Macbeth Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a direct result of the witches prophecy to Macbeth to "Beware Macduff? "

Correct Answer: D) Macbeth has Macduff's wife and children murdered.

2. What does Lady Macbeth ask the guests to do after Macbeth has his "fits" ?

Correct Answer: A) Leave.

3. Duncan's funeral takes place at

Correct Answer: B) Iona.

4. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the 'Cockney School of Poetry'?

Correct Answer: D) T. S. Eliot.

5. What is the name of the town where Shakespeare grew up?

Correct Answer: D) Stratford upon Avon.

6. Where is Macbeth's castle?

Correct Answer: C) Inverness.

7. What symbolizes Macbeth's guilt after the murder of Duncan?

Correct Answer: D) The blood on his hands.

8. Macbeth is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Tragedy.

9. Hecate is .....

Correct Answer: C) The goddess of witchcraft, ghosts, and magic.

10. Malcolm pretends that he's lustful and greedy and evil when he meets with Macduff. Why does he do this?

Correct Answer: B) To find out if Macduff is loyal.

11. King Duncan is upset with the original Thane of Cawdor because of his

Correct Answer: A) Betrayal.

12. "Were such things here as we do speak about? /Or have we eaten on the insane root/That takes the reason prisoner? "

Correct Answer: C) Banquo.

13. Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table?

Correct Answer: B) Banquo's Ghost.

14. The 4th apparition doesn't speak. What does it show Macbeth?

Correct Answer: D) A line of kings resembling Banquo.

15. Who does Duncan name the new Thane of Cawdor?

Correct Answer: B) Macbeth.

16. Paraphrase the quote, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air" . (1.1.12-13)

Correct Answer: B) The good can also be bad, and the bad can also be good.

17. Which of the following best describes Macbeth's feelings about the possible assassination of King Duncan?

Correct Answer: B) Tortured ambivalence.

18. Who says the following words "If we should fail" ?

Correct Answer: B) Macbeth.

19. What is the REAL reason Macbeth kills Duncan's grooms/guards?

Correct Answer: A) They could have contradicted his story for who killed Duncan.

20. Which sense does the following quotation appeal to? This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest.

Correct Answer: C) Touch.