This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Macbeth – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 47 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." The above lines have been taken from? A) The Waste Land. B) Tintern Abbey. C) The Second Coming. D) Prayer for My Daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Second Coming. 2. How does Lady Macbeth feel about how Macbeth carried out the murder? A) She is indifferent. B) She is revolted that someone she loves could commit cold-blooded murder. C) She is ashamed by how scared he acts throughout the ordeal. D) She is filled with pride over his deed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is ashamed by how scared he acts throughout the ordeal. 3. Which of the following is Golding's first novel? A) The Inheritors. B) Lord of the Flies. C) Pincher Martin. D) Pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord of the Flies. 4. Why do the two murderers agree to carry out Macbeth's plan in Scene 1? A) Difficult lives have made them violent men. B) They think they will kill Duncan's murderer. C) Macbeth has promised that they will rule. D) They want to impress Lady Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Difficult lives have made them violent men. 5. Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in "Great Expectations" ? A) She was poor. B) She was arrogant. C) Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom. D) She was unwilling to marry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was arrogant. 6. "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Macbeth" was in: A) 1606. B) 1607. C) 1608. D) 1609. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1606. 7. What is Macbeth's downfall? A) Anger. B) Ambition. C) Love. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambition. 8. Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "Look like the innocent ....., but be the ..... under't." A) Stone insects. B) Flower serpent. C) Soil beast. D) Child doormat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flower serpent. 9. Who is the porter pretending to let into "hell" ? A) People that Macbeth has invited to stay. B) Traitors to the king from across Scotland. C) Tradesmen who have cheated him before. D) People who have done wrong things in business. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People who have done wrong things in business. 10. Which apparition/prophecy comes true when Malcolm's army cuts down trees to hide their numbers? A) Fear Macduff. B) No man borne of woman will harm Macbeth. C) Macbeth will never be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to fight. D) Banquo's son is crowned the new king. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth will never be defeated until Birnam Wood marches to fight. 11. Macbeth shows his ambition and curiosity about becoming king in the third scene when he ..... A) Questions the witches about the prophecies. B) Listens to Banquo describe the witches. C) Invites Duncan to come to his home. D) Defeats many people in battle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Questions the witches about the prophecies. 12. What does Banquo tell Macbeth he will be doing before the feast? A) Riding his horse. B) Singing. C) Going to a play. D) Shopping at the market. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Riding his horse. 13. The Macbeths plan is to A) Poison both Duncan and the guards. B) Trick Macduff and Banquo into killing the King. C) Pushing the king out a window and blaming Malcolm and Donalbain. D) Getting the guards drunk and framing them by using their weapons to kill the king. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Getting the guards drunk and framing them by using their weapons to kill the king. 14. Macbeth's soliloquy beginning "Is this a dagger which I see before me" shows him to be A) Disturbed by what Banquoknows. B) Horrified of the deed he isabout to commit. C) Angry that he has let hiswife persuade him to kill Duncan. D) Genuinely sorry that he mustkill the king. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horrified of the deed he isabout to commit. 15. The poetic method that Shakespeare employs in his dramas is which of the following A) Trochaic octameter. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Rhyming couplets. D) Inverted prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic pentameter. 16. The town of New Philadelphia was so oblivious to these frequent winter gifts from Mother Nature that snow caused not a hitch in the local activities. A) Conscious; aware. B) Unmindful; forgetful. C) Over populated; abundant with people. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unmindful; forgetful. 17. Devises the murder of King Duncan A) The witches. B) Macbeth. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Lady Macduff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 18. What do the witches predict for Banquo? A) He will be king. B) He will be betrayed by a friend. C) His descendants will be kings. D) He will be victorious in battle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His descendants will be kings. 19. When Macbeth says "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren scepter in my gripe ..... " he means A) He will be prosecuted for his crimes. B) He and Lady Macbeth have many children. C) He has no male children. D) He has no right to be king. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He has no male children. 20. The witches add wool of bat, tongue of dog, and other ..... ingredients to their caldron. A) Credulous. B) Judicious. C) Avarice. D) Sundry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sundry. ← 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