Macbeth Quiz 20 (20 MCQs)

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1. After reading her husband's letter:

Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth prepares to kill Duncan.

2. What do stage directions give the reader?

Correct Answer: B) Information about what is taking place on the stage.

3. How many witches are in Act I Scene i?

Correct Answer: C) 3.

4. A major purpose of Act IV is to foreshadow events related to .....

Correct Answer: A) Macbeth's downfall.

5. Lady Macbeth asks spirits to help her

Correct Answer: D) Be as cruel as she needs to be.

6. At the beginning of Act 3, what feeling does Banquo express about the witches' prophecies?

Correct Answer: D) A hope that they prove true for him as they have for Macbeth.

7. Who was not "of woman born" ?

Correct Answer: A) Macduff.

8. Scottish general; suspicious of Macbeth

Correct Answer: A) Macduff.

9. "The better part of valour is discretion" occurs in Shakespeare's?

Correct Answer: D) Henry IV, Pt I.

10. What is NOT 1 of the 3 relationships that binds Macbeth and Duncan?

Correct Answer: D) Brother.

11. Who will be the new king of Scotland?

Correct Answer: C) Malcolm.

12. At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country?

Correct Answer: A) Norway.

13. When was Macbeth written?

Correct Answer: C) 1606.

14. What happened to Lady Macbeth?

Correct Answer: B) She takes her own life.

15. Who will lead the attack against Macbeth?

Correct Answer: C) Siward.

16. How are Duncan and Malcolm related?

Correct Answer: B) Malcolm is Duncan's son.

17. Who is made heir to Duncan's throne?

Correct Answer: C) Malcom.

18. What is the main message of Macbeth in Act 5, scene 1, which includes Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene?

Correct Answer: B) A guilty conscience is not easily mended.

19. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of 'love and loss'

Correct Answer: D) D.G. Rossetti.

20. The style of Paradise Lost is?

Correct Answer: A) More Latin than most poems.