Macbeth Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which best describes how Shakespeare portrays Macduff's son in Act IV?
2. Who called Shelley 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain'?
3. Why does Macduff say that HE must be the one to kill Macbeth?
4. What word best describes Scotland during Macbeth's reign?
5. What word(s) best describes Lady Macbeth in Act 1?
6. What does Banquo want to speak with Macbeth about the first night he stays at his castle?
7. "My thanes and kinsmen, /Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland/In such anhonor named."
8. Why does the doctor say he cannot help Lady Macbeth?
9. Shakespeare chooses to include the scene with the Porter in scene 3 to demonstrate what?
10. After Macbeth's death, the crown of Scotland goes to
11. What does Macbeth mean by this statement?
12. Who was villain in Othello?
13. What plan does Macbeth begin to develop in Act 1?
14. What does Macbeth initially blame his hallucination of a dagger on?
15. What is the name of the forest that the witches prophesised would move towards Dunsinane?
16. " A man can die but once" is one of quote of following plays:
17. Who says, ""They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But, bearlike, I must fight the course. What's he That was not born of woman? Such a one Am I to fear, or none.
18. In reference to the previous question, Banquo, the Old Man and Macduff discuss that Malcolm and Donalbain may have
19. What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says Out, damned spot"
20. What do the witches predict in Act 1 for Banquo?
21. What will most likely lead to Macbeth's downfall in the tragedy?
22. What country was Scotland at war with at the beginning of Macbeth?
23. What does Fleance do after being ambushed with Banquo?
24. Following are the lines of: "I'm your wife if you marry me If not, I'll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you deny or not" .
25. What is the importance of the camouflage used by Malcolm's army?
26. Who says, "Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripped"
27. The cry of which creature scares a drunk Lady Macbeth while she is waiting for Macbeth's return?
28. Although invisible to others, in Scene 1, what does Lady Macbeth try to wash away?
29. As Macbeth's anxiety grows, he orders the doctor to .....
30. Banquo is told by the witches that he will be ..... and ..... than Macbeth.
31. Who says 'Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts'
32. What does the son tell his mother when he is stabbed?
33. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?
34. When Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth in Act III, Scene iv, "We are yet but young in deed, " he means that they are .....
35. What is the name of Macbeth's servant?
36. In Scene 3, Shakespeare most likely has the witches speak in rhyme instead of blank verse to make their comments sound
37. King Duncan decides to make Macbeth Thane of Cawdor because .....
38. What is Lady Macbeth trying to scrub away when the doctor sees her?
39. Who said it? "My sword will talk for me."
40. Hamlet's famous speech 'To be, or not to be; that is the question' occurs in?
41. In Act IV when the witch says, "Something wicked this way comes, " you know that .....
42. The original Thane of Cawdor is labelled as a
43. Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by:
44. Based on line 2, which of the following statements would Macbeth agree with?
45. Where does Donalbain flee after Duncan's death?
46. What is weird about the night that Macbeth kills Duncan?
47. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?
48. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?
49. What is Macbeth's plan for killing Banquo and Fleance?
50. In the second scene, what does King Duncan order Ross to do?
51. Before becoming Thane of Cawdor Macbeth is Thane of Glamis, but what is a Thane?
52. This character breaks the news to Macduff about his family being slaughtered.
53. The porter provides comic relief by
54. At the beginning of Act II, Macbeth and Banquo have a conversation. It is clear that Macbeth is lying when he says that he
55. What IS NOT one of the pronouncements of the apparitions?
56. Macbeth's evil side is associated with
57. How is the Porter speaking of death when he appears in the play?
58. Who says the following lines, "Out, damned spot; out I say" (5.1.27-30)
59. In Scene 6, line 24, Duncan's reference to Lady Macbeth as a "noble hostess" is an example of dramatic irony because the audience knows that
60. How does Macbeth persuade the two murderers to kill Banquo?