This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How are Banquo and Fleance related? A) Banquo is Fleance's father. B) Fleance and Banquo are brothers. C) Fleance is Banquo's father. D) Banquo is Fleance's uncle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banquo is Fleance's father. 2. Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air. A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) The 3 Witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The 3 Witches. 3. When a character speaks to himself only when others are on stage A) Soliloquy. B) Sleep talking. C) Speech. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 4. Who is believed to have killed the king? A) Macbeth. B) The guards. C) Malcolm and Donalbain. D) Macduff and Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The guards. 5. In Scene iii, what finally convinces Malcolm that Macduff is loyal? A) Macduff's attempts to refute Malcolm's claims of character flaws. B) Macduff's professed hatred for Macbeth. C) Macduff's noble despair for his country. D) Macduff's reaction to the murder of his family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macduff's noble despair for his country. 6. When does Macbeth give the speech, "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" ? A) When Seyton reported that Malcolm's army was approaching. B) When Seyton reported that Lady Macbeth had died. C) After he had learned that Lady Macbeth was sick. D) They were his final words before he died. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When Seyton reported that Lady Macbeth had died. 7. In reference to the previous question, Shakespeare uses the imagery to continually convey Macbeth's evil side. The author is employing which literary device? A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Motif. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 8. In Act 2, Scene 4, Macduff subtly emphasizes his opposition to Macbeth by A) Preparing to flee Scotland. B) Publicly swearing allegiance to Malcolm. C) Attempting to rally the thanes against Macbeth. D) Refusing to go see Macbeth crowned. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refusing to go see Macbeth crowned. 9. Macbeth murders the king's servants so that they cannot A) Try to get away. B) Investigate the crime. C) Claim they were framed and didn't kill Duncan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim they were framed and didn't kill Duncan. 10. Why does Birnam Wood appear to move? A) The soldiers have disguised themselves with branches. B) There are Ents in the wood. C) The witches have put a spell on it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The soldiers have disguised themselves with branches. 11. Complete Macbeth's quotation: "I thought I heard a voice crying, 'Macbeth has murdered ..... !" ' A) Honor. B) Duncan. C) Sleep. D) Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleep. 12. Shakespeare probably wrote Macbeth to impress his Scottish ruler ..... A) Elizabeth IV. B) James V. C) James I. D) Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James I. 13. How is Lady Macbeth feeling about the murder? A) Lady Macbeth feels unhappy and regretful. B) Lady Macbeth feels that it is time to move on. C) Lady Macbeth feels murderous and is ready to murder again. D) Lady Macbeth feels happy that she is queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth feels that it is time to move on. 14. Who foreshadows Lady Macbeth's suicide when he or she says that "the means of all annoyance" should be taken away from her? A) The doctor. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) The gentlewoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The doctor. 15. The 2nd apparition tells Macbeth that no one borne from a woman will harm him. What does this apparition look like? A) A bloody child. B) A line of kings resembling Banquo. C) A crowned child holding a tree. D) An armed head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bloody child. 16. What disturbance of The Great Chain of Being does the Old Man say he has heard about? A) Fires staring out of nowhere. B) Duncan's horses eating each other. C) The earthquake. D) The eclipse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Duncan's horses eating each other. 17. What image appears before Macbeth late at night? A) The ghost of Macdonwald. B) A cannon. C) A dagger. D) A witch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dagger. 18. Where does King Duncan come to spend the night? A) Banquo's castle. B) Macbeth's castle. C) A battlefield. D) His own estate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth's castle. 19. Lady Macbeth is referring to the murder of A) Malcolm. B) Banquo. C) King Duncan. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Duncan. 20. ..... says that Macbeth won't be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to Macbeth's castle. A) The bloody child. B) Banquo's ghost. C) The armed head. D) The child with a crown and a tree branch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The child with a crown and a tree branch. 21. Legend has it that Macbeth is a cursed play. What do theater people call the play to avoid the curse? A) The Play Which must not be named. B) The Bloody Play. C) The Scottish Play. D) The Curse of Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Scottish Play. 22. Why is Young Siward's death deemed honorable? A) He died fighting Macbeth. B) His wounds were on the front of his body. C) He accepted any challenge. D) He died in extended hand-to-hand combat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His wounds were on the front of his body. 23. In what way is Lady Macbeth stronger than her husband? A) She is harsher with the servants. B) She is better able to pretend she loves King Duncan. C) She stands firm when Macbeth begins to waver in his deadly purpose. D) She understands the witches' prophesies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She stands firm when Macbeth begins to waver in his deadly purpose. 24. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet? A) Nine. B) Three. C) Five. D) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seven. 25. Why does Macbeth urge Macduff to leave? A) He wants to give the man a fair chance. B) He likes him and wants him to live, if not have the throne. C) He feels he has enough of Macduff's family's blood on his hands. D) He is lying to make him feel more secure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He feels he has enough of Macduff's family's blood on his hands. 26. In scene 5, Lady Macbeth's immediate reaction upon reading her husband's letter is to express doubt about A) Her own determination. B) Macbeth's strength of will. C) The witches' prophecies. D) Macbeth's ambition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth's strength of will. 27. The Lord Chamberlin's Men was A) Shakespeare's school. B) The name of the soldiers who guarded the monarchs. C) Shakespeare's acting company. D) Shakespeare's church choir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare's acting company. 28. The Climax of the play is.. A) The murder of Duncan. B) Hecate's appearance. C) Banquo's death. D) Fleance's escape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The murder of Duncan. 29. Where is Ross and Macduff headed at the end of Act 2? A) Fife. B) England. C) Ireland. D) Scone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fife. 30. Which of these describes Lady Macbeth's death? A) She dies offstage. B) She stumbles and falls on a knife. C) She stumbles and falls off a tower. D) Macbeth kills her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She dies offstage. 31. Shakespeare's plays were acted out by all A) Men and women. B) Women and children. C) Men and boys. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Men and boys. 32. Thackeray's "Esmond" is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of? A) The Elizabethan age. B) The Victorian age. C) The Medieval age. D) The age of Queen Anne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Medieval age. 33. Who said it? "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." A) Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) Lady Macbeth. D) The witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 34. Flees to Ireland. A) Donalbain. B) Fleance. C) Malcolm. D) Macdonwald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Donalbain. 35. .....was father of Desdemona? A) Gratiano. B) Brabantio. C) Othello. D) Iago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brabantio. 36. What news do Ross and Angus bring to Macbeth? A) The front line has been pushed back. B) Lady Macbeth is ill. C) The Thane of Glamis is dead. D) Macbeth has been named the Thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth has been named the Thane of Cawdor. 37. Who or what did Macbeth see at the banquet table? A) Duncan's ghost. B) Lady Macbeth's ghost. C) The witches. D) Banquo's ghost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Banquo's ghost. 38. Why doesn't Lady Macduff's son believe that his father is actually dead? A) Because she's not weeping for him. B) Because he saw him through the window. C) Because she is drunk. D) Because he has a bad relationship with her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because she's not weeping for him. 39. Where is Macduff? A) In the palace preparing things. B) In Ireland. C) In England helping Malcolm raise an army. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In England helping Malcolm raise an army. 40. What does Lady Macbeth tell her husband to do in front of the king when he comes to their castle? A) Play the innocent. B) Poison him. C) Give him praise. D) Isolate him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Play the innocent. 41. How does Lady Macbeth convince Macbeth to support her plan? A) She flatters him with compliments. B) She threatens to leave him. C) She ignores him and pouts. D) She challenges his manliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She challenges his manliness. 42. What does Macbeth do to show his heroism in the battle? A) He kills Macdonald and fights off Norway. B) He kills the Thane of Cawdor. C) He captures the castle at Fife. D) He frees Duncan from captivity and kills Macdonald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He kills Macdonald and fights off Norway. 43. Elizabethan tragedies were modeled on plays from A) France. B) Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. C) Ancient Greece and Rome. D) Early South American civilizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ancient Greece and Rome. 44. Browning's famous poem 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is included in? A) Dramatis Personae. B) Dramatic Idyls. C) Asolando. D) Red Cotton Night-Cap Country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatis Personae. 45. Some say he's mad, others that lesser hate him do call it valiant fury. What does valiant mean? A) Courageous. B) Crazy. C) Strong. D) Mad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Courageous. 46. What best describes why Macbeth is being crowned king? A) Duncan had previously named him the successor. B) He was a war hero and proved himself worthy of the title. C) He was the only thane of proper age. D) Malcolm and Donalbain were absent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm and Donalbain were absent. 47. What is a probable reason that Macbeth could not say "Amen" during the murder? A) He has lost his faith. B) He was afraid someone would hear him. C) He is overcome with horror and guilt. D) He was in a big hurry to leave the crime scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is overcome with horror and guilt. 48. Immediately after committing the murder, Macbeth feels: A) Guilty. B) Numb. C) Exhilerated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guilty. 49. What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death? A) He is glad, because now his secret has died with her. B) He is calm, saying that she would have died sooner or later, anyway. C) He flies into a rage and kills the doctor. D) He calls on the witches to bring her back to life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is calm, saying that she would have died sooner or later, anyway. 50. Who skips the Macbeths' banquet? A) Ross. B) Lennox. C) Angus. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff. 51. Who are the first characters we meet in the play? A) King Duncan. B) The Witches. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Witches. 52. Lady Macbeth had the chance to kill Duncan herself. What reason does she give for not doing it? A) She was still too feminine. B) She was too drunk and noisy. C) Duncan looked like her father. D) She wanted Macbeth to be a man and do it himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duncan looked like her father. 53. What does Lady Macbeth do with the daggers? A) She clean them and returns them to the kitchen. B) She buries them in the woods. C) She forces Macbeth to return them to the King's side. D) She plants them on the king's servants and smears the servants with blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She plants them on the king's servants and smears the servants with blood. 54. Who does Macbeth hire after Banquo leaves the castle for the day? A) Cooks. B) Murderers. C) Guards. D) Thieves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Murderers. 55. Who are the only two lords to speak during the banquet? A) Contieth and Macduff. B) Ross and Lennox. C) Lennox and Lenon. D) Siyward and Seyton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ross and Lennox. 56. Macbeth decides not to kill King Duncan because A) He fears he would be caught. B) Lady Macbeth could not plan for everything. C) He is his host and a loyal subject. D) Banquo will suspect him of murder. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is his host and a loyal subject. 57. What does the following quote from Lady Macbeth reveal? "Nought's had, all's spent, / Where our desire is got without content" A) We're no better off, when what we desired has not brought us contentment. B) Being queen is more work then she expected. C) It's great to be queen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We're no better off, when what we desired has not brought us contentment. 58. A Graymalkin is a ..... A) Another name for a witch. B) A gray spirit cat. C) Usurped king. D) A filthy toad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gray spirit cat. 59. In Scene 2, Duncan orders Ross to A) Warn others of the thane of Cawdor's treachery. B) Inform others of the thane of Cawdor's death. C) Tell Macbeth he is the new thane of Cawdor. D) Command Macbeth to kill the thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell Macbeth he is the new thane of Cawdor. 60. The title of the poem 'The Second Coming' is taken from? A) The Greek mythology. B) The Irish mythology. C) The Bible. D) The German mythology. 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