This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Act II takes place in ..... A) A battlefield. B) MacBeth's castle. C) The witches' shack. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MacBeth's castle. 2. How does Lady Macbeth act towards Duncan when he arrives at the castle? A) Sweet and shy. B) Cold and harsh. C) Confused and welcoming. D) Warm and inviting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warm and inviting. 3. What is Lady Macbeth washing off of her hands? A) Soap. B) Mashed 'taters. C) Metaphorical blood. D) Bird poop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphorical blood. 4. What are the witches doing as the scene opens? A) Summoning the ghost of Banquo to them. B) Luring Macbeth to their cauldron. C) Preparing a charm and chanting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preparing a charm and chanting. 5. During the Elizabethan period, theater companies began to A) Travel more. B) Use permanent performance spaces. C) Use actors who were usually members of the nobility. D) Cast men to play women and women to play men. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use permanent performance spaces. 6. "We have slashed the snake but not killed it." A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) Malcolm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 7. Lady Macbeth believes in order to carry out the murder, she has to ..... A) Get drunk. B) Hire a mercenary killer. C) Get the witches to help her. D) Act like a man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act like a man. 8. What does Lady Macduff tell her son about Macduff? A) He is dead. B) He will be home soon. C) He loves him. D) He is in the hospital. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is dead. 9. Which of Shakespeare's play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television? A) Taming of the Shrew. B) The two Noble Kinsmen. C) Troilus and Cressida. D) Cymbeline. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The two Noble Kinsmen. 10. Who coined the phrase 'Egotistical Sublime'? A) William Wordsworth. B) P.B Shelley. C) S. T. Coleridge. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. T. Coleridge. 11. What does Banquo suspect at the beginning of the Act? A) That Macebth will not be a good king. B) That Macbeth wants him dead. C) That Macbeth killed Duncan for the throne. D) That Macbeth is planning an invasion of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That Macbeth killed Duncan for the throne. 12. What effect do these short, quick statements have? A) Makes the mood seem calm and serene. B) Makes the characters seem nervous and jittery. C) Makes the allusions even more obvious. D) Makes the flow choppy and more difficult to read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Makes the characters seem nervous and jittery. 13. Identify the speaker of the following lines:"What hands are here? ha! They pluck out mine eyes." A) Fleance. B) Macbeth. C) Macduff. D) Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macbeth. 14. Hecate was angry with The Witches for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: A) They gave Macbeth the prophecy. B) They interfered with Fate. C) She (Hecate) was not included. D) They did not pray to her before delivering the prophecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They did not pray to her before delivering the prophecy. 15. Lady Macbeth demonstrates that she is shocked by Duncan's death by A) Screaming out loud. B) Pretending to faint. C) Staying in her bedroom. D) Asking for help. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pretending to faint. 16. Why does Lady Macbeth choose not to kill King Duncan herself? A) She thinks the king, as he sleeps, looks like her father. B) She thinks Macbeth should do it to prove he is a strong leader. C) She does not believe a woman should kill a king. D) The witches said she should not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She thinks the king, as he sleeps, looks like her father. 17. How do Malcolm and Donalbain react to their father's murder? A) They kill the guards. B) They cry and curse his murderer. C) Malcolm claims the throne, and Donalbain vows loyalty. D) They flee, fearing for their own safety. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They flee, fearing for their own safety. 18. Why doesn't Lady Macbeth want to kill Duncan? A) He looks too much like her father. B) She doesn't want to lose her soul. C) She hates the sight of blood. D) She's not strong enough to stab him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He looks too much like her father. 19. The title of Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus' means? A) Religious Scripture. B) Seaside Resort. C) Tailor Repatched. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tailor Repatched. 20. In Act V, which of the following represents the resolution of the plot? A) Lady Macbeth dies. B) Macbeth kills Young Siward. C) Macbeth vows to fight. D) Macduff kills Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macduff kills 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