WorksheetsYear 11 English Literature knowledge test
Total questions: 98
Worksheet time: 55mins
Macbeth: Who finally kills Macbeth?
Malcolm
Lennox
Macduff
Banquo
Macbeth: Fill in the missing word
"What's done, cannot be..."
(a)
Macbeth: Duncan names his son Malcolm as his heir.
True
False
Macbeth: Who is with Macbeth when he meets the witches for the first time?
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Duncan
Macduff
Macbeth: Who said it?
"I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more is none."
Banquo
Macbeth
Duncan
Macduff
Macbeth: Complete the quotation "Out damned...
(a)
Macbeth: The witches predict Banquo will be king.
True
False
Macbeth: Macbeth begins the play with what noble title?
Thane of Stirling
Thane of Cawdor
Thane of Glamis
Thane of Fife
Macbeth: King Duncan gives Macbeth the title of Thane of Cawdor following his bravery in battle.
True
False
Macbeth: Fill in the missing word
"Is this a... I see before me?"
(a)
Macbeth: Lady Macbeth murders King Duncan.
True
False
Macbeth: Which of the following is NOT one of the witches' predictions for Macbeth?
He will become Thane of Cawdor
He will become king.
He cannot be killed by anyone born of woman.
His descendants will be kings.
Macbeth: Fill in the missing word
"The bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell. That summons thee to heaven or to..."
(a)
Macbeth: Who said it?
"Screw your courage to the sticking place. And we'll not fail."
Malcolm
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Macduff
Macbeth: Lady Macbeth is unable to kill Duncan herself because he looks similar to her father when he is asleep.
True
False
Macbeth: complete the quotation
"Fair is foul and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy..."
(a)
The witches predict that Macbeth will never be beaten until Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane.
True
False
Macbeth: which quotation shows Macbeth considering his treacherous betrayal of Duncan?
“Tis unnatural…on Tuesday last, a falcon towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and kill’d.”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
“He’s here in double trust; First I am in kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as his host who should against his murderers shut the door, not bear the knife myself.”
“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Macbeth: Why does Lady Macbeth keep washing her hands in Act 5, scene 1?
Her mental state has deteriorated and she is consumed by guilt, believing she is covered in the blood of those she has harmed.
She has injured herself trying to jump out of the tower window.
She has murdered Lady Macduff and cannot get the blood to wash away.
She is trying to remove any trace of Duncan's blood, which is everywhere due to Macbeth's messy killing.
Macbeth: What is Macbeth’s reaction to Lady Macbeth’s death?
He collapses from grief and shock
He is calm because he killed her and is hiding it
He is calm and says life is meaningless anyway
He screams out and kills the messenger
Macbeth: Who is “from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d”?
Macbeth
Fleance
Malcolm
Macduff
Macbeth: What did Macbeth see at the banquet in Act 3 Scene 4?
Blood in his wine cup
Banquo's ghost
Duncan's beating heart
The witches where his guests should be
Who is sentenced to death in Act 1?
Ross
Donalbain
The Thane of Cawdor
Lennox
Macbeth: After Lady Macbeth reads the letter, what do we learn about her opinion of Macbeth?
She doesn't think he has what it takes to be king. He's too full of the milk of human kindness, so she will have to be the driving force behind him.
She doesn't think he would be a good king, but since he's her husband, she will support him
She thinks he is too weak to be king and thinks Banquo should be assisted in his quest to be king.
She secretly hates him and will conspire with Banquo to have him killed.
Macbeth: Why do people suspect that Malcolm and Donalbain killed their father?
They found the body
They had bloody clothes
They fought with him earlier
They ran away after the murder
Macbeth: Fill in the missing word:
"It is too full o' th' (a) of human kindness"
Macbeth: fill in the missing word
"fill me from the crown to the toe top full of (a) cruelty."
Macbeth: Fill in the missing word
"Screw your (a) to the sticking-place and we'll not fail."
Macbeth: Who said it?
"There's daggers in men's smiles."
Donalbain
Lady Macbeth
Ross
Macbeth
Macbeth: Who said it?
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Ross
Donalbain
Macbeth: Who said it?
"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."
Banquo
Ross
Angus
Macbeth
Macbeth: Which of the quotations below shows Banquo as he suspects Macbeth may have murdered King Duncan?
This guest of summer,
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,
By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath
Smells wooingly here.
Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou play'dst most foully for't
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep.
Too cruel any where.
Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,
And say it is not so.
Macbeth: Who said it?
"My sword will talk for me."
Macduff
Malcolm
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth: What "sign" convinces Macbeth that he must go through with killing the king?
One of the witches appears in his room.
He has a nightmare about the murder.
He sees a floating dagger before him.
The ghost of his father visits him.
Macbeth: At the beginning of Act II, Banquo and Fleance both say how dark it is. The darkness is important because
Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth prayed to evil spirits and asked for darkness to cover them
It is Daylight Savings Time, but they don't know it
Bad things always happen in the dark
The witches warned Banquo about the dark
J&H: Complete the quotation
"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to ... it."
(a)
J&H: Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew by stabbing him.
True
False
J&H: Which quotation shows Dr Jekyll outlining his theory of human nature?
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
J&H: What is Dr Jekyll's fundamental belief about human nature?
He believes that all people are either wholly good or wholly bad, and that we are all doomed to our innate nature.
He believes that all people have a good side and a bad side, and that no one person is all one or the other.
J&H: Who summons Utterson to Jekyll's house?
Guest
Enfield
Lanyon
Poole
J&H: Jekyll and Hyde are the same person.
True
False
J&H: Fill in the missing phrase
"And next moment, with... he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows."
(a)
J&H: Who does Jekyll leave everything to at the end of the novel?
Poole
Utterson
Guest
Hyde
J&H: Who said it?
'Unscientific balderdash."
Lanyon
Jekyll
Utterson
Hyde
J&H: Utterson learns about Mr Hyde when Enfield tells him a story about him.
True
False
J&H: Which of the following was NOT a reason for Dr Lanyon to be angry at Dr Jekyll?
The nature of Dr Jekyll's scientific experiments
Dr Jekyll's attitude towards women.
The way in which Dr Jekyll transformed into Mr Hyde.
J&H: Fill in the missing word
“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's..."
(a)
J&H: Who said it?
"It was not like a man; it was like some damned juggernaut."
Utterson
Lanyon
Enfield
Guest
J&H: It is Dr Jekyll's letter that closes the novel.
True
False
J&H: Complete the quotation "If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of..."
(a)
J&H: Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon are the best of friends.
True
False
J&H: Utterson is concerned about Jekyll's will because:
It leaves everything to Dr Lanyon, even if Jekyll has disappeared and not confirmed dead.
It leaves everything to Mr Hyde, even if Jekyll has disappeared and not confirmed dead.
It leaves everything to Mr Poole, even if Jekyll has disappeared and not confirmed dead.
It leaves everything to Mr Enfield, even if Jekyll has disappeared and not confirmed dead.
J&H: Jekyll uses a potion to enable him to transform into Hyde
True
False
J&H: Fill in the missing word
"'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'then I shall be Mr...'"
(a)
J&H: Who is Mr. Enfield?
Mr. Utterson's walking friend
Dr. Jekyll's uncle
The man that Mr. Hyde kills
A wealthy lawyer
J&H: Who is Dr. Lanyon?
Dr. Jekyll's loyal servant
The man who gives Dr. Jekyll the ingredients for the potion
Dr. Jekyll's most loyal and trusted friend
A friend of Jekyll and Utterson, who witnesses Hyde's transformation back in to Jekyll
J&H: Where does Mr. Hyde live?
Shanghai
So Cal
Soho
Solo
J&H: When Dr. Lanyon says that Dr. Jekyll's actions would have separated even "Damon and Pythias", this is an example of which literary term?
allusion
alliteration
allegory
appeal to nature
J&H: Who is the first person to see Dr. Jekyll's secret?
Poole
Utterson
Lanyon
Mr. Enfield
J&H: How does Stevenson comment on Victorian society in the novel?
By the way Dr. Jekyll is so fixed on having an perfect image in society
Dr. Lanyon's feelings that Dr. Jekyll's research and science was unacceptable and wrong just because it was new and challenged the status quo
both A and C
None of the above
J&H: What do Utterson and Poole find in the lab once they break the door down?
Hyde dead on the floor
Jekyll reading a book
an empty room
a dance party
J&H: Who is Mr. Guest?
Mr. Utterson’s chief clerk and one to whom Utterson revealed many secrets
An alias used by Poole; Dr. Jekyll’s chief butler
The mysterious man who was sent by Dr. Jekyll to Dr. Lanyon’s home at midnight to retrieve a drawer
The only witness to the murder of Sir Danvers Carew
J&H: Who discovered Hyde's body?
Poole and Utterson
Inspector Newcom and Utterson
Maid and Lanyon
Utterson and Enfield
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘he gives a strong feeling of deformity’
Dr Jekyll
Mr Utterson
Edward Hyde
Mr Enfield
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.’
Dr Jekyll
Mr Utterson
Edward Hyde
Mr Enfield
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away’
Dr Jekyll
Mr Utterson
Edward Hyde
Dr Lanyon
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair’
Dr Jekyll
Mr Utterson
Edward Hyde
Dr Lanyon
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘I concealed my pleasures’
Dr Jekyll
Mr Utterson
Edward Hyde
Dr Lanyon
J&H: Which character does this quote relate to?
‘the two men put the greatest store by these excursions, counted them the chief jewel of each week’
Dr Jekyll and Mr Utterson
Mr Utterson and Mr Enfield
Edward Hyde and Dr Jekyll
Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll
AIC: Complete the quotation "If man does not learn that lesson, then he will be taught it, in..."
(a)
AIC: Mr Birling dismissed Eva from her job because she organised a strike after the workers were refused a pay rise.
True
False
AIC: The Birlings are having dinner to celebrate:
Sheila and Gerald's engagement
The merging of two companies: Birling and Co, and Crofts Ltd
The news that Eric is to become a father.
The news that Gerald is to become a father.
AIC: Mrs Birling wanted to help Eva, but was overruled by the charity's committee.
True
False
AIC: Fill in the missing word
"These girls aren't cheap labour. They're..."
(a)
AIC: Gerald gave Daisy Renton a place to stay, and some money.
True
False
AIC: Which of the following would NOT be a reason behind Eva's decision to take her own life?
She was pregnant and had no money.
She had no job.
She was due to appear in court accused of theft.
She had no husband to support her.
AIC: Fill in the missing word
"I find that a trifle..., Inspector."
(a)
AIC: Who said it?
"You're not the sort of father a chap can go to when he's in trouble."
Eric
Gerald
Sheila
Mr Birling
AIC: Gerald did not want his relationship with Eva/Daisy to end.
True
False
AIC: What was the job Eva was doing when Sheila had her dismissed?
Factory machine operator
Waitress
Clothes shop assistant
Governess
AIC: Fill in the missing word
"We are members of one..."
(a)
AIC: The Inspector is a real police officer.
True
False
AIC: To whom does Eva go to ask for help?
Mr Birling
Mrs Birling
Gerald
Eric
AIC: Who said it?
"I don't come into this suicide business."
Eric
Mr Birling
Gerald
Inspector Goole
AIC: Complete the quotation
"We are members of one..."
(a)
AIC: Mrs Birling was aware that Eva was pregnant with Eric's baby when she refused her pleas for help.
True
False
AIC: Which quotation shows Sheila's recognition of Gerald's involvement with the dead girl at the end of Act One?
"All right, Gerald, you needn’t look at me like that. At least, I’m trying to tell the truth. I expect you’ve done things you’re ashamed of too."
"And it was true, wasn’t it? You turned the girl out of one job, and I had her turned out of another."
"No, that’s no use. You not only knew her but you knew her very well. Otherwise, you wouldn’t look so guilty about it."
"Why – you fool – he knows. Of course he knows. And I hate to think how much he knows that we don’t know yet. You’ll see. You’ll see."
AIC: Why is Sheila so upset in Act 3 after the Inspector was revealed to be a fake?
Because she feels the Inspector made a fool of her
Because they all behaved badly, regardless of the Inspector's existence
Because she is worried that Gerald will leave her
Because she is worried about her parents' reputation
AIC: Rank these characters in order of their social class.
Sheila, Mr Birling, Edna, Eva
Eva, Sheila, Mr Birling, Edna
Mr Birling, Sheila, Eva, Edna
Mr Birling, Eva, Edna, Sheila
AIC: The Inspector is there to provide a voice to whom?
The middle class who were oppressed by the working classes and under represented
The working class who were oppressed by the wealthier classes and under represented
The upper class who were oppressed by the aristocrats and under represented
The aristocrats who were oppressed by no one but wanted to be heard
AIC: Who said it? "Why shouldn't they try for higher wages? We try for the highest possible prices."
Eric
Gerald
Mr Birling
Sheila
AIC: Which of these adjectives does not describe Sheila?
Static
Narcissistic
Open minded
Perceptive
AIC: Which political system most aligns with Priestley's views?
Communism
Marxism
Capitalism
Socialism
AIC: Which word best describes the Birlings' status?
Bourgeoisie
Socialist
Working
Climbing
AIC: Who says this?
'If you don't come down sharply on some of these people, they'd soon be costing the earth'
Arthur Birling
Sybil Birling
Eric Birling
Gerald Croft
AIC: Who reacts to seeing the image of Eva Smith with 'a little cry...a half stifled sob'?
Eric Birling
Sybil Birling
Sheila Birling
Gerald Croft
AIC: Which technique is used when Mr Birling describes the Titanic as unsinkable?
Pathetic Fallacy
Hyperbole
Dramatic irony
Tension
AIC: Who is described as 'not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive'?
Sheila
Gerald
Eva Smith
Eric
