WorksheetsMacbeth Unit Review
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 33mins
The setting of the play is primarily in
England
Ireland
Scotland
Norway
It is believed that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth largely to please:
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth
King James I
King Arthur
An extended speech is which a character speaks to himself/herself on stage to reveal a private though is called a
metaphor
Soliloquy
eulogy
epilogue
The original Thane of Cawdor was
Macbeth's father
a traitor to Scotland
Macbeth's fellow soldier
Duncan's son
Macbeth first meets the witches when he is returning home from
A meeting with King Duncan
A coronation ceremony
Banquo's residence
A battle he has just wone
In the first act, the witches predict:
That Macbeth will be king but Banquo will not
That civil war will end and they will meet Macbeth
That Duncan will be killed and Lady Macbeth will kill herself
That Birnam Wood will come to Dunsinane
Macbeth believes it is equally unlikely that he will be named Thane of Cawdor or King of Scotland. HOWEVER, the audience already knows that Duncan had ordered the Thane of Cawdor's execution and he plans to give Macbeth the title. This is an example:
Situational Irony
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Who does Duncan name Prince of Cumberland?
Malcolm
Donalbain
Macduff
Lennox
Before Macbeth murders Duncan, he sees:
The ghost of Banquo
An apparition of Duncan's bloody head
Bloody spots on his hands
An apparition of a bloody dagger
Which prophecy did NOT come true during the course of the play?
Banquo's sons will be king
Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth will only be hurt when Birnam Wood moves
Only a man not born of a woman will kill Macbeth
When Lady Macbeth hears King Duncan is coming to see them, she:
is frightened that he may know the truth
is pleased with the opportunity it gives Macbeth
Is happy because she expects him to name Macbeth his successor
Is worried that Macbeth may commit a terrible deed
What is Lady Macbeth's attitude toward the murder of Duncan before it happens?
She encourages it.
She is torn between loyalty to the king and ambition for her husband.
She is worried about the consequences.
She urges Macbeth not to do it.
Why is Lady Macbeth unable to kill Duncan when she has the chance?
Duncan has been too kind to her.
He reminds her of her father.
She hears the guards stirring.
She fears damning her soul.
What error did Macbeth commit in regard to the murder?
He screamed.
He awakened the King before he killed him.
He used the wrong daggers.
He brought the daggers out of the room with him.
When Macbeth refuses to put the servants' daggers back in the room, Lady Macbeth
Buries the daggers under the steps.
Causes such an uproar that she wakes the porter.
Stabs Macbeth with one of the daggers.
Takes the daggers back into the servants' room herself.
Who murdered the chamberlains?
Donalbain
Macbeth
King Duncan
Malcolm
Why do Malcolm and Donalbain leave the country after Duncan's murder?
They don't want to be accused of the crime.
They are going to take the sad news to their mother.
They are afraid the murderer will be after them, too.
They want to start making the funeral arrangements.
The porter at Macbeth's castle is depicted as
A cowardly traitor.
An upright gentleman.
A scheming murderer.
A drunken joker.
Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
provide comic relief.
trick the audience.
allow Macduff to gain admission to the castle.
remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.
During his second visit with the Witches, what is the last piece of information Macbeth demands to know?
If Macduff will kill him.
If Banquo's sons will be kings.
If he will rule England as well as Scotland.
If Lady Macbeth will recover.
How do the murderers sent to kill Banquo leave the job incomplete?
They leave Banquo in a ditch.
They forget to rob Banquo.
Banquo's son, Fleance, escapes.
Banquo's valuable horses are not captured.
After Banquo's murder, who shows up at Macbeth's palace and ruins the banquet?
Fleance
Macduff
Banquo's ghost
Duncan's ghost
Lady Macbeth covers for her husband's irrational comments at the banquet by saying
He has high anxiety and needs to see a doctor immediately.
He has had too much to drink.
He is just tired and stressed from being the King.
He is suffering from a childhood illness and it will pass.
When Macduff receives the news of his family, Malcolm urges him to
Grieve peacefully.
Stay away from Scotland.
Use his anger to motivate him to seek revence.
Try not to think about it.
Macbeth tries to reassure himself that Malcolm and Macduff are not a threat to him because they
Have fled out of fear.
Are both "of woman born."
Are far away in England.
Do not have the military power that he has.
What are the main emotions that Lady Macbeth shows in her sleepwalking scene?
love and loyalty
love and grief
guilt and fear
anger and hatred
What symptom does Lady Macbeth exhibit to the Doctor as she sleepwalks?
She will not eat anything.
She rubs her hands together as if washing them.
She lacks the ability to laugh.
She keeps screaming.
Lady Macbeth becomes
a nun
a runaway
insane
a mute
What is the probable cause of Lady Macbeth's suicide?
She feels guilty for her role in Duncan's murder.
She cannot stand to be with Macbeth anymore.
She feels profound despair for the state of Scotland.
She does not want to be taken alive by those who oppose Macbeth.
What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death?
He flies into a rage and kills the Doctor.
He calls the Witches to bring her back to life.
He is glad, because now his scret has died with her.
He is calm, saying she would have died sooner or later, anyway.
Why is Macbeth fearless in the final battle?
He no longer cares whether he remains king.
The Witches told him no man born of a woman could harm him.
The Witches assured him of victory.
He wishes to avenge Lady Macbeth's death.
Who kills Macbeth, finally ending his tyrannical reign?
Malcolm
Donalbain
Siward
Macduff
When Macbeth is finally killed, the prophecy of "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" is fulfilled because Macbeth's killer
Was adopted
Is the strongest
Was born by cesarean section
Is the smartest
What "prize" does Macbeth's killer bring back to the castle?
The King's sword
The King's crown
The King's horses
The King's head
After Macbeth dies, the new king will be
Fleance
Macduff
Banquo
Malcolm
"Fair is foul and foul is fair."
This famous line best represents which of the following themes of the play?
Things are not as they seem.
Absolute power leads to corruption.
Prophecies are not fated, but fatal.
There is danger in overzealous ambition.
"By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes."
To whom are the witches referring to in this line?
Macduff
Malcolm
Macbeth
Banquo
"Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way."
Which of the following best explains what Lady Macbeth fears when she speaks these lines?
She fears her husband is too good to seize the throne by murder.
She fears she is too much of a coward to commit a murder herself.
She fears that Macduff joining with Malcolm's army will end her husband's reign as king.
She fears she will not be able to persuade Macbeth to do what needs to be done to become king.
"Let not light see my black and deep desires. / The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."
In this aside, Macbeth admits that he hopes the king will be murdered. These lines best describe what tragic flaw of Macbeth's?
His ruthless ambition.
His tendency to be too trusting of others.
His ability to be easily influenced by others.
His emotional instability.
"Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook / Unless the deed go with it. From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand. And even now, / To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done."
Frustrated in his desire to kill Macduff, on what does Macbeth blame for his hanger, and what does he promise to himself from now on?
Macbeth blames his own impulsivity and he promises himself to think his actions through more thoroughly from now on.
Macbeth blames his tendency to be easily influenced by others and he promises to think for himself from now on.
Macbeth blames his own hesitation and he promises himself that he will act more immediately on his impulses from now on.
Macbeth blames his own selfishness for political power and he promises himself to be more aware of others from now on.
At the beginning of the play, this good king, ________________, is in power in Scotland.
Donalbain
Malcolm
Duncan
Macbeth
King Duncan's named heir is ________________; his other son is ________________.
Macduff; Fleance
Macbeth; Malcolm
Malcolm; Donalbain
Donalbain; Malcolm
________________ sleepwalks, haunted by the knowledge of the evil he/she has done
Duncan
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Not of woman born, ________________ ultimately kills Macbeth.
Malcolm
Banquo
Macduff
Donalbain
The senseless murder of ________________ and his son marks a new low in the play for Macbeth.
Fleance
Macduff
Donalbain
Banquo
Lady Macbeth drugs Duncan's guards; ________________ kills Duncan.
Macbeth
The Witches
Fleance
Banquo
________________ initially escapes the assassins that Macbeth sends to kill his father and him.
Duncan
Donalbain
Fleance
Malcolm
________________ predict that Macbeth will become king, and both he and his wife become consumed with the prophecy.
the porter
Lady Macbeth
the Witches
Macduff
Duncan is suspicious of Macbeth.
True
False
The witches tell Banquo that he will be king, but he will not father kings.
True
False
Ultimately, Macbeth feels guilty about killing Duncan and Banquo.
True
False
The doctor says he can cure Lady Macbeth if only Macbeth will pay him.
True
False
Macbeth has Macduff's family killed.
True
False
Macduff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped" and therefore can and does kill Macbeth, fulfilling the witches' prophecy.
True
False
