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WorksheetsBIG ENGLISH QUIZ
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 42mins
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: 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: 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
Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of
alliteration
personification
onomatopoeia
poetry
Which of the following is NOT an example of a Metaphor?
My little sister is an angel.
My dog is as smelly as dirty socks.
The lake is a mirror, showing my reflection.
Life is a roller coaster with many ups and downs.
Personification give non-living objects human like qualities.
True
False
A hyperbole is an:
exaggeration
alliteration
assonance
juxtaposition
A device where the speaker refers to something that the reader needs prior knowledge of or experience with in order to understand.
apostrophe
allusion
allegory
antonym
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.” Ex: Love is a battlefield.
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex: A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm.
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like what it means. Ex: buzz, click, bang, sizzle
A story/narrative in poetic form.
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.” Ex: Love is like a battlefield.
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex: “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life."
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as.” Ex: Love is a battlefield.
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Stanza
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
A single line of poetry.
The author’s specific word choice.
The picture created in your mind by a writer's use of figurative and sensory language
imagery
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
Language which appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.
Figurative language
Sensory language
The associations you make with particular words and phrases - the things you think of when you see a word or phrase.
Rhetoric
Imagery
Connotations
Tone
The general attitude, mood, or atmosphere of a piece of writing.
Language
Tone
Imagery
Connotations
Two or more words that have the same ending sound.
rhyme
simile
repetition
onomatopoeia
Comparing two unlike things saying that one is the other thing.
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to. Sound like the sound the word makes.
rhyme
alliteration
imagery
onomatopoeia
A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together.
imagery
repetition
stanza
hyperbole
Using the same word or phrase over and over again.
stanza
repetition
rhyme
alliteration
To make something seem larger or more important than it really is, an exaggeration.
alliteration
simile
personification
hyperbole
A figure of speech comparing two things using the words "as" or "like"
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
personification
A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities.
onomatopoeia
alliteration
imagery
personification
Which of these is NOT an example of a metaphor?
You could cut the atmosphere with a knife.
He is winter.
All's the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
He is like a bear with a sore head this morning.
What is pathos?
To what extent you are credible
The logic of your argument: the proof to back up what you say is true
The ability to evoke or encourage a particular emotion in your reader or listener
What is ethos?
To what extent you are credible
The ability to evoke or encourage a particular emotion in your reader or listener
The logic of your argument: the proof to back up what you say is true.
What is logos?
To what extent you are credible
The logic of your argument: the proof to back up what you say is true.
The ability to evoke or encourage a particular emotion in your reader or listener
Why is the outlining of benefits effective in rhetoric?
It shows people evidence, which reinforces the speaker's ideas.
It appeals to people's desire to see how something will be good for them.
What is hyperbole?
A short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident or person
Direct opposites
Words or phrases that encourage a reader or audience to feel a particular emotion
Exaggeration to emphasise a point or idea
What is rhetoric?
The art of persuasion
The art of entertainment
The art of informing
The art of instruction
Which of the following is NOT part of the Aristotelian Triad?
Logos
Pathos
Cosmos
Ethos
Complete the sentence.
OPINION is what you _______________ about something.
think
feel
believe
think, feel and believe
What is an anecdote?
A story.
A personal story.
A personal story about me of someone else.
A personal story that enhances the argument's point.
Which of these is an example of a fact or statistic?
40% of students do not wear the correct uniform.
I don't like wearing my school uniform.
Students don't wear the school uniform.
1 in 3 students are not wearing their complete school uniform.
Which technique is this:
87% of pupils said they would like to have a longer half term break.
Fact
Statistic
Emotive language
Opinion
Which technique is this:
School is amazing and I love going.
Fact
Emotive language
Opinion
Alliteration
