Macbeth Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. When a character says something on stage that only the audience hears is called a(n)

Correct Answer: C) Aside.

2. In considering Macbeth a tragic hero, what is the best choice for his fatal flaw?

Correct Answer: A) His ambition and desire for power.

3. Where is Malcolm at the end of Act III?

Correct Answer: B) England.

4. Who said: "Out, damned spot! Out I say!"

Correct Answer: A) Lady Macbeth.

5. What causes Lady Macbeth to imagine blood on her hands at the end of the story?

Correct Answer: B) Guilt.

6. Who does Macbeth hire after Banquo leaves the castle?

Correct Answer: A) Murderers.

7. Where were Scottish kings, including Macbeth, crowned?

Correct Answer: C) Scone.

8. Who said, ""Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? "

Correct Answer: B) Macbeth.

9. How does Lady Macbeth react to her husband?

Correct Answer: B) She tells him not to think about it.

10. What does the ghost at the dinner banquet in Scene 4 cause Macbeth to do?

Correct Answer: C) Become agitated and upset.

11. To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? "The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom."

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

12. In Act II an animal noise is heard and frightens her. Which animal is this?

Correct Answer: B) Owl.

13. How does Lady Macbeth die?

Correct Answer: C) She took her own life.

14. How many people see Banquo's ghost at the banquet?

Correct Answer: A) One.

15. When the witch says, "Something wicked this way comes, " you know that

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

16. Why is Malcolm suspicious of Macduff?

Correct Answer: B) He is worried that Macduff will betray him to Macbeth.

17. What caused The Globe Theatre to close down?

Correct Answer: B) The Plague.

18. In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel's mother's name is?

Correct Answer: D) Emily.

19. Macbeth says, "I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnam ..... "

Correct Answer: D) Forest come to Dunsinane.

20. Paradise Lost shows an influence of?

Correct Answer: C) Christianity and the Renaissance.