This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do Macbeth and his wife do to make sure that Duncan's guards are blamed for his death? A) Make sure the guards are seen drinking. B) Use the guards' daggers to stab Duncan. C) Dress in guards' clothes to commit the murder. D) Convince the drunk guards that Duncan is evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use the guards' daggers to stab Duncan. 2. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower? A) Polonius. B) Gertrude. C) Horatio. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polonius. 3. "When you durst do it, then you were a man" A) The Witches. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Porter. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 4. The fact that Scotland is involved in a war is an example of which function of tragedy's plot structure A) Rising action. B) Exposition. C) Climax. D) Prologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 5. What news does Ross bring to Macbeth in Act I, Scene 3? A) The army has just lost the battle with the Norwegians. B) Lady Macbeth has had a son. C) Macbeth now holds the title of the Thane of Cawdor. D) The Thane of Glamis has been killed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth now holds the title of the Thane of Cawdor. 6. Who wrote the poem 'Defence of Lucknow'? A) Browning. B) Swinburne. C) Tennyson. D) Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swinburne. 7. Which apparition told Macbeth to "Beware Macduff" ? A) 8 kings that look like Banquo. B) Bloody Child. C) Crowned Child with Tree. D) Armed Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Armed Head. 8. Malcolm at first refuses Macduff's help because he ..... A) Does not want to be king. B) Knows Macduff's wife has been killed. C) Does not trust him. D) Has no money. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Does not trust him. 9. What does this scene show us about Macbeth? A) That he is a monster. B) That he is a sympathetic character. C) That he is allied with Macduff. D) That he is still under Lady Macbeth's control. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That he is a monster. 10. Where was Duncan and previous Scottish kings buried? A) Colmekill. B) Scone. C) Inverness. D) Dunsinane Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colmekill. 11. Hecate is annoyed with the witches because A) They have been bothering Macbeth. B) She has been left out oftheir mischief with Macbeth. C) They have met with LadyMacbeth. D) She is always annoyedwith everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She has been left out oftheir mischief with Macbeth. 12. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and..... A) Helena. B) Celia. C) Margaret. D) Emilia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Margaret. 13. Why does Macbeth believe he is invincible against other men? A) He has special armor the witches gave to him as a gift. B) Because he was told no man born from a woman could hurt him. C) He drank a special potion the witches gave him to protect him. D) Because Satan is on his side. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he was told no man born from a woman could hurt him. 14. "And, for an earnest of greater honour, / He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor:/In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!/ For it is thine." A) Ross. B) Lennox. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ross. 15. Who tells Macduff that his family has been murdered? A) Donalbain. B) Macbeth. C) Ross. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ross. 16. Which of the following myths does not figure in The Waste Land? A) Oedipus. B) Philomela. C) Grail Legend of Fisher King. D) Sysyphus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sysyphus. 17. Which Witch told Banquo that he would father a long line of kings? A) The First Witch. B) The Second Witch. C) The Third Witch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Third Witch. 18. Where is Malcolm's army at before the attack? A) Burnam Forrest. B) Bernem Castle. C) Birnam Wood. D) Bornim Meadows. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birnam Wood. 19. What does Macbeth mean when he says, "Out, out, brief candle" ? A) Life is slow and meaningless. B) Life is short. C) Life is full of purpose. D) Life is good and full of light. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is short. 20. What was the weather like the night Duncan was killed? A) Calm and placid. B) Stormy and violent. C) Foggy and Ominous. D) A night like any other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stormy and violent. 21. "Sleek o'er your rugged looks;/Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight." A) Macduff. B) A murderer. C) Macbeth. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lady Macbeth. 22. Macduff's cousin; acts mostly as a messenger in the play A) Lennox. B) Angus. C) Banquo. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ross. 23. Macbeth isn't afraid of Macduff because he thinks A) Macduff ran away from the battle. B) Macduff has joined Macbeth's side. C) Macduff was killed along with his family. D) Macduff is of woman born. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff is of woman born. 24. Who said it? "But I must also feel it as a man" A) Macduff. B) Ross. C) Lady Macduff. D) Angus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 25. Fill in the missing word:'Unseam'd from the ..... to the chaps' A) Belly. B) Stomach. C) Nave. D) Gut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nave. 26. What gruesome item does one of the witches keep as a charm? A) A human toe. B) Human teeth strung on a thread and worn as a necklace. C) A shrunken head. D) A pilot's thumb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A pilot's thumb. 27. What is a direct result of the witches prophecy to Macbeth to "Beware Macduff? " A) Banquo is killed. B) Lady Macbeth kills herself. C) Macbeth is beheaded. D) Macbeth has Macduff's wife and children murdered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth has Macduff's wife and children murdered. 28. What does Lady Macbeth ask the guests to do after Macbeth has his "fits" ? A) Leave. B) Keep his fits secret. C) Continue enjoying the food. D) Pray for Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leave. 29. Duncan's funeral takes place at A) Scone. B) Iona. C) Ireland. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iona. 30. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the 'Cockney School of Poetry'? A) Tennyson. B) Lockhart. C) T. S. Eliot. D) Charles Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S. Eliot. 31. What is the name of the town where Shakespeare grew up? A) London. B) Scranton. C) Stratford upon Avon. D) Canterbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratford upon Avon. 32. Where is Macbeth's castle? A) Invenus. B) Inverness. C) Envyus. D) Enverneus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverness. 33. What symbolizes Macbeth's guilt after the murder of Duncan? A) The swords that he took with him. B) The clothes he wore while killing him. C) The knocking on the door. D) The blood on his hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The blood on his hands. 34. Malcolm pretends that he's lustful and greedy and evil when he meets with Macduff. Why does he do this? A) To make sure that his brother becomes king. B) To find out if Macduff is loyal. C) To fulfill the witches prophecy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To find out if Macduff is loyal. 35. King Duncan is upset with the original Thane of Cawdor because of his A) Cowardice. B) Greed. C) Incompetence. D) Betrayal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Betrayal. 36. "Were such things here as we do speak about? /Or have we eaten on the insane root/That takes the reason prisoner? " A) Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Banquo. D) Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Banquo. 37. The 4th apparition doesn't speak. What does it show Macbeth? A) A line of kings resembling Banquo. B) A crowned child holding a tre. C) An armed head. D) A bloody child. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A line of kings resembling Banquo. 38. Who does Duncan name the new Thane of Cawdor? A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Duncan. D) Thane of Cawdor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth. 39. Paraphrase the quote, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air" . (1.1.12-13) A) The witches are hovering through the air. B) The good can also be bad, and the bad can also be good. C) The point of being fair when someone is acting unfair to you. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The good can also be bad, and the bad can also be good. 40. Which of the following best describes Macbeth's feelings about the possible assassination of King Duncan? A) Great confidence. B) Disinterest. C) Determined ambition. D) Tortured ambivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tortured ambivalence. 41. Who says the following words "If we should fail" ? A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) King Duncan. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 42. Which sense does the following quotation appeal to? This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest. A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Touch. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Touch. 43. When do the witches plan to meet Macbeth? A) In the middle of the battle. B) When the battle begins. C) They don't plan to meet him. D) When the battle's over. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When the battle's over. 44. What does Lady Macbeth compare her son to? A) A bird. B) A hunter. C) A cousin. D) A traitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bird. 45. Why does Lady Macbeth say she didn't kill the king herself? A) She needed to see if Macbeth was man enough to do it. B) She abhors violence. C) She tried but he overpowered her. D) He looked like her father in his sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He looked like her father in his sleep. 46. What is the difference between Macbeth's first murders and the murder of Macduff's family? A) Political gain. B) Silence an enemy. C) Revenge. D) Out of spite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Out of spite. 47. How is Macbeth acting immediately after the King's death (before Macduff arrives)? A) Relieved that the murder is finally over. B) Nervous and distressed at what he'd done. C) Angry that Lady Macbeth didn't murder Duncan herself. D) Excited that he will soon be king. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous and distressed at what he'd done. 48. Where does Banquo appear to Macbeth? A) At banquet and witches' cavern. B) In his bedroom. C) On the battlefield. D) At banquet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At banquet and witches' cavern. 49. The first apparition-which tells Macbeth to beware of Macduff-looks like what? A) The child with a crown and a tree branch. B) A head wearing a helmet. C) A bloody child. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A head wearing a helmet. 50. After Macbeth killed Duncan, he returned to Lady Macbeth and told her he thought he: A) Saw Duncan smiling at him after the deed was done. B) Heard voices accusing him of murder. C) Tasted blood in his own mouth. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heard voices accusing him of murder. 51. During which period London theaterrs remained closed on account of the plague? A) 1595. B) 1593. C) 1594. D) 1592. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1593. 52. Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton? A) Paradise Lost. B) Lycidas. C) Areopagitica. D) Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradise Lost. 53. Which senses do the following lines appeal to? This avariceSticks deeper, grows with more pernicious rootThan summer-seeming lust, and it hath beenThe sword of our slain kings. A) Hearing and touch. B) Taste and sight. C) Sight and smell. D) Sight and touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sight and touch. 54. What does Duncan call Macbeth when he hears Macbeth has defeated Macdonwald A) "Valiant Cousin! Worthy Gentleman". B) "Nobless' Thane of Cawdor". C) "My Precious Lord!". D) "Treacherous rebel! Despised rogue!". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Valiant Cousin! Worthy Gentleman". 55. Lady Macduff misses her last chance for escape, which comes when ..... A) An anonymous messenger warns her that trouble is on the way. B) Ross stays to fight the murderers. C) Her son suggests a plan to run away. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An anonymous messenger warns her that trouble is on the way. 56. How is Macbeth feeling here? A) Angry that Lady Macbeth didn't help him. B) Curious to why he'd forgotten to say a prayer. C) Worried and anxious about his sin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worried and anxious about his sin. 57. To be given a better job A) To be promoted. B) To be advance. C) To be ascend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be promoted. 58. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain's Men Theatrical Company as a: A) Actor and playwright. B) Playwright and poet. C) Playwright and writer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playwright and writer. 59. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad? A) Work Without Hope. B) Frost at Midnight. C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. D) Youth and Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 60. When were performances held at The Globe Theatre? A) During daylight hours. B) During daytime and nighttime hours. C) Depends on the play. D) Evening so everyone could attend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) During daylight hours. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books