This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the speaker: "at once, good night, stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once!" A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Lennox. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 2. Who said it? "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Ross. C) Macbeth. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 3. Before we actually see Macbeth, we learn that is a/an A) Traitor. B) King. C) Brave warrior. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brave warrior. 4. Who does Banquo think killed Duncan? A) Lady Macbeth. B) Donalbain. C) Malcolm. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth. 5. (From the original language) Who said this: "Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand? " A) Lady Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Macbeth. D) Witch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 6. Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named. A) Fleance. B) Lennox. C) Angus. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fleance. 7. One of the generals' wife; just as ambitious as her husband A) Lady Macbeth. B) The Three Witches. C) Hecate. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 8. Immediately following the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth appears to be A) Relieved. B) Happy. C) Self-confident. D) Hysterical and tormented. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hysterical and tormented. 9. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from? A) Homer. B) Fetronius. C) Seneca. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homer. 10. The conversation occurring between characters ..... A) Act. B) Comedy. C) Dialogue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 11. Where does Malcolm, Duncan's oldest son, decide to run away to because he may be in danger? A) England. B) Ireland. C) France. D) Denmark. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 12. What has been happening to Lady Macbeth since Banquo's death? A) She has been having hallucinations. B) She has been having horrible dreams. C) She has been followed by the ghost of Banquo. D) She has been sleepwalking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She has been sleepwalking. 13. The apparition of the bloody child represents A) Macbeth's son who died in infancy. B) Fleance. C) Macduff at birth. D) Macbeth's guilty conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macduff at birth. 14. Delivers the message from the king that Macbeth would be Thane of Cawdor. A) Fleance. B) Malcom. C) Ross. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ross. 15. Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes? A) William Hazlitt. B) John Ruskin. C) Ben Jonson. D) Thomas Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Ruskin. 16. Because Macbeth has faith in the witches' prophecies, he does not ..... A) Kill Macduff. B) Fear death at the hands of the rebels. C) Kill himself. D) Give up on war and move to England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear death at the hands of the rebels. 17. Who said it? "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Lady Macduff. D) The witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The witches. 18. What was the cause of William's death in Sons and Lovers? A) An accident. B) Pneumonia. C) An overdose of morphia. D) Suicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pneumonia. 19. How many witches are there? A) 2. B) 1. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 20. The second apparition is a bloody child. What does it tell Macbeth? A) That Banquo's sons will be kings after Macbeth. B) That no man born of woman can harm Macbeth. C) That no man will inherit the throne after Macbeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That no man born of woman can harm Macbeth. 21. What news does the messenger bring? A) That Macduff is coming home!. B) That they are in danger!. C) That Macduff was hanged!. D) That her son was chosen for the army!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That they are in danger!. 22. What does Macbeth see before he commits the murder that encourages him to move forward? A) An owl killing a falcon. B) A bloody dagger. C) The King's bloody head. D) The three witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A bloody dagger. 23. Who said 'Keats was a Greek'? A) Wordsworth. B) Lamb. C) Shelley. D) Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coleridge. 24. What does Macbeth see at the banquet that no one else does? A) Blood in the wine. B) Banquo's ghost. C) The three witches. D) Demons and devils. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banquo's ghost. 25. What vow does Lady Macbeth make? A) To see Macbeth king and herself, queen. B) To get pregnant right away. C) To divorce Macbeth. D) To see Duncan dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To see Macbeth king and herself, queen. 26. Which of the following are King Lear's daughters? A) Desdemona, Goneril and Cordelia. B) Goneril, Ophelia and Regan. C) Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. D) Regan, Cordelia and Beatrice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. 27. By this great clatter one of greatest note seems bruited. What does bruited mean? A) Quieted by excitement. B) Misunderstood by confusion. C) Announced by great noise. D) Strongly apposed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Announced by great noise. 28. The play's first act includes all of the following events except A) A coldblooded murder. B) An order of execution. C) Some treacherous plotting. D) An invasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A coldblooded murder. 29. "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won" is an example of ..... A) An antithesis statement. B) Analogy. C) Oxymoron. D) A paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An antithesis statement. 30. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures A) Great Expectations. B) The Power and the Glory. C) Lord of the Flies. D) Pride and Prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pride and Prejudice. 31. What do we find out at the end of Act II? A) Macbeth will become King. B) Malcolm will become King. C) Macduff has died. D) Macbeth confesses to murdering Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth will become King. 32. Why is Fleance's escape very troubling for Macbeth A) Fleance can identify the murderers. B) His escape deepens Macbeth's insecurities because the witches has said Banquo's children would rule. C) Fleance might try to revenge himself on Macbeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His escape deepens Macbeth's insecurities because the witches has said Banquo's children would rule. 33. Macbeth's mind is full of what? A) Scorpions. B) Pins. C) Bad thoughts. D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scorpions. 34. Who kills the servants who look guilty of the murder? A) Macduff and Lennox. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Macbeth. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 35. Who is the heroin of The Tempest? A) Ophelia. B) Desdemona. C) Miranda. D) Helena. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miranda. 36. What does Macbeth tell them to do about Banquo's son, Fleance? A) To embrace him and take care of him. B) To let him escape because he's too young. C) To kidnap him and hold him for ransom. D) To kill him, too. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To kill him, too. 37. We know that the ghost of Banquo is not "real" because A) Nobody but Macbeth can see him. B) He is not serving an actual purpose. C) He does not look like Banquo. D) He does not say anything to anyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nobody but Macbeth can see him. 38. Lady Macbeth's dialogue with her husband in Scene 5 shows that ..... A) Hopes that Macbeth will not change his mind. B) Thinks Macbeth is already the king. C) Wants to help Macbeth in his plot. D) She knows Macbeth is feeling confident. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wants to help Macbeth in his plot. 39. Lady Macbeth clearly believes that her husband's murder of Duncan would be A) Cowardly. B) Manly. C) Dangerous. D) Difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manly. 40. Is Lady Macbeth sleeping and if so, how is she sleeping? A) She isn't sleeping at all. B) She sleeps but not peacefully. C) She sleeps deeply and soundly. D) She sleeps only in the daytime. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She sleeps but not peacefully. 41. Was executed for being a traitor. A) Thane of Fife. B) Thane of Glamis. C) Thane of Cumberland. D) Thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thane of Cawdor. 42. Which of the following is the best description of Macbeth's tragic flaw? A) Arrogance. B) Sadness. C) To be kind. D) Desire for power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desire for power. 43. The drunken porter scene serves all of the following functions EXCEPT A) To allow actors time to clean up and prepare for the next scene. B) To provide comic relief. C) To introduce new information about Duncan's murder. D) To bring Macduff and Lennox into the action of the play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To introduce new information about Duncan's murder. 44. From class discussion, what is NOT an indication of guilt in Macbeth? A) Sleepwalking. B) Witches. C) Blood. D) Ghost of Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Witches. 45. Man who will be "lesser than Macbeth" A) Banquo. B) Hecate. C) Ross. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banquo. 46. What error did Macbeth make after the murder? A) He brought the daggers back to his room. B) He forgot to make sure that the king was actually dead. C) He left his sword in Duncan's room. D) He was seen by Banquo exiting the King's chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He brought the daggers back to his room. 47. What is Macbeth's response when Lennox shows him an empty chair at their table? A) He faints. B) "The table's full.". C) "I am not hungry any more ". D) "I don't like those chairs". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The table's full.". 48. Malcolm instructs the soldiers to do what action on the way to Macbeth's castle? A) Cut off branches and hold them up. B) Hold their swords up as they march in. C) Sing a chant so Macbeth can hear them arriving. D) To be silent so that no one can hear them approaching the castle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cut off branches and hold them up. 49. What "sign" convinces Macbeth that he must go through with killing the king? A) One of the witches appears in his room. B) The ghost of his father visits him. C) He sees a floating dagger before him. D) He has a nightmare about the murder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He sees a floating dagger before him. 50. What does the word "raze " in the third line most likely mean? A) To destroy and erase. B) To engrave into your mind. C) To sing a sorrowful song. D) To color and decorate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To destroy and erase. 51. Who is next in line to be king? A) Malcolm. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcolm. 52. ..... tells his brother that he fears the "daggers in the men's smiles" A) Donalbain. B) Lennox. C) MacBeth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donalbain. 53. Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it? A) Ghost, Old servant Adam. B) Leartus, Silvius. C) Osric, Touchstone. D) Fortinbras, Corin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ghost, Old servant Adam. 54. Finish the quote from Macbeth's soliloquy about the dagger:"Nature seems ..... " A) Sleepy. B) Drunk. C) Dead. D) Destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dead. 55. Which of the following is Hamlet's mother? A) Beatrice. B) Rosalind. C) Gertrude. D) Margaret. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gertrude. 56. What are the witches doing as Act 4, Scene 1 opens? A) Making a potion. B) Casting spells. C) Changing. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 57. When Macbeth asked the witches if Banquo's sons would be kings, what did they show him? A) Banquo's ghost. B) A vision of Fleance sitting on the throne. C) 8 kings that look like Banquo. D) A vision of an empty throne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8 kings that look like Banquo. 58. Which idea or "motif" is not introduced in the first scene? A) Fair being foul. B) Man as a sinner. C) Fair is foul and foul is fair. D) The stormy fate of Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man as a sinner. 59. Which thane was noticeably absent from the banquet? A) Angus. B) Lennox. C) Macduff. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macduff. 60. Why is Macbeth unconcerned in Scene 3 about the thanes who leave him to fight with Malcolm? A) These thanes are all born of women. B) Macbeth only wants to fight with Macduff. C) The prophecies make Macbeth fearless in battle. D) Macbeth wants to fight only with loyal soldiers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The prophecies make Macbeth fearless in battle. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 8Macbeth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books