This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is fitting that Malcom gives the final speech of the play because A) He was most wronged byMacbeth. B) He has killed Macbeth. C) All the other majorcharacters are dead. D) He is now king of Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is now king of Scotland. 2. In Scene 2, Duncan listens to a wounded soldier tell a story about ..... A) Some witches he encounters. B) How they lost the battle. C) Macbeth's bravery and prowess during the battle. D) How he was wounded during the battle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth's bravery and prowess during the battle. 3. Why is Macbeth preparing for war at the end of Act 3? A) Lennox is threatening to take his throne. B) All of his thanes are rebelling against him. C) He wants to conquer England for Scotland. D) Malcolm and Macduff are preparing to fight him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm and Macduff are preparing to fight him. 4. Who is glad his son died like an honorable soldier in battle? He is also Malcolm's uncle. A) Angus. B) Lennox. C) Old Siward. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old Siward. 5. Who reads a letter from Macbeth describing what he saw and thinks about his future? A) Lady Macbeth. B) King Duncan. C) Banquo. D) Angus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 6. How many from his plays were published in his lifetime: A) Only seventeen. B) Only nineteen. C) Only eighteen. D) Only sixteen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only seventeen. 7. What happens to Macbeth at the end of Act 2? A) He is killed. B) He is crowned King of Scotland. C) He goes after Malcolm. D) He leaves Lady Macbeth for his mistress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is crowned King of Scotland. 8. When Macduff receives news of his family's death, Malcolm urges him to ..... A) Try not to think about it. B) Stay away from Scotland. C) Grieve quietly and peacefully. D) Get angry and take revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Get angry and take revenge. 9. Which one is not a prophecy made by the witches to Macbeth, when he goes to see them? A) Beware Macduff. B) You are safe til Birnam's wood moves. C) Your son will be king. D) No one born of a woman can harm you. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Your son will be king. 10. Which of the following is NOT something Lady Macbeth talks about in her sleep? A) Banquo. B) King Duncan. C) Malcolm. D) Macduff's wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malcolm. 11. What does Lady Macbeth do while asleep that symbolizes her guilt over killing Duncan? A) Tries to wash her hands. B) Tries to commit suicide. C) Tries to kill Macbeth. D) Tries to escape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tries to wash her hands. 12. Lady Macbeth places the grooms' daggers beside them and smears the grooms with blood because ..... A) She has just killed them. B) Macbeth is too injured to do it himself. C) She wants Malcolm to be blamed for their deaths. D) Macbeth refuses to go back and do it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth refuses to go back and do it. 13. What are the witches planning at the beginning of the ACT? A) To meet Duncan. B) To meet Malcolm. C) To meet Macbeth. D) To meet Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To meet Macbeth. 14. Based upon the information in Act I, what appears to be Macbeth's character flaw? A) An obsessive need to be loved. B) A desire for power. C) Slow-wittedness. D) Cowardice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A desire for power. 15. What decision does Macbeth make here? A) Macbeth will ask the witches to curse Macduff. B) Macbeth will run to England and ask Macduff's forgiveness. C) Macbeth will kill Macduff (just to be sure!). D) Macbeth will leave Macduff alone, since Macduff can't hurt him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth will kill Macduff (just to be sure!). 16. What unique power does Kind Edward have? A) He can cure the sick and see the future. B) He can hear the witches' prophecies when they speak to Macbeth. C) He can turn back time to stop the killing of King Duncan. D) He is actually Hecate and can control the witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He can cure the sick and see the future. 17. Who drugged the guards' drinks? A) Banquo. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Macbeth. D) The witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 18. How has Macbeth murdered sleep? A) He killed the trust Duncan had for him. B) He killed his peace of mind. C) He murdered the guards. D) He has been up all night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He killed his peace of mind. 19. What does Macbeth think his wife will do after she hears of Banquo's murder? A) Faint. B) Applaud him. C) Laugh. D) Cry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Applaud him. 20. How many people can see the ghost? A) One. B) Everyone. C) Three. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 21. Identify the speaker: "We have scorched the snake, not killed it" A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 22. Which character pledges to "plant" a new peace, and to heal the wounds Macbeth and his "fiend-like queen" inflicted on Scotland. A) Donalbain. B) Malcolm. C) Siward. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malcolm. 23. At the start of the play, which title does Macbeth already have? A) Thane of Glamis. B) Thane of Cawdor. C) King of Scotland. D) King of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thane of Glamis. 24. The Globe theatre had the following EXCEPT: A) Gentlemen's rooms. B) Musician's gallery. C) Electric lighting. D) Trap doors in the stage floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Electric lighting. 25. What reason does Macbeth GIVE for killing Duncan's grooms/guards? A) They were guilty, and Macbeth couldn't control his rage. B) They were really English spies. C) They tried to kill Macbeth-it was self-defense. D) He didn't kill them; they were already dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were guilty, and Macbeth couldn't control his rage. 26. Act III serves mainly to ..... A) Introduce important new characters. B) Resolve the play's central conflicts. C) Expose Macbeth's mounting troubles. D) Introduce the play's climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expose Macbeth's mounting troubles. 27. Based upon the information in Act I, what can you infer about King Duncan? A) He is a weak leader. B) He is a shrewd military planner. C) He is reluctant to join his men in battle. D) He placed a high value on loyalty and bravery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He placed a high value on loyalty and bravery. 28. 'Heaven lies about us in our infancy'. This line occurs in the poem? A) Immortality Ode. B) Tintern Abbey. C) The Second Coming. D) Leda and the Swan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immortality Ode. 29. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson "Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true." A) Synecdoche. B) Oxymoron. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 30. Who discovers Duncan's body? A) Ross. B) Donalbain. C) Lennox. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff. 31. Ross tells Macduff his wife and babies are "at peace." Since we, the audience, know they are already dead, this is known as which type of irony? A) Situational. B) Verbal. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 32. Who is crowned king at the end of the play? A) Macduff. B) Donalbain. C) Siward. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm. 33. Macbeth's guilt that causes him to imagine he sees Banquo's ghost at the banquet is an example of A) Theme. B) Internal conflict. C) External conflict. D) Poetic license. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal conflict. 34. Which of the following was written first: A) Henry six. B) Henry seven. C) Henry five. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry six. 35. ..... is a depiction of real-life men and women from the past. A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) History. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) History. 36. Who said:" I would, while it is smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Siward. C) Lady Macduff. D) The gentlewoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 37. King Duncan makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor because A) Duncan knows thatMacbeth will betray him otherwise. B) Macbeth has foughtvaliantly for the king. C) Banquo told Duncanabout the prophecies. D) Malcolm is going tobecome a prince, thus leaving his position open. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth has foughtvaliantly for the king. 38. " ..... all you have done/Hath been but for a wayward son, /Spiteful and wrathful, who, asothers do, /Loves for his own ends, not for you." A) Macbeth. B) Ross. C) Hecate. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hecate. 39. What title is given to Macbeth for bravery in the battle? A) Thane of Glamis. B) Thane of Cawdor. C) King of Scotland. D) Prince of Cumberland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thane of Cawdor. 40. Executed for being a traitor A) Thane of Glamis. B) Captain. C) Macbeth. D) Thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thane of Cawdor. 41. Near the end of Act I, Macbeth expresses doubt about murdering the king because A) Macbeth is the king's subject and host. B) It could weaken all of Scotland. C) The king's sons would kill him. D) Lady Macbeth has misgivings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth is the king's subject and host. 42. The original Thane of Cawdor is executed because A) He cheated on his wife. B) He committed treason against King Duncan andScotland. C) He killed the queen. D) He refused to go into battle because he was acoward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He committed treason against King Duncan andScotland. 43. Supernatural agents of fate who predict Macbeth will become King of Scotland A) Macbeth. B) The Three Witches. C) Hecate. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Three Witches. 44. Who said the following quotation: "No more the Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death, / And with his former title greet Macbeth." A) Angus. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duncan. 45. "But for your husband, / He is noble, wise, ....., and best knows / The fits o' th' seasons ..... " A) Credulous. B) Pernicious. C) Sundry. D) Judicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judicious. 46. In this passage, Lady Macbeth is referring to the murder of A) Banquo. B) Malcolm. C) Lady Macduff. D) Herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macduff. 47. Which of the following is one of Banquo's predictions? A) All hail Banquo, future king. B) Poorer than Macbeth, but richer. C) Lesser than Macbeth, but greater. D) All hail Banquo, Thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lesser than Macbeth, but greater. 48. What does the gentlewoman say that Lady Macbeth keeps with her at all times? A) Macbeth's daggers. B) Light. C) Duncan's sheets. D) Macbeth's letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light. 49. Which of the following symbols in Act, 2, Scene ii signals that the murder has been accomplished? A) The knocking at the south entry. B) The words spoken by Malcolm and Donalbain. C) The owl's scream and the crickets' cries. D) The voice Macbeth hears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The owl's scream and the crickets' cries. 50. Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a A) Lawyer. B) School teacher. C) Judge. D) Postman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lawyer. 51. In Scene ii, Lady Macbeth's purpose in drugging the servants is A) So they will sleep through King Duncan's murder. B) To kill them for their knowledge of the crime. C) To erase their memory of the night. D) So they will commit King Duncan's murder. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) So they will sleep through King Duncan's murder. 52. ..... is awake late at night with his son and is alarmed by dreams he's had of the witches. A) Donalbain. B) Banquo. C) Lennox. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banquo. 53. What is the English translation of "manga" ? A) Drawn Art. B) Humorous Pictures. C) Graphic Novel. D) Funny video. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humorous Pictures. 54. Who said it? "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key." A) Porter. B) Ross. C) Lady Macduff. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Porter. 55. How does Banquo know that Macbeth will not remain king? A) He thinks Macbeth will step down from being king. B) He had a dream of Macbeth being assassinated. C) Macbeth is starting to get sick. D) Banquo's sons were prophecied to be kings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Banquo's sons were prophecied to be kings. 56. Why does Macbeth question Banquo about his plans for his riding expedition with Fleance? A) He hopes to join Banquo later. B) He wants to advise him of the best route. C) He wants to pass this information to the murderers he's hired. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants to pass this information to the murderers he's hired. 57. What is Macbeth's original title that the witches greet him with? A) Hail to thee Thane of Glamis. B) Hail to thee Thane of Scotland. C) Hail to thee Thane of Shakespeare. D) Hail to thee great warrior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hail to thee Thane of Glamis. 58. Where have the Scottish forces agreed to meet the English army? A) Near Dunsinane. B) Near Macbeth's castle. C) Near Birnam Wood. D) On the heath where Macbeth met the witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Near Birnam Wood. 59. Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking in scene 1 is caused by A) Her guilt in all the murders. B) Her husband's abandonment. C) Her murder of Lady Macduff. D) The witches haunting her dreams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her guilt in all the murders. 60. What does the first witch do that shows she is bad? A) Gets drunk. B) Lies to Macbeth about who will be king. C) Keeps a sailors thumb as a toy. D) Makes plans to kill the king. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keeps a sailors thumb as a toy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 8Macbeth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books