Macbeth Acts IV and V Quiz

In response to Macbeth's questions, the witches....

• Tell him all and predict the course of the rest of his life

• call upon apparitions, who answer most of his questions but warn him not to probe deeply

• conjure up the ghost of a king who answers his questions.

Lady Macduff misses her last chance to escape when...

• A messenger warns her to leave

• her son suggests an escape plot

• Ross defends her husband's good character.

Malcolm pretends he's too wicked to be king in order to...

• Avoid the responsibilities of ruling Scotland
• determine where Macduff's loyalties lie.
• fulfill the witches' prophecies

After Malcolm tells Macduff that he told him those lies, to test his loyalty, he drops another surprise on him. That surprise is:

• He married Edward's daughter and will be a dad.
• Macbeth has called them home to negotiate a deal
• He has Siward and 10,000 soldiers at their disposal

When Ross joins Malcolm and Macduff in Scene 3, he says to Macduff, “Let not your ears despise my tongue forever, / Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound / That ever yet they heard.” He means

• don't listen to closely to what I am saying.

• I'm about to warn you about impending disaster.

• please do not hate me because I'm bringing bad news.

When Macduff receives the news of his family, Malcolm urges him to...

• Get angry and go after Macbeth

• Grieve peacefully

• Not to return to Scotland

Who actually murders Lady Macduff and her children?

• Lady Macbeth

• Lennox's servants

• Macbeth's hired assassins.

In Scene 3, Malcolm and Macduff meet in England and discuss the following topic.

• Their own suffering

• Macbeth's treachery and evil.

• The valor of the English troops in battle.

The “damned spot” to which Lady Macbeth refers to in Act V, scene i is....

• A stain on her tablecloth.

• The burned trees in Birnam Wood.

• Duncan's blood stain.

Macbeth tries to reassure himself that Malcolm and Macduff are not a threat to him because they...

• Are both "woman born"

• do not have the military backing he has.

• Have fled because of fear.