Macbeth Quiz 46 (20 MCQs)

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1. What do Malcolm and Donalbain NOT agree to do after learning of their father's murder?

Correct Answer: C) Kill Macbeth.

2. Tracts for the Times relates to?

Correct Answer: A) The Oxford Movement.

3. Why was Macduff "able" to defeat Macbeth?

Correct Answer: A) He was born via c-section.

4. Shakespeare's father died in:

Correct Answer: B) 1601.

5. Macbeth's evil deeds have a ..... effect on Scotland.

Correct Answer: D) Pernicious.

6. There are 3 apparitions at the boiling cauldron, which is not one of them?

Correct Answer: C) Fleance marching towards Dunsinane.

7. Who jokes that he works at "hell's gate? "

Correct Answer: C) Porter.

8. Who do the witches meet with the morning after Banquo's murder?

Correct Answer: C) Hecate.

9. Which nation's army invades Scotland at the end of the play?

Correct Answer: C) England.

10. When the Three Witches meet Macbeth, who is there with him?

Correct Answer: D) Banquo.

11. Who is helping Macduff after he leaves to go to England?

Correct Answer: D) Ross.

12. What would we consider unusual about the actors in Shakespeare's plays?

Correct Answer: C) They were all males-boys to men.

13. What disturbance of the natural order does the Old Man say he has heard about?

Correct Answer: D) Duncan's horses eating each other.

14. How was Macduff born?

Correct Answer: C) Caesarean Section.

15. Why does Lady Macbeth drug the servants in Scene 2?

Correct Answer: B) She wants them to sleep while they kill King Duncan.

16. What does Macduff promise that he is not when speaking to Malcolm?

Correct Answer: C) A traitor.

17. Which lord tries to sound out his friends about Macbeth's behaviour and where Macduff has gone?

Correct Answer: B) Lennox.

18. Why did Shakespeare write Macbeth?

Correct Answer: C) For King James I of England.

19. Who is commonly known as 'Pip' in Great Expectations?

Correct Answer: C) Philip Pip.

20. Lady Macbeth says she keeps all promises she makes, and says she would even kill her ..... if she had vowed to do so.

Correct Answer: C) Sister.