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WorksheetsMacbeth Exam
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Macbeth
MacDuff
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives . . .
Lady Macbeth
The Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth
The Witches
Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t.
Macbeth
The Witches
Lady MacDuff
Lady Macbeth
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Macbeth
Hecate
Lady Macbeth
Witches
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt.
The Witches
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Whence is the knocking ? How is ‘t with me, when every noise appalls me? What hands are here! Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean was this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
The Murderers
The Captain
"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest"
Donalbain
MacDuff
Banquo
Malcolm
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill
me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty!”
Macbeth
The Witches
Lady Macbeth
Lady MacDuff
“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women
promised, and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't”
Macbeth
Banquo
Malcolm
Hecate
“Out, damned spot; out, I say… Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him.”
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
The Murderers
The Witches
“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for a word.”
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Macduff
Lennox
When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won.
Hecate
Witches
Murderers
Sons of the characters
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. (Act I, Scene III)
MacDuff
Banquo's Son
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. (Act I, Scene V)
Macbeth
Hecate
Lady Macbeth
Donaldbain
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters, to you they have show’d some truth. Will my heirs yet be kings?
Macbeth
Banquo
Malcolm
Macduff
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?Let 's away;Our tears are not yet brew'd our father hath been killed.
Donalbain
Lennox
Fleance
Malcolm
Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail. (Act I, Scene vii)
Lady macbeth
Macbeth
Hecate
Malcolm
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? (Act II, Scene I)
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
The Witches
The Porter
There's daggers in men's smiles. (Act II, Scene iii)
Lady Macbeth
The Witches
Malcolm
Lady Macduff
O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! (Act III, Scene ii)
Macbeth
Macduff
Banquo
The King
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.
Lady Macbeth
The Porter
Macbeth
MacDuff
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act IV, Scene i)
Hecate
The Witches
Lady Macbeth
Malcolm
Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth (Act IV, scene i)
Hecate
The Witches
Macbeth
The witches first and then Macbeth repeats it...
O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou may’st revenge – O slave! .
Macbeth
The Murderers
The Witches
Banquo
Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (Act V, Scene i)
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
The Ghost of BAnquo
MacDuff
I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born. (Act V, Scene viii)
Banquo
Macduff
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
'The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?'
Macbeth
The wife of fife
Lady macbeth
The Murderers
"As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought The wood began to move.
Messenger
Banquo
Macduff
Macbeth
“The castle of Macduff I will surprise, seize upon fife, give to the’ edge of the’ sword, his wife,his babies, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line”
Macbeth
MacDuff
The Murderers
The Witches
We've scorched the snake, not killed it.
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Banquo
Malcolm
Donaldbain
Malcolm
MacDuff
Fleance
“Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub?”
The Porter
The Witches
The Devil
Macbeth
“That hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quenched them hath given me fire.”
Macbeth
MacDuff
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth
Why does Macbeth become Thane of Cawdor?
a. He is the son of the last Thane of Cawdor.
b. He kills the last Thane of Cawdor.
c. Duncan rewards him for bravery and loyalty.
d. The witches predicted it.
What is Lady Macbeth’s attitude toward the murder of Duncan before it happens?
a. She encourages it.
b. She is torn between loyalty to the king and ambition for her husband.
c. She is worried about the consequences.
d. She urges Macbeth not to do it.
. Why do people suspect Malcolm and Donalbain of being behind Duncan’s murder?
a. Lady Macbeth smears blood on them.
b. Lady Macbeth hides the bloody daggers in their belongings.
c. They often fought with their father.
d. Their running away makes them look guilty.
What is the main reason that Macbeth kills Banquo?
a. Jealousy
b. fear that Banquo saw him kill Duncan
c. Banquo’s lack of loyalty
d. the witches’ prediction that Banquo’s sons and grandsons will be kings
From Macbeth’s point of view, what goes wrong at Banquo’s murder?
a. Banquo escapes.
b. Fleance escapes.
c. A third murderer appears.
d. The guards cry “Murder!”
After Banquo’s murder, who shows up at Macbeth’s palace and ruins the banquet?
a. Fleance
b. Macduff
c. Banquo’s ghost
d. Birnham Wood
Why does Macduff go to England and join Malcolm?
a. to get revenge for the murder of his family
None of these
b. to fight the tyrant Macbeth with Malcolm
c. to find out if Malcolm killed Duncan
What are the main emotions that Lady Macbeth shows in her sleepwalking scene?
a. love and loyalty
b. love and grief
c. guilt and fear
d. anger and hatred
King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by dubbing him
a. the Earl of Sinel.
b. the Thane of Cawdor
A Witch
c. Bellona's bridegroom.
In addressing Banquo, the witches tell him which of these?
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." (I)
"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much happier." (II)
"A future father of kings." (III)
a. I and II
b. I and III
c. I, II, and III
Smarter than Macbeth but deader
Lady Macbeth characterizes her husband as being
a. "the glass of fashion and the mould of form."
b. "too full of the milk of human kindness."
c. "a cannon overcharg'd with a double crack."
none of these
As part of the plan to kill the king, Lady Macbeth would
a. get the chamberlains drunk.
b. smear Duncan's face with blood.
c. arrange an alibi for Macbeth.
knock on the door to distract the porter
Lady Macbeth confessed that she would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that
a. she couldn't gain easy access to his bedchamber
b. he looked like her father
c. one of Duncan's guards spied her on the to stairway
she had a headache that night
Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order to
a. allow Macduff to gain admission to the castle.
b. remind the audience of the Witches' prophecies.
c. provide comic relief.
to teach the lesson, don't drink on the job
Malcolm and Donalbain flee after the murder
a. they “fear the daggers in men's smiles.” (are afraid for their own life)
b. in order to join Macduff in England.
c. because they are blamed for it.
They are afraid to become Kings
Macbeth arranges for Banquo's death by telling the hired killers that
a. Banquo had ruined their careers.
b. if they fail, they will pay with their own lives.
c. he will erase all records of their previous crimes.
Banquo was beating his son
Macbeth startles his dinner guests by
a. conversing with the Ghost of Banquo
b. attempting to wash the blood from his hands
c. saying to Lady Macbeth that, "Murder will out."
fainting
In Act IV, Malcolm is at first lukewarm toward Macduff because he
a. wasn't prepared to overthrow Macbeth.
b. suspects a trick and wants to be sure they are both against Macbeth.
c. wasn't worthy of becoming king, in his opinion.
looked like a tree
Birnham Wood comes to Dunsinane when
a. the witches rendezvous with Macbeth.
b. the camouflaged soldiers make their advance.
c. Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to stand and fight.
The castle was really a trailer
Macbeth’s emotional state immediately after he kills Duncan may best be
described as
a. happy
b. grateful
c. guilt-ridden
d. Tired
Macbeth’s conversation with the doctor reveals that he
a. Is deeply concerned about his wife’s well-being
b. Wishes he
could be rid of his wife
c. Is much less concerned about his wife than he is about the ensuing battle
knows she will commit suicide
As she reads her husband’s letter in the beginning, Lady Macbeth is
a. Worried because her husband is ill
b. Fearful because her husband has talked to witches
c. Determined to convince Macbeth to murder the king
fed up with her husband's stupidity
When Macbeth refuses to put the servants’ daggers back in the room, Lady Macbeth
a. Causes such an uproar that she wakes the porter
b. Takes the daggers back into the servants’ room
c. Buries the daggers under the steps
kills him too
In Act V, Lady Macbeth
Cannot rest because she is troubled by all her sinful deeds
b. Is plotting to kill her husband and rule by herself
c. Helps Malcolm defeat Macbeth
cannot rest and sleepwalks
According to evidence in Act V, Lady Macbeth died
a. at the hands of assassins
b. of a physical ailment
c. by her own hand
of a broken heart
When the king learns of the treason of the Thane of Cawdor, he
a. Orders him killed
b. Realizes all is lost
c. Weeps bitter tears
all of these
Duncan disturbs Macbeth by announcing that
a. Malcolm will be the future king of Scotland
b. He will visit Macbeth at his castle
c. He will make Banquo a prince
Macbeth must travel to England
In Act IV, Macduff wants to go to war against Macbeth because he
a. Wants the kingdom for himself
b. Wants to show his wife that he is brave
c. Considers Macbeth a tyrant
has always wanted to be a tree
In Act IV scene ii, Lady Macduff calls her husband a traitor because
a. Macbeth considers Macduff a traitor
b. She knows Macduff is raising an army against Macbeth
c. She feels Macduff has abandoned her and her children
He had an affair with Lady macbeth
. Duncan’s sons are suspected of his murder because
a. Lady Macbeth accused them
c. They had the most to gain from the king’s death
d. they fled the Castle without explanation
They told everyone they wanted him dead
Three apparitions appear to Macbeth in Act IV. What do they predict?
a. Macbeth cannot be killed by woman born
b. Birnham Wood will come to Dunsinane
c. Macbeth should fear Macduff
d. All of these
Lady Macbeth becomes
a. a mute
b. insane
c. an insomniac
Miss America
After Duncan’s death, Macbeth finds killing
a. impossible
b. not worth it
c. often necessary
fun
Which of these predictions come true in the end?
a. “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”
b. “Beware the Thane of Fife.”
c. “Macbeth shall never be conquered until the Forest of Birnham comes to Dunsinane Hill and fights against him.”
d. all of the above
The witches tell Banquo that he will be king, but he will not father kings.
True
False
The Thane of Cawdor is pardoned by King Duncan.
True
False
If by pardon you mean "off with your head"
In Act IV, a doctor spies on Lady Macbeth while she is praying.
True
False
In Act V, Donalbain and the Irish troops prepare to attack Macbeth.
True
False
Macbeth, by the time Malcolm attacks, knows he cannot count on support from his followers.
True
False
Macduff was “from his mother’s womb untimely ripped” and therefore can and does kill Macbeth, fulfilling the witches’ prophecy.
True
False
. Banquo faints after the killing of Duncan.
True
False
Duncan is suspicious of Macbeth.
True
False
The doctor says he can cure Lady Macbeth if only Macbeth will pay him.
True
False
Lady Macbeth cries out to the spirits to “unsex” her because she is distraught over the death of her youngest son.
True
False
Where does Malcolm go
England
Ireland
Scotland
Denmark
What appears before Duncan's murder?
a Ghost
A Dagger
spots of blood
a crown
Where are Scottish Kings crowned
England
London
Scone
Portland
Who praises Macbeth's castle
Donalbain
Macdonwald
Lennox
The Captain
Why is Ambition a theme of Macbeth? What scene in particular shows this?
Why is the Supernatural a theme of Macbeth? What scene in particular shows this?
Why is Gender a theme of Macbeth? What scene in particular shows this?
Why is Power and Corruption a theme of Macbeth? What scene in particular shows this?
Why is Fate and Free will a theme of Macbeth? What scene in particular shows this?
Write out as much of the memorization theme assignment as you can without looking it up
Name 3 aspects of Medieval literature that are present in the play Macbeth.
Name 10 ingredients in the witch's brew
Who says, Lead on MacDuff...
Macbeth to begin fighting
Malcolm to begin heading toward the castle
The murderers waiting for him to leave
His wife, in sarcasm when he leaves them unprotected
