Macbeth quiz with questions from students

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Macbeth quiz 

What is Lady Macbeth’s reaction to Macbeth’s letter about the witches?

1. She is sceptical and doubts their truth
2. She is determined to help Macbeth
3. She is angry
4. She is not interested in it

How does Lady Macbeth persuade Macbeth to go through with the murder on King Duncan?

1. She threatens to leave him
2. She bribes him
3. She promises to do it herself
4. She questions his manhood

What do the witches predict for Banquo?

1. He will become king
2. He will die as a hero
3. His descendants will be kings
4. He will lose his fortune

What does Lady Macbeth plan to do with Duncan’s guards?

1. Kill them along with Duncan
2. Drug them to make them sleep
3. Frame them for Duncan’s murder
4. Bribe them to leave

How does Macbeth feel about murdering Duncan at the end of act one?

1. confident
2. indifferent
3. frightened
4. excited

What kind of vision did Macbeth have before he killed Duncan?

1. Seeing a bloody knife
2. Hearing voices
3. Seeing Duncan's head
4. Seeing a dagger

Who discovers King Duncan’s body?

1. Macbeth
2. Lady Macbeth
3. Banquo
4. Macduff

What does Lady Macbeth do to the guards to make them appear guilty?

1. She kills them and puts their blood on them
2. She puts blood on them and puts the daggers next to them
3. She makes them drunk and then kills them
4. She bribes them

How does Macbeth immediately react after killing Duncan?

1. He is anxious and paranoid
2. He is calm and collected
3. He is remorseful and wishes he hadn't done it
4. He celebrates his success

What strange events do Lennox and Ross discuss after Duncan's murder?

1. An earthquake and a tidal wave
2. A solar eclipse and comets
3. Famine and disease spreading through the land
4. Violent storms and screams of death

“The worst thing imaginable has happened. A murderer has broken into God’s temple and stolen the life out of it.”
Who said this?

1. Macbeth
2. Malcolm
3. Macduff
4. Lennox

At the beginning of scene 1, what feeling does Banquo express about the witches' prophecies?

1. a desire to hear more
2. a wish that they not be fulfilled
3. a fear that they have been disastrous for Scotland
4. a hope that they prove true for him as they have for Macbeth

At the beginning of scene 1, what feeling does Banquo express about Macbeth?

1. envy
2. loyalty
3. suspicion
4. sadness and worry

Macbeth's statements and behavior suggest that, since Duncan's death, he has felt..

1. indecisive and hesitant
2. smugly satisfied
3. uneasy and fearful
4. determined

Macbeth uses all of the following ways to motivate the murderers to act EXCEPT by..

1. threatening them
2. filling them with hatred
3. appealing to their pride
4. hinting at the value of his gratitude

Macbeth's desire that his wife be "innocent of the knowledge" of his plan to kill Banquo and Fleance suggests that Macbeth..

1. no longer trusts her
2. is now more decisive on his own
3. feels guilty about involving her in Duncan's death
4. has little faith in the plan

What are the three apparitions that the witches show Macbeth in Act 4, and what do they signify?

1. Beware of Banquo, everyone born from a woman shall harm Macbeth, the lake will come to the Dunsinane
2. Beware of Macduff, none of woman born shall harm Macbeth, Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane
3. Macbeth will be king, Macduff will kill Macbeth, Banquo's children will be kings

How does Macbeth react to the witches' prophecies in Act 4?

1. confident
2. with a mixture of determination and pride
3. fearful
4. with a mixture of fear and confidence

What motivates Malcolm and Macduff to join forces in Act 4, Scene 3?

1. out of a shared desire to overthrow Macbeth and restore Scotland
2. they want to make Malcolm the new king
3. they both want to take revenge
4. they want to fight

Why couldn't the murderers kill Macduff together with his wife and children?

1. He was at Macbeth's castle
2. He fled to England
3. He was out hunting
4. He fled when he saw the murderers coming

What does Lady Macbeth obsess over as she goes mad?

1. Whether Macbeth can also become king of England
2. The summer bird, the martlet, that has built his nest in a nook in the castle wall
3. The bloody ghost of Banquo that is haunting her
4. Blood she cannot wash off her hands

What armies join forces against Macbeth?

1. The Scottish and the British
2. The French and the Scottish
3. The Scottish and the Irish
4. The British and the Irish

Who becomes King of Scotland?

1. Macduff
2. Malcolm
3. Fleance
4. Ross

What does it mean that Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane?

1. Dunsinane is being expanded by using wood from Birnam wood
2. Macbeth will be buried in Birnam wood after his death
3. Soldiers hide behind branches as a camouflage and move to Dunsinane
4. The wood is slowly growing towards Dunsinane