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WorksheetsMacbeth Final Test Review
Total questions: 78
Worksheet time: 39mins
The setting of the play is primarily in
England
Ireland
Scotland
Norway
It is believed that Shakespeare wrote this play largely to please
King Henry VIII
Queen Elizabeth
King James 1
King Arthur
An extended speech in which a character is alone on stage and speaks to himself or herself to reveal private thoughts is called a…
Metaphor
Soliloquy
Eulogy
Epilogue
The original Thane of Cawdor was
Macbeth’s Father
A traitor to Scotland
Duncan’s Son
Macbeth’s Son
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth successfully fights against
Cawdor
Banquo
Macdonwald
Macduff
Macbeth first meets the Witches when he is returning home from
Meeting King Duncan
A coronation ceremony
Banquo’s residence
A battle he just won
In the first Act, the Witches predict
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 die
That Birnam Wood will come to Dunsinane
Macbeth believes it is equally unlikely that he will be named either Thane or Cawdor or King of Scotland. However, the audience already knows that Duncan has ordered the Thane of Cawdor’s execution and he plans to give Macbeth the title; therefore, this is an example of…
Situational irony
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Foreshadowing
Who does Duncan name the Prince of Cumberland?
Malcom
Donalbain
Macduff
Lennox
Before Macbeth murders Duncan, he sees
The ghost of Banquo
A vision of Duncan’s bloody head
Bloody spots on his hands
A vision of a bloody dagger
Which prophecy does not come true during the course of the play?
Banquo’s sons will be kings
Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth will only hurt when Birnam wood moves
Only a man not of woman born 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 error did Macbeth commit in regard to the murder?
He awoke the King before he killed him
He used the wrong dagger
He brought the daggers out of the room with him
He screamed
Who murdered Duncan’s chamberlains?
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Malcolm
Donalbain
The porter at Macbeth’s castle is depicted as
An upright gentleman
A scheming murderer
A drunken joker
A cowardly traitor
During his second visit with the Witches, what is the last piece of information Macbeth demands to know?
If he will rule England and Scotland
If Macduff will kill him
If Banquo’s sons will be kings
If Lady Macbeth will recover
Malcolm speaks negatively about himself and lies to Macduff in order to
Test Macduff’s loyalty
Trick Macduff into joining him
Find out Macbeth’s secrets
Prevent Macduff from killing him
What symptom does Lady Macbeth exhibit to the Doctor?
She refuses to rise from bed at all
She lacks the ability to laugh
She will not eat anything
She rubs her hands together as if washing them
Macbeth convinces the two murderers to kill Banquo by telling them that
He will kill them if they don’t do it
Banquo is trying to kill them
Banquo had previously harmed them
They will be named princes if they do it
What is Lady Macbeth’s role in Macbeth’s plan to kill Banquo and Fleance?
It is her idea from the start
She doesn’t know about it
She tries to talk him out of it
She introduces Macbeth to the murderers
How do the murderers sent to kill Banquo leave the job incomplete?
They leave Banquo in a ditch
Banquo’s son, Fleance, escapes
They forget to rob Banquo of his purse
Banquo’s valuable horse isn’t captured
Why is Lady Macbeth unable to kill Duncan when she has the chance?
She fears damning her soul
He reminds her of her father
She hears the guards stirring
Duncan has been kind to her
Why does Lady Macbeth faint immediately after Duncan’s murder?
The guilt over her involvement is too much to bear
It is an act to turn attention from her husband
She is genuinely worried about the fate of Scotland
The sight of blood makes her woozy
During the feast, Macbeth’s chair is occupied by
Macbeth
Duncan’s ghost
Banquo’s ghost
Macdonwald
Malcolm instructs the soldiers to cut down tree limbs to
Hide their faces
Protect them
Disguise the army’s true size
Build a bonfire
Which of the following is the one thing the witches did NOT show Macbeth?
A bloody child
A crowned child
A crying child
Eight kings followed by Banquo’s ghost
Macbeth tries to reassure himself that Malcolm and Macduff are not a threat to him because
They are far away in England
They do not have the military power that he has
They have fled out of fear
He believes they are both “of woman born”
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 is glad because now his secret has died with her.
He is calm and upset, saying she would have died sooner or later but upset by the futility of life
He flies into a rage and kills the Doctor.
He calls the Witches to bring her back to life.
Why is Macbeth fearless in the final battle?
He no longer cares whether he remains king.
The Witches assured him of victory.
The Witches told him no man born of a woman could harm him.
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
Is the strongest
Is the smartest
Was born by cesarean section
Was adopted
What are Macbeth’s arguments to himself against killing Duncan?
Macbeth is Duncan’s kinsman and host. Duncan is a good and popular king; his death would bring sorrow to Scotland.
Macbeth doesn’t really have the ambition to be king. He is doing this to please his wife. He may be able to change his mind.
There are too many witnesses in the castle. He could never get away with it.
If anyone found out he did it, they would just kill him. He is better off being a Thane and being alive.
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
In Act 4, a doctor spies on Lady Macbeth while she is praying.
True
False
In Act 5, Donalbain and the Irish troops prepare to attack Macbeth.
True
False
Macbeth knows he cannot count on support from his followers by the time Malcolm attacks.
True
False
Macduff was 'from his mother's womb untimely ripped' and therefore can and does kill Macbeth, fulfilling the witches' prophesy.
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 pays 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
Donalbain flees to Ireland, and Malcolm flees to England.
True
False
Quote Analysis: "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death, / To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd, / As 'twere a careless trifle." Whose death is Malcolm referring to when he speaks these lines?
Macbeth's
Duncan's
Banquo's
The original Thane of Cawdor's
This famous line best represents which of the following themes of the play?: "Fair is foul and foul is fair."
Things are not as they seem.
Absolute power leads to corruption.
Prophesies are not fated, but fatal.
There is danger in overzealous ambition.
Quote Analysis: "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes." To whom are the witches referring in this line?
Banquo
Macbeth
Malcolm
Macduff
"Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way."
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 her husband is too good to seize the throne by murder.
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?
His ability to be easily influenced by others.
His ruthless ambition.
His emotional instability.
His tendency to be too trusting of others.
At this point, Macbeth argues with himself about murdering the king. Which of the following is the best summary of this part of his internal conversation?
He was told by Lady Macbeth to follow her lead and kill Duncan.
The Witches' prophesy encouraged him to commit this murder.
He assumes that murdering the king will not cause any problems later.
He knows that there are consequences for his actions and terrible deeds often backfire.
Identify the speaker (1 point each) NOTE: all letters are used at least once, many are used multiple times 51. "Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised, and I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for't."
Macbeth
Duncan
Banquo
The Witches
Lady Macbeth
Identify the speaker (1 point each) NOTE: all letters are used at least once, many are used multiple times 52. "To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus."
Duncan
Banquo
Macbeth
The Witches
Lady Macbeth
Identify the speaker (1 point each) NOTE: all letters are used at least once, many are used multiple times: "Out, damned spot, out I say!"
Banquo
The Witches
Macbeth
Duncan
Lady Macbeth
Identify the speaker (1 point each) NOTE: all letters are used at least once, many are used multiple times: "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."
Lady Macbeth
Duncan
Banquo
The Witches
Macbeth
Identify the speaker (1 point each) NOTE: all letters are used at least once, many are used multiple times 55. "They were suborned. / Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's two sons, / Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them / Suspicion of the deed."
Lady Macbeth
Malcolm
The Witches
Duncan
Macbeth
Who says the following quote in Macbeth?: "So foul a fair a day I have not seen."
Macbeth
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "My thanes and kinsmen, / Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland / In such an honor named."
Macbeth
King Duncan
Banquo
Malcolm
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly / And shall continue our graces towards him."
Duncan
Macbeth
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
Who says the following quote in Macbeth?: "Lesser than Macbeth and greater"
Witches
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "Hark! – I laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done't."
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Banquo
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil."
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Banquo
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth?: "I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man"
Macduff
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / be so much more the man."
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Banquo
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "And let the angel whom thou still hast served / Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd."
Macduff
Banquo
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "If you can look into the seeds of time / And say which grain will grow and which will not, / Speak then to me who neither beg nor fear / Your favors nor your hate."
Banquo
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
King Duncan
Who says the following quote in Macbeth? "Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host and make discovery / Err in report of us."
Malcolm
Macbeth
Siward
Donalbain
Match the character to the correct description: 67. Witches
b. Thane of Glamis
ae. Often speak in rhyming couplets
a. Watched as her son was murdered
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
Match the character to the correct description: 68. Macduff
e. His sons ran away; King
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
a. Watched as her son was murdered
b. Thane of Glamis
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
Match the character to the correct description: 69. Lady Macbeth
a. Watched as her son was murdered
b. Thane of Glamis
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
ac. Could not remove the spot
Match the character to the correct description: 70. Lady Macduff
e. His sons ran away; King
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
b. Thane of Glamis
a. Watched as her son was murdered
Match the character to the correct description: 71. Duncan
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
b. Thane of Glamis
a. Watched as her son was murdered
e. His sons ran away; King
Match the character to the correct description: 72. Macbeth
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
b. Thane of Glamis
a. Watched as her son was murdered
e. His sons ran away; King
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
Match the character to the correct description: 73. Malcolm
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
e. His sons ran away; King
a. Watched as her son was murdered
b. Thane of Glamis
Match the character to the correct description: 74. Fleance
a. Watched as her son was murdered
ad. Son of Macbeth's best friend
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
b. Thane of Glamis
Match the character to the correct description: 75. Banquo
c. The Prince of Cumberland; heir to the Scottish throne
a. Watched as her son was murdered
d. Went to England to persuade Malcolm to return
ab. Macbeth's best friend
b. Thane of Glamis
76. Select the correct explanation of the significance of the motifs 'BLOOD' and 'SLEEP' in the play.
BLOOD symbolizes guilt and SLEEP represents innocence lost.
BLOOD symbolizes bravery and SLEEP represents ambition.
BLOOD symbolizes love and SLEEP represents loyalty.
BLOOD symbolizes power and SLEEP represents betrayal.
Macbeth is considered a tragic hero because of his tragic flaw. What is Macbeth's tragic flaw?
Ambition
Cowardice
Generosity
Wisdom
Discuss the change that happens in Lady Macbeth over the course of the play. What does this change reveal about her initial characterization?
Lady Macbeth transforms from a ruthless and ambitious character to one consumed by guilt and remorse, revealing her initial strength was masking vulnerability.
Lady Macbeth remains consistently ruthless and ambitious throughout the play, showing no change in her character.
Lady Macbeth becomes more powerful and assertive as the play progresses, revealing her initial weakness.
Lady Macbeth's change is insignificant and does not reveal anything about her initial characterization.
