gathers an English army. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He swears vengeance against Macbeth. 57. Vanity Fair is a novel by? A) Charles Dickens. B) W. M. Thackeray. C) Thomas Hardy. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W. M. Thackeray. 58. Who does Macbeth kill when challenged in his castle? A) Macduff. B) Malcolm. C) Old Siward. D) Young Siward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young Siward. 59. Finish the quote:"Macduff was from his mother's womb ..... " A) Pulled too early. B) Untimely ripped. C) Born by cesarian section. D) Untimely pulled. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untimely ripped. 60. How does Lady Macbeth explain Macbeth's unusual behavior to the Thanes during the Banquet Scene (Scene 4)? A) Illness/drunkenness. B) Stress. C) Madness/insanity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Illness/drunkenness. ← 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