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WorksheetsMacbeth Test Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who said this:
"Out, out, brief candle!... [Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"Out, out, brief candle!... [Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
a)
Duncan
b)
Malcolm
c)
Macbeth
d)
Lady Macduff
2.
What unnatural and truly bizarre thing(s) occurred on the night of King Duncan's death?
a)
earthquake
b)
chimneys blown down
c)
lamenting in the air
d)
all of the above
3.
Three of those in the final scene are:
a)
Malcolm, Macduff, and Macbeth
b)
Macduff, Macbeth, and Banquo
c)
Malcolm, Ross, and Lady Macbeth
d)
Banquo, Siward, and King Edward
4.
Who said, "Out damn spot! Out I say!"
a)
Lady Macduff
b)
Lady Macbeth
c)
The porter
d)
Lennox
5.
Who said: "Your father's dead, and what will you do now? How will you live?"
a)
King Duncan
b)
Banquo
c)
Lady Macduff
d)
Gentlewoman
6.
King Duncan's two sons are named...
a)
Malcolm and Donalbain
b)
Ross and Lennox
c)
Siward and Donalbain
d)
Edward and Macduff
7.
Who said, "I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
a)
Donalbain
b)
Macbeth
c)
Malcolm
d)
Banquo
8.
Macduff does not attend Macbeth's crowning in Scone because...
a)
He is needed in Fife
b)
His wife sent him to England
c)
Fear of harm from Macbeth
d)
He had to work
9.
Lady Macbeth suggests to their guests that Macbeth's peculiar actions when he sees Banquo's ghost are caused by...
a)
"a fit... from his youth"
b)
a picture painted in his mind
c)
strong drink
d)
dark spirits
10.
Who said, "We will establish our estate upon our eldest," and about whom was he speaking?
a)
Duncan about Malcolm
b)
Banquo about Fleance
c)
Siward about young Siward
d)
LadyMacduff about her son
11.
Where were Banquo and Macbeth when the witches gave them the first prophesies about their futures?
a)
Out upon a heath (open area)
b)
In Birnam Woods
c)
In Ireland
d)
At Dunsinane
12.
The apparitions arise from...
a)
a cauldron
b)
the lake
c)
the morning dew
d)
a bonfire
13.
Macbeth's second meeting with the witches, when the apparitions appear, occurs in...
a)
a cave
b)
a deserted beach
c)
beside the castle wall
d)
In Fife
14.
Who said, "Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped?"
a)
Macbeth
b)
Macduff
c)
Banquo
d)
Ross
15.
Ross explains Macduff's action to Lady Macbeth at their home in _________.
a)
Inverness
b)
London
c)
Fife
d)
Edinburgh
16.
Macbeth's castle, where King Duncan was killed, was located in______________.
a)
Dunsinane
b)
London
c)
Edinburg
d)
Inverness
17.
Lady Macbeth uses this method of persuasion to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan, and Macbeth uses the same method of persuasion to convince the murderers to kill Banquo.
a)
ethos
b)
pathos
c)
logos
d)
agape
18.
Fleance is the son of ......
a)
Banquo
b)
Macbeth
c)
Duncan
d)
Siward
19.
Duncan's murderer is....
a)
His own guards
b)
Lady Macbeth
c)
Macbeth
d)
Banquo
20.
Who sent the murderers to kill Banquo and his son?
a)
Malcolm
b)
Macduff
c)
King Edward
d)
Macbeth
21.
As king, Macbeth is
a)
wise
b)
generous
c)
brutal
d)
gentle
22.
The name of the goddess of the witches is.....
a)
Graymalkin
b)
Paddock
c)
Hecate
d)
Flibbertygibbet
23.
After Duncan's death, Macbeth's attitude toward murder is......
a)
Never again!
b)
It's a despicable thing indeed
c)
It's not worth it.
d)
It's often necessary.
24.
When Macbeth finally meets death, he can best be described as....
a)
repentant
b)
resigned to his fate
c)
desperately courageous
d)
a trembling coward
25.
When Malcolm tests the loyalty Macduff, Malcolm falsely accuses himself of.......
a)
Lust
b)
Envy
c)
Slander
d)
All of the above
26.
The witches prophesy that Macbeth will be.....
a)
Thane of Glamis
b)
Thane of Cawdor
c)
Future King of Scotland
d)
All of the above
27.
The person who first discovers Duncan's dead body:
a)
The drunken porter
b)
Macduff
c)
Ross
d)
Malcolm
28.
Who was knocking loudly at the door on the morning after Duncan was killed?
a)
Ross and Lennox
b)
The two guards
c)
Lady Macduff and her son
d)
Macduff and Lennox
29.
_____________'s ghost appears and vanishes more than once at the banquet.
a)
Banquo
b)
Lady Macbeth
c)
Duncan
d)
Donalbain
30.
After having met with the witches, Macbeth is convinced that he cannot be harmed....
a)
by anyone of woman born
b)
until the Woods march up the hill
c)
by conspirators
d)
all of the above
31.
At the end of the play, Macbeth's soldiers are fighting for him because...
a)
they are loyal to him
b)
they are constrained to
c)
they promised him
d)
they know he can change
32.
While Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, she retells an accounting again and again of...
a)
All of the murderous happenings
b)
what the guards told her that night
c)
her childhood
d)
her father as he lay sleeping
33.
Once Lady Macbeth is delusional, she thinks she has ______ on her hands and commands that she always have a _______ near her.
a)
filth...dagger
b)
sweat...coverlet
c)
blood...light
d)
scars...weapon
34.
At the very beginning of the play, Macbeth is a successful...
a)
Lieutenant
b)
Sargeant
c)
Chaplin
d)
General
35.
What is the importance of the drunken porter?
a)
to move the plot along
b)
comic relief
c)
to hurry Macbeth with the killing
d)
to narrate the murder
36.
In Act 5, Macbeth realizes that although at this stage in his life he should have honor, love, obedience, and troops of friends, he instead can only expect...
a)
curses and mouth-honor
b)
anger and regret
c)
guile and bitterness
d)
depression and psychoses
37.
Macbeth refuses to smear blood on the guards because he _____________
a)
is far too weary
b)
knows that life is too short
c)
won't look at the scene again
d)
believes it to be unimportant
38.
Who is given the Scottish crown at the conclusion of Act 5?
a)
Edward
b)
Donalbain
c)
Malcolm
d)
Macduff
39.
Lady Macbeth doesn't kill Duncan as she sees him lying sleeping because...
a)
She doesn't have the dagger.
b)
It isn't time yet.
c)
He reminds her of her father.
d)
He opens his eyes.
40.
The apparition that tells Macbeth that no one of a woman born can harm him comes to Macbeth in the form of...
a)
A head in a helmet
b)
A bloody child
c)
A crowned child with a tree
d)
A headless horseman
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