This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Macbeth – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do the witches predict in Act 1 scene 3 for Macbeth? A) He will be king. B) His children will be king. C) Beware Macduff. D) The woods will move. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He will be king. 2. Why is Lady MACDUFF upset when the reader first meets her? A) She is King Duncan's sister and misses him. B) Her husband left her and her child defenseless. C) Macduff was killed by Macbeth. D) She knows that Macbeth is going to attack her town of Fife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her husband left her and her child defenseless. 3. What do Macbeth and Banquo see that is supernatural? A) A big storm. B) Three witches. C) A bloody battle. D) A letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three witches. 4. In Scene 5, lines 13-14, Lady Macbeth says Macbeth's nature is "too full o' th' milk of human kindness." She means that he lacks A) Enough cruelty to kill the king. B) Respect for her opinions and feelings. C) Ambition to be greater than he is. D) The qualities to be a good king. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enough cruelty to kill the king. 5. The theme of Tennyson's Poem 'The Princess' is? A) Queen Victoria's coronation. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Women's Education and Rights. D) Rise of Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women's Education and Rights. 6. William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after? A) Lawrence's father. B) Lawrence's brother. C) Lawrence himself. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 7. Throughout Act I, Macbeth's plans and actions seem to be motivated most of all by A) His lust for wealth. B) The support of the witches. C) His wife's encouragement. D) The advice of Banquo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His wife's encouragement. 8. In ..... year Shakespeare bought the largest house in Stratford, called New place: A) 1595. B) 1996. C) 1597. D) 15598. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1597. 9. When the actor talks directly to the audience ..... A) Aside. B) Dialogue. C) Comedy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 10. Macduff says that Macbeth's actions show his "boundless intemperance." Intemperance means ..... A) Exhaustion. B) Lack of restraint. C) Terrible guilt. D) Unfairness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lack of restraint. 11. Who was the King that Malcolm went to stay with in England? A) James I & VI. B) Edward the confessor. C) Aethelbert the unready. D) Charles I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward the confessor. 12. What do the stage directions indicate about what happens to Macbeth's body? A) His body will be fed to the birds. B) His head is decapitated. C) He is stabbed in the back. D) He is stabbed in the side. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His head is decapitated. 13. Which of the following symbols in Scene ii signals that King Duncan's murder has been accomplished? A) The knocking at the south entry. B) The words spoken by Malcolm and Donalbain. C) The owl's scream and the crickets' cries. D) The voice Macbeth hears. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The owl's scream and the crickets' cries. 14. The phrase 'Pathetic fallacy' is coined by? A) Milton. B) Coleridge. C) Carlyle. D) John Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Ruskin. 15. Macbeth was written in 1605 in response to what event in England? A) The Magna Carta. B) The Gunpowder Plot. C) The Beheading of Anne Boleyn. D) The Death of Elizabeth I. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Gunpowder Plot. 16. "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." The line given above occurs in A) Hamlet. B) Henry IV, Pt I. C) The Tempest. D) Twelfth Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 17. Ross tells Lady Macduff to A) Pull herself together and trust her husband. B) Leave her husband and save herself. C) Join the fight against Macbeth and become a soldier. D) Give her son over to the army and let him fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pull herself together and trust her husband. 18. Who is the first person to discover Duncan's body? A) Banquo. B) Macduff. C) Ross. D) The Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 19. The voice that tells Macbeth "Sleep no more! Macbeth has murdered sleep!" is saying that A) Someone has witnessed Duncan's murder. B) Duncan will never awaken from his "sleep". C) Macbeth murdered Duncan in his sleep. D) Macbeth will never again have a clear conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Macbeth will never again have a clear conscience. 20. This monarch was ruling England when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth: A) Richard I. B) James I. C) Henry IV. D) George IV. 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