This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Macbeth – Quiz 50 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macbeth Quiz 50 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many murderers show up to kill Banquo and Fleance? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 2. Who said, "Fair is foul and foul is fair." A) Macbeth. B) Banquo. C) Ross. D) Witches. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Witches. 3. What behavior is Lady Macbeth exhibiting that is worrying everyone? A) Sleep walking. B) Cursing. C) Using magic. D) Dancing in the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleep walking. 4. When Lady Macbeth says, "The Thane of Fife had a wife ..... " who is she referring to? A) Lady Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Lennox's wife. D) Duncan's wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lady Macduff. 5. Macbeth is trying to imply that he is like what mythic hero? A) Hercules. B) Orpheus. C) Triton. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hercules. 6. Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work? A) Charles Dickens. B) W. M. Thackeray. C) Graham Greene. D) D. H. Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graham Greene. 7. What is Malcolm's goal at the end of the play once he is hailed as king of Scotland? A) To make his thanes into earls as a reward for them. B) To ensure that Lady Macbeth is executed as well. C) To prepare a proper funeral for young Siward. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make his thanes into earls as a reward for them. 8. In Act V, when Macbeth says "Out, out, brief candle!" the word candle refers to ..... A) Death. B) Life. C) The blood on his hands. D) His crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 9. What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth when she says "look the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath" ? A) Trust his generals. B) Look innocent when your heart is full of evil. C) Trust no one. D) Confide in his king. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Look innocent when your heart is full of evil. 10. In Act 1 Scene 1, where do the three witches plan to meet Macbeth? A) 'On a mountain'. B) 'Upon the heath'. C) 'On the heath'. D) 'Upon a hill'. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'Upon the heath'. 11. What does Lady Macbeth need to do to summon Macbeth when she has got the guards drunk? A) Screech like an owl. B) Come and fetch him. C) Ring a bell. D) Send a servant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ring a bell. 12. W.B.Yeats used the phrase 'the artifice of eternity' in his poem? A) Sailing to Byzantium. B) Byzantium. C) The Second Coming. D) Leda and the Swan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sailing to Byzantium. 13. Who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd" ? A) Macbeth. B) Macduff. C) Macdonwald. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Macduff. 14. What does the voice that Macbeth keeps hearing tell him he will no longer be able to do after killing Duncan? A) Sleep. B) Eat. C) Love. D) Kill. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sleep. 15. Who does Macduff think killed the King? A) Malcolm and Donalbain. B) Macbeth. C) Lady Macbeth. D) The servants/guards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malcolm and Donalbain. 16. In Act IV scene ii, Lady Macduff calls her husband a traitor because ..... A) She thinks Macduff supports Macbeth. B) Macbeth considers Macduff a traitor. C) She knows Macduff is raising an army against Macbeth. D) She feels Macduff has abandoned her and her children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She feels Macduff has abandoned her and her children. 17. King Duncan thinks of Macbeth as A) A loyal but overly ambitioussoldier. B) A man with a dangerouslyambitious wife. C) A hero to whom he owes greatthanks. D) A brave but indecisivesoldier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hero to whom he owes greatthanks. 18. How does the army fighting Macbeth conceal itself? A) It hides on the roof of Inverness. B) It uses tree branches. C) It wears green. D) It crouches behind cattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It uses tree branches. 19. Who has promised Malcolm thousand of troops to help defeat Macbeth? A) Siward. B) King Edward. C) Ross. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Edward. 20. Which unnatural event (occurring after the murder) foreshadows a coming conflict among the people of Scotland? A) The Falcon and the Owl. B) The Darkness. C) The chill in the Castle. D) Duncan's horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duncan's horses. ← 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