This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Macbeth – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This character breaks the news to Macduff about his family being slaughtered. A) Ross. B) Malcolm. C) Siward. D) King Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ross. 2. The porter provides comic relief by A) Being drunk from the night before. B) Pretending he is opening hell's gate for the devil. C) Lecturing on the effects of alcohol and sex. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. At the beginning of Act II, Macbeth and Banquo have a conversation. It is clear that Macbeth is lying when he says that he A) Wants Banquo's support. B) Never thinks about the witches. C) Was unprepared to entertain Duncan. D) Dreams about the witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Never thinks about the witches. 4. What IS NOT one of the pronouncements of the apparitions? A) Macbeth should fear Macduff. B) No one born of woman can harm Macbeth. C) Macbeth will have a line of 8 sons who will be kings. D) Macbeth will be fine until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth will have a line of 8 sons who will be kings. 5. Macbeth's evil side is associated with A) Royalty. B) The Color Blue. C) Night & Darkness. D) Daggers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Night & Darkness. 6. How is the Porter speaking of death when he appears in the play? A) He is weeping about his dead realtives. B) He is joking around and acting like the gatekeeper of the underworld. C) He is delivering a serious sermon. D) He is telling tales of how they all are damned. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is joking around and acting like the gatekeeper of the underworld. 7. Who says the following lines, "Out, damned spot; out I say" (5.1.27-30) A) Lady Macbeth. B) Macbeth. C) Macduff. D) Lennox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 8. In Scene 6, line 24, Duncan's reference to Lady Macbeth as a "noble hostess" is an example of dramatic irony because the audience knows that A) She wants him to leave. B) She plans to murder him. C) He arranged to see her hastily. D) He criticized her to other characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She plans to murder him. 9. How does Macbeth persuade the two murderers to kill Banquo? A) He promises to make them officials in his court. B) He offers them a large amount of money. C) He guarantees that they will not be punished for the murder. D) He reminds them that Banquo has caused all their troubles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He reminds them that Banquo has caused all their troubles. 10. Who leaves Scotland to join Malcolm in England? A) Macduff. B) Ross. C) Lennox. D) Donalbain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macduff. 11. Lady Macbeth does not kill Duncan because A) She has no dagger. B) She wants Macbeth to do it. C) She thinks Duncan looks like her father. D) She is afraid she will get caught in the act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She thinks Duncan looks like her father. 12. Who said it? "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty" A) Lady Macbeth. B) Lady Macduff. C) Macbeth. D) Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth. 13. Who is sentenced to death in Act I? A) Duncan. B) The Thane of Cawdor. C) Ross. D) The Captain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Thane of Cawdor. 14. In the last scene, Macbeth fights to the death because he A) Is given no other choice. B) Thinks that Macduff can be easily defeated. C) Does not believe Macduff's claim about his birth. D) Prefers an honorable defeat to a humiliating surrender. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prefers an honorable defeat to a humiliating surrender. 15. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in? A) Mexico. B) Italy. C) France. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mexico. 16. Who says the following? Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty! A) Macbeth. B) Lady Macbeth. C) Duncan. D) Ross. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth. 17. Duncan's guards are killed by ..... A) MacBeth. B) Donalbain. C) Malcolm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MacBeth. 18. In Shakespeare's time, a "nurse" was ..... A) Someone who cared for the sick. B) A nanny. C) A dental assistant. D) Someone who nursed your children for you. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A nanny. 19. The British government declared their concurrence in the institution of a tribunal to arbitrate upon claims for compensation.What does arbitrate mean? A) To plant trees. B) To celebrate. C) To pay damanges. D) To decide a dispute. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To decide a dispute. 20. The bloody Child apparition symbolized A) A naturally born child will not kill Macbeth. B) Macduffs family will be murdered. C) Macbeth will never have children. D) Lady Macbeth will die in childbirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A naturally born child will not kill Macbeth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMacbeth Quiz 1Macbeth Quiz 2Macbeth Quiz 3Macbeth Quiz 4Macbeth Quiz 5Macbeth Quiz 6Macbeth Quiz 7Macbeth Quiz 8Macbeth Quiz 9Macbeth Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books