This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who leaves Scotland to join Malcolm in England? A) Donalbain. B) Macduff. C) Ross. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 2. Lady Macbeth does not kill Duncan because A) She wants Macbeth to do it. B) She thinks Duncan looks like her father. C) She has no dagger. D) She is afraid she will get caught in the act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She thinks Duncan looks like her father. 3. Who said it? "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty" A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Macduff. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 4. Who is sentenced to death in Act I? A) Ross. B) The Thane of Cawdor. C) Duncan. D) The Captain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Thane of Cawdor. 5. In the last scene, Macbeth fights to the death because he A) Is given no other choice. B) Prefers an honorable defeat to a humiliating surrender. C) Does not believe Macduff's claim about his birth. D) Thinks that Macduff can be easily defeated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefers an honorable defeat to a humiliating surrender. 6. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in? A) Mexico. B) France. C) Italy. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mexico. 7. Who says the following? Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty! A) Macbeth. B) Ross. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 8. Duncan's guards are killed by ..... A) MacBeth. B) Donalbain. C) Malcolm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MacBeth. 9. In Shakespeare's time, a "nurse" was ..... A) A nanny. B) Someone who cared for the sick. C) Someone who nursed your children for you. D) A dental assistant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nanny. 10. The British government declared their concurrence in the institution of a tribunal to arbitrate upon claims for compensation.What does arbitrate mean? A) To celebrate. B) To pay damanges. C) To plant trees. D) To decide a dispute. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To decide a dispute. 11. The bloody Child apparition symbolized A) A naturally born child will not kill Macbeth. B) Macduffs family will be murdered. C) Macbeth will never have children. D) Lady Macbeth will die in childbirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A naturally born child will not kill Macbeth. 12. After reading her husband's letter: A) Lady Macbeth dismisses the words of the witches. B) Lady Macbeth is determined to question the witches. C) Lady Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan. D) Lady Macbeth plans to ask her husband for the real story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan. 13. How many witches are in Act I Scene i? A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 14. A major purpose of Act IV is to foreshadow events related to ..... A) Macbeth's downfall. B) Malcolm's future. C) Macduff's family. D) Lady Macbeth's fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth's downfall. 15. Lady Macbeth asks spirits to help her A) Make a decision. B) Trick her husband. C) Overcome temptation. D) Be as cruel as she needs to be. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Be as cruel as she needs to be. 16. At the beginning of Act 3, what feeling does Banquo express about the witches' prophecies? A) A desire to hear more. B) A wish that they not come true. C) A fear that they have been disastrous for Scotland. D) A hope that they prove true for him as they have for Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A hope that they prove true for him as they have for Macbeth. 17. Who was not "of woman born" ? A) Malcolm. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 18. Scottish general; suspicious of Macbeth A) Ross. B) Lennox. C) Banquo. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff. 19. "The better part of valour is discretion" occurs in Shakespeare's? A) Twelfth Night. B) The Tempest. C) Hamlet. D) Henry IV, Pt I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry IV, Pt I. 20. What is NOT 1 of the 3 relationships that binds Macbeth and Duncan? A) Thane. B) Host. C) Kinsman. D) Brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brother. 21. Who will be the new king of Scotland? A) Donalbain. B) Fleance. C) Macduff. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malcolm. 22. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country? A) Norway. B) Prussia. C) Iceland. D) Poland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Norway. 23. When was Macbeth written? A) 1606. B) 1931. C) 1605. D) 1604. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1606. 24. What happened to Lady Macbeth? A) She runs away from Scotland. B) She takes her own life. C) The doctor cures her but she no longer supports Macbeth. D) The reader does not find out. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She takes her own life. 25. Who will lead the attack against Macbeth? A) Banquo. B) Macduff. C) Siward. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siward. 26. How are Duncan and Malcolm related? A) Duncan and Malcolm are cousins. B) Malcolm is Duncan's son. C) Malcolm is Duncan's nephew. D) Duncan is Malcolm's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malcolm is Duncan's son. 27. What is the main message of Macbeth in Act 5, scene 1, which includes Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene? A) Illness comes to evil people. B) A guilty conscience is not easily mended. C) Wives should be forgiven for their husbands' misdeeds. D) One is doomed to relive evil deeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A guilty conscience is not easily mended. 28. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of 'love and loss' A) Browning. B) Tennyson. C) D.G. Rossetti. D) Swinburne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D.G. Rossetti. 29. The style of Paradise Lost is? A) More satirical than spontaneous. B) More Latin than most poems. C) More spontaneous than thought out. D) More dramatic than lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More Latin than most poems. 30. When a character says something on stage that only the audience hears is called a(n) A) Aside. B) Private remark. C) Speech. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 31. In considering Macbeth a tragic hero, what is the best choice for his fatal flaw? A) His ambition and desire for power. B) His love of his wife. C) His lifelong need to kill. D) Being gullible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His ambition and desire for power. 32. Where is Malcolm at the end of Act III? A) Scotland. B) England. C) Spain. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 33. Who said: "Out, damned spot! Out I say!" A) Malcolm. B) The doctor. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 34. What causes Lady Macbeth to imagine blood on her hands at the end of the story? A) Sadness. B) Guilt. C) Witches. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guilt. 35. Where were Scottish kings, including Macbeth, crowned? A) Scone. B) Forress. C) Colmekill. D) Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scone. 36. Who said, ""Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? " A) Mentieth. B) Macbeth. C) Macduff. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 37. How does Lady Macbeth react to her husband? A) She agrees and says she feels the same way. B) She tells him not to think about it. C) She comforts him and tells him that she understands. D) She laughs at him and mocks his cowardice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She tells him not to think about it. 38. What does the ghost at the dinner banquet in Scene 4 cause Macbeth to do? A) Accuse his wife of murdering Duncan. B) Become ill with a childhood illness. C) Become agitated and upset. D) Question his guests' loyalty to Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Become agitated and upset. 39. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? "The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom." A) Claudius. B) Hamlet. C) Polonius. D) Rosencrantz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 40. In Act II an animal noise is heard and frightens her. Which animal is this? A) Horse. B) Owl. C) Wolf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Owl. 41. How does Lady Macbeth die? A) She was killed while fighting in the battle. B) Malcolm murdered her. C) Of old age. D) She took her own life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She took her own life. 42. How many people see Banquo's ghost at the banquet? A) One. B) Two. C) Everyone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 43. When the witch says, "Something wicked this way comes, " you know that A) Even the witches now consider Macbeth evil. B) The witches' "master" is approaching. C) The witches are afraid of Macbeth. D) The apparitions are about to appear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Even the witches now consider Macbeth evil. 44. Why is Malcolm suspicious of Macduff? A) He is worried Macduff is trying to kill him. B) He is worried that Macduff will betray him to Macbeth. C) He is worried that Macduff wants to be king. D) He is worried that Macduff wants to find and kill King Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is worried that Macduff will betray him to Macbeth. 45. What caused The Globe Theatre to close down? A) The shortage of actors. B) The shortage of equipment. C) The Plague. D) Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Plague. 46. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel's mother's name is? A) Jane. B) Susan. C) Emily. D) Gertrude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emily. 47. Macbeth says, "I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnam ..... " A) Harvest is ablaze upon the witches. B) Brussels crushes my gates and moats. C) Army comes to the Thane of Glamis. D) Forest come to Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forest come to Dunsinane. 48. Paradise Lost shows an influence of? A) Paganism. B) Pre-Christian theology. C) Christianity and the Renaissance. D) Greek nihilism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christianity and the Renaissance. 49. Which is a prophecy given by the witches? A) Nobody born of a woman will ever harm Macbeth. B) Beware Macduff. C) Macbeth will never be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane Hill. D) Hail Macbeth, thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hail Macbeth, thane of Cawdor. 50. Did the murderers succeed in the killing of both Banquo and Fleance? A) Don't know. B) Maybe. C) Yes. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 51. What disease was described by someone "[eating] lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise? " A) Bubonic plague. B) Black flu. C) Intestine plague. D) Lime disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bubonic plague. 52. When Banquo says he will oppose and fight the unknown traitor who killed Duncan in Scene 3, he becomes one of the tragedy's ..... A) Antagonists. B) Comic relief characters. C) Tragic heroes. D) Flawed characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonists. 53. What has England lent Malcolm? A) 10, 000 soldiers and Siward. B) Armor. C) Horses. D) Weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10, 000 soldiers and Siward. 54. Why is Hecate so upset? A) The witches made fun of her. B) The witches didn't include her in their plans with Macbeth. C) She is jealous of Macbeth. D) She's not upset; she's just a witch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The witches didn't include her in their plans with Macbeth. 55. The key-note of Browning's philosophy of life is? A) Pessimism. B) Agnosticism. C) Skepticism. D) Optimism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Optimism. 56. What happens to the two servants who were supposed to be standing guard over the king? A) Macbeth kills them. B) They are thrown in jail. C) Banquo kills them. D) They are executed after being found guilty in a trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth kills them. 57. What does Lady Macbeth do when Macduff tells her that Duncan has been killed? A) She kills the guards in revenge. B) She faints. C) She runs away. D) She demands that Macduff find the killer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She faints. 58. Which thane is cousins with Macduff and his wife? A) Lord. B) Angus. C) Lennox. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ross. 59. What IS NOT part of the Duncan murder plot? A) Wait until everyone has gone to bed. B) Put the bloody daggers back on the guards. C) Have Lady Macbeth kill Duncan. D) Get the guards drunk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have Lady Macbeth kill Duncan. 60. What does the 2nd apparition foretell? A) No man born of woman can harm Macbeth. B) Beware Macduff. C) Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam Wood move to Dunsiname. D) Banquo's ancestors will become kings for many generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No man born of woman can harm Macbeth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 8Macbeth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books