This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is fearful of divine punishment because he cannot say "Amen" A) Banquo. B) MacBeth. C) Donalbain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MacBeth. 2. In reference Lady Macbeth's reason for not murdering Duncan, what does this reveal about her character A) She is ruthless. B) She may lack the confidence she conveys to Macbeth. C) She believes in the prophesies made by the witchesb. D) She respects Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She may lack the confidence she conveys to Macbeth. 3. Who is the only man in the play shown in hand-to-hand combat with Macbeth A) Banquo. B) Duncan. C) Young Siward. D) Duncan's guard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Young Siward. 4. How is Banquo feeling at the beginning of Act 3? A) Scared. B) Suspicious. C) Content. D) Proud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suspicious. 5. Who was the first to discover Duncan's dead body? A) Macduff. B) The Porter. C) Lennox. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 6. Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare? A) A mid summer night's dream. B) Love's labour's lost. C) Much ado about nothing. D) As you like it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love's labour's lost. 7. What is the most likely reason why Lady Macbeth faints? A) The sight of Duncan's corpse sickens her. B) She wants to emphasize her female appearance. C) She feels uneasy when she and Macbeth lock eyes. D) She wants to distract everyone from figuring out who killed Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wants to distract everyone from figuring out who killed Duncan. 8. To give someone something for doing something good A) To compensate someone. B) To take care of. C) To reward someone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To reward someone. 9. What "double trust" is making Macbeth so unsure about killing King Duncan? A) Duncan is his king and his guest. B) Duncan's sons are his guests. C) Duncan commands both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. D) Duncan has named him Thane of Cawdor and Thane of Glamis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Duncan is his king and his guest. 10. Who is Duncan's heir to the throne? A) Macbeth. B) Fleance. C) Malcolm. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malcolm. 11. As a result of the visions Macbeth sees from the witches, he decides to: A) Find and kill Fleance. B) Kill Macduff's wife and children. C) Replace all of his thanes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kill Macduff's wife and children. 12. Who will take the blame for Duncan's murder? A) Malcolm. B) Banquo. C) The chamberlains. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The chamberlains. 13. "There's no art/To find the mind's construction in the face:/He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust." A) Banquo. B) Duncan. C) Macbeth. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duncan. 14. What do the witches tell Banquo? A) Banquo's descendents will be kings someday, but he will not. B) Banquo will get a new castle too. C) Banquo is going to be generous in the future. D) Banquo is suspicious for a good reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banquo's descendents will be kings someday, but he will not. 15. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a? A) Picaresque novel. B) Historical novel. C) Gothic novel. D) Domestic novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Domestic novel. 16. Who's son does Macbeth kill? A) Malcolm's. B) Ross'. C) Siward's. D) Angus'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siward's. 17. Her son is murdered by men hired by Macbeth A) Lady Siward. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Lady Egg. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lady Macduff. 18. What happens to the original Thane of Cawdor? A) He commits suicide. B) He is executed. C) He is killed in battle. D) He flees Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is executed. 19. If this which he avouches does appear, there is nor flying hence not tarrying here.What does avouches mean? A) Contradict. B) Guess wrong. C) Affirm. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affirm. 20. In Act IV, what does the messenger tell Macbeth? A) Birnam Wood moving to Dunsiname. B) Macduff mad that his family is dead. C) He will soon be killed. D) The army is coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Birnam Wood moving to Dunsiname. 21. How is Macbeth's toast to Banquo dramatic irony? A) Banquo is not there because he was murdered. B) Banquo is not there because he has fled to England. C) Banquo is not a friend of Macbeth's any longer. D) Banquo is plotting the murder of Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banquo is not there because he was murdered. 22. In Japan, Manga is read by most people. A) True. B) False. C) It depends what dimension you are talking about. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. The following lines are an example of image. 'The river sweats Oil and tar' A) Erotic. B) Visual. C) Sensual. D) Kinetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erotic. 24. How many apparitions/prophecies do the witches show Macbeth in this Act 4? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 25. "Now does he feel his title/Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe/Upon a dwarfish thief." A) Angus. B) Seyton. C) Macbeth. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angus. 26. What does Macbeth accidentally take with him after murdering the king? A) The dagger. B) The king's crown. C) A book. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dagger. 27. The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in? A) 1823. B) 1826. C) 1833. D) 1834. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1833. 28. In the Old Man's dialogue in Scene iv, which of the following symbolizes King Duncan? A) A mousing owl. B) A horse. C) Darkness. D) A falcon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A horse. 29. ..... is the name of Banquo's son A) Malcolm. B) Donalbain. C) Porter. D) Fleance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fleance. 30. Now that Macbeth has become "wicked" the next prophecies by the witches serve to A) Anger Macbeth. B) Make Macbeth confused as to his actions. C) Undo all the harm they have done. D) Give Macbeth false hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Undo all the harm they have done. 31. Who does Macduff say he will fight? A) Anyone who supports a tyrant. B) Anyone who threatens him. C) No one but Macbeth. D) Anyone connected with Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No one but Macbeth. 32. How does this apparition/prophecy from Act 4 come true in Act 5:Beware Macduff A) Macduff kills Macbeth. B) Macduff becomes the next king. C) Macduff steals all of Macbeth's money. D) Macduff kills Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff kills Macbeth. 33. "We have lost best half of our affair." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) A murderer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A murderer. 34. One important feature of Jane Austen's style is? A) Boisterous humour. B) Humour and pathos. C) Subtlety of irony. D) Stream of consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humour and pathos. 35. What did Macbeth do to Macdonwald? A) Stabbed him in the heart. B) Poisoned him. C) Ripped him in half with his sword from navel to chin. D) Cut off his head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ripped him in half with his sword from navel to chin. 36. When Lady Macbeth says, "Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him, " she is referring to ..... A) Fleance. B) Banquo. C) Duncan. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan. 37. What do the 3 witches tell Macbeth? A) He will be king. B) He will die. C) He will become prince. D) He will become a devil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He will be king. 38. How many murderers did Macbeth send to kill Banquo? A) One. B) Four. C) Three. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 39. What did Macbeth say was his reason for killing the guards? A) He was so upset that he couldn't control himself. B) He killed Duncan and they were going to tell on him. C) His wife made him do it. D) They were trying to kill him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was so upset that he couldn't control himself. 40. Of what place does the Porter say he is the gatekeeper? A) Macbeth's castle. B) King Duncan's castle. C) Hell. D) Heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hell. 41. The person who discovers Duncan's dead body is A) Lennox. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff. 42. :Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time" . Who wrote above lines for Shakespeare: A) Jonson. B) Bacon. C) Wordsworth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jonson. 43. Why does Macbeth most likely bring the bloody daggers to Lady Macbeth? A) He needs to show how easy the deed was for him. B) He has to prove that he has murdered Duncan. C) He wants to frighten her for encouraging him. D) He feels distressed and shocked at what he has done. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He feels distressed and shocked at what he has done. 44. Malcolm has gone to ..... to ask King Edward to hep him overthrow MacBeth. A) Scotland. B) Sweden. C) England. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 45. Who does Macbeth plan to murder in scene i? A) Macduff. B) Banquo and Fleance. C) Duncan. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banquo and Fleance. 46. Who says:Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Duncan. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth. 47. ..... fears that the bloody daggers will reveal who killed the King and replaces them in the room. A) Banquo. B) MacBeth. C) Lady MacBeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady MacBeth. 48. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's ..... in order to persuade him. A) Story. B) King. C) Motives. D) Manliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manliness. 49. Shakespeare's plays were performed at this theatre ..... A) The Colosseum. B) The Oval. C) The Globe. D) The Horseshoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Globe. 50. As Macbeth prepared to murder Duncan, he imagined that he saw ..... floating before him. A) The Witches. B) A bloody dagger. C) A blood-soaked crown. D) Duncan's severed head. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A bloody dagger. 51. What does Macduff promise that he is no to Malcolm? A) A coward. B) A traitor. C) A murderer. D) A spy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A traitor. 52. Shakespeare tried ALL of these professions, EXCEPT ..... A) Teacher. B) Playwright. C) Actor. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Teacher. 53. The "damned spot" to which Lady Macbeth refers is A) Macbeth's predicament. B) A spot where the ghost haunted Macbeth. C) Birnam Wood. D) Duncan's bloodstain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duncan's bloodstain. 54. Who has the gifts of healing and prophecy? He is a man graced by God. A) Malcolm. B) Macduff. C) King Edward. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Edward. 55. "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." A) Banquo. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) The Witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 56. Before Macbeth returns to his castle, Lady Macbeth tells the audience of her fears that might keep Macbeth from following her plan. She claims he is: A) Too attached to Duncan. B) Too weak. C) Too kind. D) Too cowardly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Too kind. 57. Lady Macbeth insist that she have ..... by her bed every night. A) A hand-washing basin. B) A knife. C) A light. D) A glass of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A light. 58. What leads Macbeth to Duncan's chambers? A) A raven. B) A ghost dagger. C) A whispered voice. D) A black dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A ghost dagger. 59. What is the main message of Act V, Scene i, which includes Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene? A) Wives should be forgiven for their husbands' misdeeds. B) One is doomed to relive evil deeds. C) Illness comes to evil people. D) A guilty conscience is not easily mended. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A guilty conscience is not easily mended. 60. What prediction from the witches is false? A) Banquo's sons would be king. B) Macbeth will be the Thane of Cawdor. C) Malcolm will kill Macbeth. D) Macbeth will be King of Scotland. 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