Macbeth Quiz 55 (20 MCQs)

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1. Name the speaker: "My hands are the same color as yours ..... but I'd be ashamed to have a heart as white as yours!"

Correct Answer: B) Lady Macbeth.

2. Which of the following play was written in 1601?

Correct Answer: B) Hamlet.

3. "Stars, hide your fires;/ Let not light see my black and deep desires."

Correct Answer: C) Macbeth.

4. Why did the first witch want to kill the Sailor?

Correct Answer: B) His wife didn't share her chestnuts.

5. Why is Macbeth crowned king after Duncan is murdered and not Duncan's sons?

Correct Answer: D) Duncan's sons have run away and seem guilty.

6. The witches are sometimes referred to as the Weird Sisters. "Weird" comes from an Anglo-Saxon term, "wyrd" which means .....

Correct Answer: D) Fate.

7. Who is Macdonwald?

Correct Answer: D) He is the leader of the rebel forces, who are fighting against Scotland.

8. Complete the quotation: "Upon my head they placed a ..... crown. And put a ..... scepter in my gripe."

Correct Answer: B) Fruitless barren.

9. Why would Lady Macbeth want to overrule Macbeth and make him a murderer?

Correct Answer: B) So she becomes Queen and rules.

10. Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of?

Correct Answer: C) Keats.

11. How does Lady Macbeth cover for Macbeth at the banquet?

Correct Answer: A) She says that he's behaved this way since he was young.

12. Make all our trumpets speak! Give them all breath, those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.What does clamorous mean?

Correct Answer: B) Loud; noisy.

13. Which forest appears to move?

Correct Answer: A) Birnam Wood.

14. Who is called a bird, a monkey, and an egg and then is killed when advice is not heeded?

Correct Answer: D) Boy Macduff.

15. "To be or not to be that is the question" , is famous line of which of Shakespeare's plays?

Correct Answer: C) Hamlet.

16. Joe Gargery is Pip's?

Correct Answer: C) Guardian.

17. What does the beginning of Scene 3 offer the audience (when the Porter is answering the door)?

Correct Answer: C) Comic relief.

18. Macbeth seeks out the witches in order to:

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

19. Which of the following is NOT a greeting to Macbeth from the witches?

Correct Answer: B) All hail Macbeth, Prince of Cumberland.

20. When MacBeth talks nervously about the murders, Lady MacBeth tells him to .....

Correct Answer: A) Have some courage.