Macbeth Quiz 18 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the son tell his mother when he is stabbed?

Correct Answer: C) "He has killed me, mother.".

2. S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of?

Correct Answer: D) Royal Society of Literature.

3. When Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth in Act III, Scene iv, "We are yet but young in deed, " he means that they are .....

Correct Answer: B) New to the ways of crime.

4. What is the name of Macbeth's servant?

Correct Answer: A) Seyton.

5. In Scene 3, Shakespeare most likely has the witches speak in rhyme instead of blank verse to make their comments sound

Correct Answer: B) Childish.

6. King Duncan decides to make Macbeth Thane of Cawdor because .....

Correct Answer: B) Macbeth fought heroically for him.

7. What is Lady Macbeth trying to scrub away when the doctor sees her?

Correct Answer: C) Imaginary blood on her arms.

8. Who said it? "My sword will talk for me."

Correct Answer: A) Macduff.

9. Hamlet's famous speech 'To be, or not to be; that is the question' occurs in?

Correct Answer: D) Act III, Scene I.

10. In Act IV when the witch says, "Something wicked this way comes, " you know that .....

Correct Answer: A) Even the witches now consider Macbeth evil.

11. The original Thane of Cawdor is labelled as a

Correct Answer: A) Traitor.

12. Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth by:

Correct Answer: A) Telling him that he is not a man.

13. Based on line 2, which of the following statements would Macbeth agree with?

Correct Answer: B) Life is dull, long, and tiresome.

14. Where does Donalbain flee after Duncan's death?

Correct Answer: A) Ireland.

15. What is weird about the night that Macbeth kills Duncan?

Correct Answer: B) The earth shakes, and his horses eat each other.

16. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as?

Correct Answer: C) Ottava Rima.

17. Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?

Correct Answer: A) Twelfth Night.

18. What is Macbeth's plan for killing Banquo and Fleance?

Correct Answer: C) Hire murderers to waylay them in the dark.

19. In the second scene, what does King Duncan order Ross to do?

Correct Answer: C) Tell Macbeth that he is the new thane of Cawdor.

20. Before becoming Thane of Cawdor Macbeth is Thane of Glamis, but what is a Thane?

Correct Answer: B) A rank of Scottish nobility.