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Macbeth

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How does the Captain describe Macbeth's actions at the start of the play?

a)

Brave and loyal

b)

Traitorous and a betrayal of the king

c)

Cowardly and uncertain

d)

Hopeless and ineffectual

2.

Till he unseamed him from the

(a)  

3.

Macbeth first meets the witches when he is coming back from battle with his best friend...

a)

Banquo

b)

Macduff

c)

Duncan

d)

Lennox

4.

What do the witches predict for Macbeth?

a)

His children will become Kings

b)

He will live a happy life

c)

He will be King

d)

He will lead the Scottish Army

5.

Who does Duncan name as the Prince of Cumberland?

a)

Donalbain

b)

Malcolm

c)

Macbeth

d)

Banquo

6.

'I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only

(a)  

7.

What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?

a)

He sees a floating head urging him to murder

b)

He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan's head

c)

He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight

d)

He sees a floating dagger pointing towards Duncan's chamber

8.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle

(a)  

9.
When a character speaks only to himself alone on the stage
a)
Aside
b)
Sleep talking
c)
Soliloquy 
d)
Speech
10.

Who discovers Duncan's body?

a)

Banquo

b)

Lennox

c)

Malcolm

d)

Macduff

11.
When the audience knows something the character does not know. 
a)
Secrets
b)
Dramatic Irony
c)
Foreshadowing
d)
Metaphor
12.

Who does Macbeth 'see' at the banquet?

a)

Duncan

b)

Banquo

c)

Fleance

d)

The Three Witches

13.

What do the apparitions tell Macbeth?

a)

Beware Macduff

b)

No man born of woman can harm him

c)

He will not be defeated until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane

d)

To kill Macduff's family

14.

How does Macbeth respond to Macduff's refusal to attend his coronation and celebatory banquet?

a)

Strips him of his title

b)

Exiles him to England

c)

Kills his family

d)

Throws him in the dungeon

15.

From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall

(a)  

16.
Why is Macbeth not worried when he learns that 10,000 English troops are headed his way?
a)
Macbeth's army is bigger
b)
He doesn't believe the servant
c)
The witches make him overconfident
d)
He is safe as long as he stays in his castle
17.

What does Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking show?

a)

Her guilt

b)

Her loss of control

c)

Her mental decline

d)

All of the above

18.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow,

(a)  

19.

Who kills Macbeth?

a)

Ross

b)

Siward

c)

Donaldbain

d)

Macduff

20.

At the end of the play who is the new king of Scotland?

a)

Macduff

b)

Banquo

c)

Malcolm

d)

Donalbain