wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Macbeth Quotes

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who said the following quote? "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
a)
Lady Macbeth
b)
Macbeth
c)
Duncan
d)
Porter
2.
Which of the following quotes supports the central theme of appearance vs. reality?
a)
“Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not/Those in commission yet returned?” –Duncan (I.iv.1-2)
b)
“There’s no art/to find the mind’s construction in the face:/He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust” –King (I.iv.12-16)
c)
“The service and loyalty I owe,/In doing it, pays itself.” –Macbeth (I.iv.22-23)
d)
“There if I grow,/The harvest is your own.” –Banquo (I.iv.32-33)
3.
“Thou has it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/As the weird women promised, and I fear/Thou pla’dst more foully for’t.” – Banquo (II.i.1)- Which statement explains this quote?
a)
Macbeth has everything he has ever wanted, but Lady Macbeth is becoming jealous.
b)
Sometimes prophecies can come true, so evil can be viewed in a positive way.
c)
Macbeth’s three prophecies have come true, but I’m afraid he had dishonest conduct.
d)
The weird women cannot predict what choices Macbeth will make to get what he wants.
4.
Which of the following quotes supports Lady Macbeth’s feelings that Macbeth lacks the wickedness to strike at the first opportunity to kill King Duncan?
a)
“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be/What thou art promised.” (I.v.13)
b)
“Yet do I fear thy nature;/It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness…” (I.v.14)
c)
“The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/Under my    battlements” (I.v.37)
d)
“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men/May read strange matters.” (I.v.60)
5.

Who said:

"But 'tis strange,/And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths;/Win us with honest trifles, to betray's/In deepest consequence”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Banquo

c)

Macduff

d)

Duncan

6.

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

Banquo

d)

Malcolm

7.

“Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

Macduff

d)

Lady Macduff

8.

“Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight. With a new Gorgon”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

Macduff

d)

Lady Macduff

9.

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

Macduff

d)

Lady Macduff

10.

“Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i' th' name of Beelzebub?”

a)

Fleance

b)

Malcolm

c)

Lennox

d)

The Porter

11.

“Where we are/There’s daggers in men’s smiles”

a)

Fleance

b)

Malcolm

c)

Duncan

d)

Donalbain

12.

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear/His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear./And you all know, security/ Is mortals' chiefest enemy.”

a)

Lady Macbeth

b)

Lady Macduff

c)

The Witches

d)

Hecate

13.

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”

a)

The Porter

b)

The Witches

c)

The Captain

d)

The Doctor

14.

“What, all my pretty chickens and their dam/ At one fell swoop?”

a)

Siward

b)

Macduff

c)

Ross

d)

Angus

15.

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

The Doctor

d)

The Porter

16.

“Out, out, brief candle!/ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more. It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing.”

a)

Macbeth

b)

Lady Macbeth

c)

Macduff

d)

Lady Macduff

17.

“Despair thy charm,/ And let the angel whom thou still hast served/Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb/Untimely ripped.”

a)

Hecate

b)

Malcolm

c)

The Witches

d)

Macduff