This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Who was not "of woman born" ? A) Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Lennox. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 4. Scottish general; suspicious of Macbeth A) Macduff. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 5. "The better part of valour is discretion" occurs in Shakespeare's? A) Hamlet. B) Twelfth Night. C) The Tempest. D) Henry IV, Pt I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry IV, Pt I. 6. What is NOT 1 of the 3 relationships that binds Macbeth and Duncan? A) Thane. B) Kinsman. C) Host. D) Brother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brother. 7. Who will be the new king of Scotland? A) Macduff. B) Fleance. C) Malcolm. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malcolm. 8. 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. 9. When was Macbeth written? A) 1604. B) 1605. C) 1606. D) 1931. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1606. 10. 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. 11. Who will lead the attack against Macbeth? A) Banquo. B) Macduff. C) Siward. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siward. 12. 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. 13. Who is made heir to Duncan's throne? A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Malcom. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malcom. 14. 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. 15. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of 'love and loss' A) Tennyson. B) Browning. C) Swinburne. D) D.G. Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D.G. Rossetti. 16. The style of Paradise Lost is? A) More Latin than most poems. B) More spontaneous than thought out. C) More satirical than spontaneous. D) More dramatic than lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More Latin than most poems. 17. When a character says something on stage that only the audience hears is called a(n) A) Monologue. B) Speech. C) Aside. D) Private remark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 18. 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. 19. Where is Malcolm at the end of Act III? A) Scotland. B) England. C) Spain. D) Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England. 20. Who said: "Out, damned spot! Out I say!" A) Lady Macbeth. B) The doctor. C) Malcolm. D) Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 8Macbeth Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books