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Macbeth Act 3 Test

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which thane has not attended Macbeth's coronation nor his feast?

a)

Lennox

b)

Banquo

c)

Macduff

d)

Ross

2.

Macbeth believes he has seen the ghost of

a)

Banquo

b)

Duncan

c)

Fleance

d)

Malcolm

3.

What is now Lady Macbeth's attitude toward life?

a)

secure

b)

weary and joyless

c)

happy and proud

d)

free and content

4.

About how much time has passed between Act I and this act?

a)

a few hours

b)

a few days

c)

1 week

d)

months at least

5.

How does Macbeth now feel about murder?

a)

still feels great guilt and remorse

b)

has a paranoid need to murder all those who suspect him

c)

leaves it to Lady Macbeth to plan

d)

hates doing it

6.

To what can you compare Scotland in this act?

a)

a police state run by a tyrant

b)

a democracy

c)

a republic

d)

b and c

7.

Fill in the blank: "O, full of ________ is my mind, dear wife."

a)

terrors

b)

murders

c)

scorpions

d)

regrets

8.

Fill in the blank: "We have scotched the ______, not killed it."

a)

country

b)

tree

c)

road

d)

snake

9.

Fill in the blank: "To be thus is nothing, but to be _____ thus."

a)

happily

b)

safely

c)

sanely

d)

contentedly

10.

Macbeth murders Banquo at the urging of Lady Macbeth

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Macbeth hires 7 murderers to kill Banquo.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Lady Macbeth still has control over Macbeth.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The murderers of Banquo are not given names.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Fleance is murdered.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The banquet scene leaves no doubt in the thanes' minds that Macbeth killed Duncan and Banquo.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Macbeth realizes that he has killed Duncan only to have Banquo's children become kings.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Shakespeare leaves it ambiguous as to who is the third murderer of Banquo.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Unlike in the former acts, Macbeth now sleeps well.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

At the end of this act, Lennox is sarcastically speaking about Macbeth to another person.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Macbeth tells his wife his plans to murder Banquo

a)

True

b)

False