Macbeth Quiz 50 (20 MCQs)

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1. In Act 1 Scene 1, where do the three witches plan to meet Macbeth?
2. What does Lady Macbeth need to do to summon Macbeth when she has got the guards drunk?
3. W.B.Yeats used the phrase 'the artifice of eternity' in his poem?
4. Who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd" ?
5. What does the voice that Macbeth keeps hearing tell him he will no longer be able to do after killing Duncan?
6. Who does Macduff think killed the King?
7. In Act IV scene ii, Lady Macduff calls her husband a traitor because .....
8. King Duncan thinks of Macbeth as
9. How does the army fighting Macbeth conceal itself?
10. Who has promised Malcolm thousand of troops to help defeat Macbeth?
11. Which unnatural event (occurring after the murder) foreshadows a coming conflict among the people of Scotland?
12. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
13. Which of the following novels has the sub-title 'A Novel Without a Hero'?
14. "When the hurly-burly's done, / When the battle's lost and won."
15. Which of the following is one of Macbeth's desires that showcases his need to be masculine?
16. "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-/Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, /Which smoked with bloody execution, like valor's minion carved out his bloody passage/Till he faced the slave."
17. In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side, called the Globe?
18. At the beginning of Act 3, how does Banquo feel about Macbeth?
19. How does Lady Macbeth save Macbeth from revealing his role in Duncan's death?
20. Macbeth says, "We have scorched the snake not kill'd it." means .....