MACBETH Test

The setting of the play is primarily in

• England

• Ireland

• Scotland

• Norway

It is believed that Shakespeare wrote this play largely to please

• King Henry VIII

• Queen Elizabeth

• King James I

• King Arthur

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

• England

• Ireland

• Denmark

• Norway

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

• Metaphor

• Soliloquy

• Eulogy

• Epilogue

The original Thane of Cawdor was

• Macbeth's father

• A traitor to Scotland

• Macbeth's fellow soldier

• Duncan's son

At the beginning of the play, Macbeth successfully fights against

• Cawdor

• Banquo

• Macdonwald

• Macduff

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.

In the first Act, the Witches predict

• That Macbeth will be King but Banquo will not.

• 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.

Term when the audience already knows what the characters will do:

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic irony

• Foreshadowing

Who does Duncan name the Prince of Cumberland?

• Malcolm

• Donalbain

• Macduff

• Lennox