Macbeth Review

The setting of the play is primarily in

• England

• Ireland

• Scotland

• Norway

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It is believed that Shakespeare wrote this play largely to please

• King Henry VIII

• Queen Elizabeth

• King James I

• King Arthur

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At the beginning of the play, Scotland is at war with which country?

• England

• Ireland

• Denmark

• Norway

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An extended speech in which a character speaks to himself or herself on stage to reveal a private thought is called a

• metaphor

• soliloquy

• eulogy

• epilogue

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The original Thane of Cawdor was

• Macbeth's father

• a traitor to Scotland

• Macbeth's fellow soldier

• Duncan's son

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In the beginning of the play, Macbeth successfully fights against

• Cawdor

• Banquo

• Macdonwald

• Macduff

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Macbeth first meets the witches when he is returning home from

• a meeting with King Duncan

• a coronation ceremony

• Banquo's residence

• a battle he has just won

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In the first act, the witches predict

• that Macbeth will be king, and Banquo's descendants will be king

• that civil war will end and they will meet Macbeth

• that Duncan will be killed and Lady Macbeth will kill herself

• That Birnam Wood will come to Dunsinane

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Macbeth believes it is equally unlikely that he will be named either Thane of Cawdor or King of Scotland. However, the audience already knows that Duncan has ordered the Thane of Cawdor's execution and he plans to give Macbeth the title; therefore, this is an example of

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing

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Who does Duncan name the Prince of Cumberland?

• Malcolm

• Donalbain

• Macduff

• Lennox

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