WorksheetsMacbeth Unit Test Review
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 23mins
To lighten the mood after serious scenes in a play, ___________________________ is provided (think about the scene with the Porter).
improvisation
dialogue
comic relief
aside
____________________________ occurs in a play when the audience knows a key detail about the story that other characters in the play do not know.
Tragic irony
Dramatic irony
Tragic flaw
Aside
This is a dramatic device in which a character, alone on a stage, reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings as if speaking aloud:
Aside
Soliloquy
Dialogue
Catharsis
This purging feeling, also known as, ______________________, is an emotional experience an audience can have while watching a dramatic play.
catharsis
hubris
comic relief
aside
In a play, a character’s comment that is heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage is called a(n) :
soliloquy
monologue
aside
prose
What vision does Macbeth before he kills King Duncan?
a crown
a crystal ball
a dagger
a nagging wife
What do the people of Scotland eventually think of their king, Macbeth?
They respect him.
They think he is crazy.
They think he is incompetent.
They think he is a tyrant.
What is symbolic about Banquo’s ghost at the table?
He was sitting in Macbeth's seat at the table.
He was killed while sitting in that seat at the party.
He was late getting to the party.
He was plotting to kill Macbeth while at the party.
What is Macbeth's tragic flaw?
Hubris
Harmartia
Catharsis
Paranoia
What does Lady Macbeth do that worries her servant?
She sleepwalks and predicts Macbeth's death.
She sleepwalks and predicts her own death.
She sleepwalks and relives the murder of the king.
She sleepwalks and relives the witches' prophecies.
In Act 4, why does Malcolm lie and tell Macduff that he is very greedy and lusts over women?
He is testing Macduff's morals and values.
He is testing Macduff's allegiance to Scotland.
He is testing BOTH Macduff's morals/values and his allegiance to Scotland.
He cannot tell Macduff the truth about his plan to overthrow Macbeth.
How do the character traits of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth reverse by the end of the story?
In the beginning, Macbeth is confident and by the end, Lady Macbeth is confident.
In the beginning, Macbeth is evil and by the end, Lady Macbeth is evil.
In the beginning, Lady Macbeth is confident, and by the end, Macbeth is confident.
In the beginning, Macbeth is paranoid and by the end, Lady Macbeth is paranoid.
How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1
2
3
4
How does Macbeth justify his killing of the king's servants?
He was angry with them for killing the king.
He was drunk and didn't realize what he was doing.
He didn't like their appearance.
They got in his way.
Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain
Duncan's drunken chamberlains
The porter
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth may best be described as:
ambitious
loving
supportive
motherly
Why does Macbeth have Banquo murdered?
because Banquo is a traitor
because Banquo ridicules Macbeth as the new king
because he is scared of Banquo and what he is capable of
because he wants to prevent Banquo from becoming king
In this speech, Banquo warns Macbeth that
The foregoing underlined words all refer to
"Traitor!"
Who was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped," circumventing the witches' prophecy?
Fleance
Banquo
Siward
Macduff
The second time Macbeth goes to see the witches, he sees all of the following apparitions EXCEPT
a line of kings with mirrors
a crowned child holding a tree
a head with a helmet
a bloody dagger
Which line best demonstrates Lady Macbeth’s rejection of traditional feminine traits and values?
“My hands are of your color / But I shame to wear a heart so white”
“Will all the perfumes of Arabia not sweeten / This little hand”
“Come to my woman’s breast, and take my milk for gall”
“Tis better to be that which we destroy, than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”
Which of the following lines illustrates Macbeth’s tragic flaw?
“I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition.”
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren scepter in my grip.”
“It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.”
Which of the following lines best demonstrates the chaos that results in nature when the Elizabethan Great Chain of Being is disrupted?
“A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair. / Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
How is balance restored in the play?
Macbeth’s children are all sentenced to a life of hard labor.
Malcolm takes the throne.
The witches are defeated after their prophecies come true.
Malcolm and Donalbain return to Scotland and bury their deceased father.
