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Macbeth Act I and Act II Test

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Macbeth is written by which author?

a)

Henry Campbell

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Lord Alfred Tennyson

d)

Emily Dickenson

2.

Macbeth is a play that is written as a ______.

a)

Comedy

b)

Tragedy

3.

Which archetypal pattern seems to be most evident in the play?

a)

“the good mother”

b)

“the biggest challenge”

c)

“the number 3”

4.

How many witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

5.

How many prophecies are predicted for Macbeth?

a)

4

b)

1

c)

2

d)

3

6.

Which prophecy is already true?

a)

Macbeth is thane of Glamis

b)

Macbeth is king

c)

Macbeth is thane of Cawdor

d)

Banquo is the new king

7.

Who is already the current king of Scotland?

a)

King Hrothgar

b)

King Duncan

c)

King Macbeth

d)

King Banquo

8.

Who do the witches vow to meet with “when the battle is lost and won”?

a)

Duncan

b)

Poseidon

c)

Hecate

d)

Macbeth

9.

Macbeth and Banquo have just defeated _________ in the Battle against Norway.

a)

MacDonwald

b)

Dunsinane

c)

Beowulf

10.

Macbeth and Banquo are generals from which country?

a)

Norway

b)

Finland

c)

Scotland

d)

Greece

11.

In his absence, Macbeth is named the new __________.

a)

Thane of Cawdor

b)

King

c)

Clergymen

d)

Thane of Glamis

12.

The previous Thane of Cawdor is tried and executed for what crime?

a)

Murder

b)

Treason

c)

Robbery

13.

What do the witches predict for Banquo?

a)

that his sons will be king

b)

that he would be king

c)

that he would be the new thane of Glamis

d)

That he would marry a queen

14.

"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of which literary device?

a)

paradox

b)

personification

c)

allusion

d)

onomatopoeia

15.

Who are the king's two sons?

a)

Macbeth and Banquo

b)

MacDonwald and MacDuff

c)

Malcom and Donalbain

d)

Ross and Lennox

16.

Why does the witch decide to put a curse on the sailor?

a)

because he refused to help her find Macbeth

b)

because his wife refused to offer her some of her nuts

c)

because they didn't like the way the sailor looked

17.

How do you know that kings and queens were "divinely" appointed based on the design of their crowns?

a)

the design included crosses and the fleur de lis symbol

b)

the crown was gold

c)

the crown was round

d)

the crown was sturdy

18.

What thoughts do begin to entertain Macbeth when he returns back home?

a)

divorcing Lady Macbeth

b)

killing Banquo

c)

killing the King

d)

retiring as thane of glamis

19.

What does Lady Macbeth mean when she states that Macbeth is "too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearst way"?

a)

he's too nice

b)

he's too arrogant

c)

he's too humble

d)

he's too clingy

20.

Lady Macbeth prays to the gods to "unsex me here". What does she mean?

a)

to unleash horrible spirits on Macbeth

b)

to make her have thoughts less than that of a woman and more bold like a man

21.

Who is to bear the guilt of the murder of the king?

a)

the chamberlains

b)

the sons

c)

Lady Macbeth

22.

What hallucination is Macbeth starting to see?

a)

a floating, bloody dagger

b)

a floating crown

c)

murdering Lady Macbeth

23.

What does the king gift Lady Macbeth for their hospitality?

a)

matching crowns

b)

a pet falcon

c)

a necklace

d)

a diamond

24.

What sound signifies that the deed is to be done?

a)

the ringing of a siren

b)

the heralding of a horn

c)

the ringing of a bell

d)

the cawing of the falcon

25.

Why is it that Lady Macbeth could NOT perform the murder herself?

a)

Duncan has been good to her and her family

b)

Duncan looks like her father

c)

Duncan has given her a diamond

d)

Duncan is a guest in her home

26.

Because of the breach in nature and/or the murder of a divinely appointed figure such as Duncan, strange occurrences begin to unveil. What are these strange occurrences called?

a)

symbols

b)

spirits

c)

omens

d)

intuitions

27.

Which of the following phrases does Macbeth NOT hear as a result of his continued paranoia?

a)

"murder"

b)

"amen"

c)

"god bless us"

d)

"macbeth is a murderer"

28.

What phrase does Macbeth seem to have trouble speaking after committing the murder?

a)

"amen"

b)

"Duncan is dead"

c)

"forgive me"

29.

According to Macbeth, all of the house seems to cry out ____________.

a)

"murderer"

b)

"Thane of Cawdor shall not live"

c)

"sleep no more"

d)

"here lies the murderer"

30.

Who places the daggers on the bodies of the chamberlains?

a)

Lady Macbeth

b)

Macbeth

31.

What noise does Macbeth and Lady Macbeth seem to constantly hear on the night of the murder?

a)

sirens

b)

knocking

c)

owls screaming

d)

people screaming

32.

Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to retrieve water to "clear us of the deed" (to wash his hands) is an example of which literary device?

a)

exaggeration/hyperbole

b)

understatement

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

33.

Macbeth makes the statement that, "this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine; making the green one red" to suggest that even washing his blood-stained hands will not be enough to wash him from the sin of killing Duncan. This is an example of __________.

a)

exaggeration; hyperbole

b)

understatement

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

34.

Macbeth wishes that the growing knocking noises that hears could wake Duncan suggests that ________.

a)

he is satisfied with the deed

b)

that he regrets killing the king

c)

that he wishes the King would knock on the door

35.

What element does the Porter's scene add to Shakespeare's play?

a)

comic relief

b)

suspense

c)

sympathy

d)

empathy

36.

In keeping with the repetition of the archetypal number "three", which three members do the porter say comes to the gate (Hell's gates)?

a)

teacher, principal, janitor

b)

leper, harlot, priest

c)

priest, farmer, equivocator

d)

farmer, equivocator, English tailor

37.

Who retrieves the "sleeping" king from his chambers?

a)

MacDuff

b)

Macbeth

c)

Lady Macbeth

d)

Ross

38.

What "three" things does the Porter say drinking leads to?

a)

nose painting, sleep, hallucinating

b)

nose painting, sleep, dreaming

c)

nose painting, sleep, urine

d)

nose painting, sleep, trickery

39.

Lady Macbeth creates a diversion by _________.

a)

blurting out who murdered Duncan

b)

dropping a glass dish on the floor

c)

pretending to faint

d)

confessing to the murder

40.

Duncan's two sons, Malcom and Donalbain, flee to England and Ireland because they __________.

a)

fear for their lives

b)

committed the murder

c)

want to look for the real murderers

41.

After the king is killed, this causes a breach in nature or throws off the order of the universe. Which "three" omens occur after the deed?

a)

horses eat each other, earthquakes, tornadoes

b)

lions roar fire, rain turns to hail, men killing each other

c)

statues bleeding, stars fall out of the sky, wind blowing

d)

owl kills the falcon, day turns to night, horses eating each other

42.

Out of "rage" or "fury" that the king has been killed, what does Macbeth do?

a)

he screams "bloody murder"

b)

he faints

c)

he kills the two chamberlains

d)

he hallucinates that Duncan is alive

43.

Who is, now named, the King of Scotland?

a)

Macbeth

b)

MacDuff

c)

Malcom

d)

Lennox

44.

Lady Macbeth asks that Macbeth be a "flower" on the outside but a _________ on the inside in order to perform the murder.

a)

lily

b)

rose

c)

devil

d)

serpent

45.

What literary device does the poet use to highlight the social issues that because of the casualties of war, war is not pleasant?

a)

allusion

b)

alliteration

c)

satire

d)

simile

46.

How magnificent is the war! is an example of __________.

a)

personification

b)

sarcasm

c)

allusion

d)

onomatopoeia

47.

The title of the poem, The War Works Hard, clearly indicates that the war is like a person who works from sun-up to sun-down. This is an example of _________.

a)

allusion

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

satire