MACBETH 150 MCQ | CLASS XI | Semester 1 | WB

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Macbeth Multi-Choice Assessment

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1. Duncan was the king of —-
  • (a) Scotland
  • (b) England
  • (c) Ireland
  • (d) France
2. The brave General who lived in Scotland in the reign of Duncan was —-
  • (a) Banquo
  • (b) Macbeth
  • (c) Malcolm
  • (d) Fleance
3. Macbeth was —-
  • (a) a mere citizen
  • (b) a brave soldier
  • (c) a brave General
  • (d) a General
4. Macbeth was looked up to with high esteem throughout Scotland for his —-
  • (a) great valour
  • (b) skill in wars
  • (c) neither 'a' nor 'b'
  • (d) both 'a' and 'b'
5. The man who was also a close relative of king Duncan was —-
  • (a) Macbeth
  • (b) Macduff
  • (c) Banquo
  • (d) Fleance
6. By the rule of inheritance Macbeth was the thane of —-
  • (a) Cawdor
  • (b) Glamis
  • (c) Scotland
  • (d) Norway
7. Macbeth defeated —-
  • (a) an unidentified rebel army
  • (b) a rebel army led by the thane of Cawdor
  • (c) a rebel army led by the thane of Cawdor and assisted by the army of Norway
  • (d) a rebel army assisted by the army of Norway
8. The rebel army working against king Duncan was —-
  • (a) small in number
  • (b) very little in number
  • (c) insignificant in number
  • (d) large in number
9. The two Generals of Scotland were —-
  • (a) Macbeth and Banquo
  • (b) Macbeth and Macduff
  • (c) Macduff and Banquo
  • (d) Macduff and Malcolm
10. When Macbeth and Banquo were returning from the great battle, there were —-
  • (a) thunder and rainfall
  • (b) thunder and lightning
  • (c) rainfall and lightning
  • (d) snowfall and lightning
11. On the way from the great battle Macbeth and Banquo were stopped by —-
  • (a) three women
  • (b) three demons
  • (c) three witches
  • (d) three ghosts
12. The three witches looked like women except in —-
  • (a) skin
  • (b) dress
  • (c) hair
  • (d) beards
13. The things which made the three witches look like unearthly creatures were —-
  • (a) withered skin and wild dress
  • (b) withered dress and wild skin
  • (c) skinny lips and wild skin
  • (d) skinny lips and withered dress
14. When Macbeth and Banquo saw the three witches, they were —-
  • (a) dancing and playing
  • (b) dancing and singing
  • (c) playing and singing
  • (d) dancing and shouting
15. The song of the three witches begins with —-
  • (a) Four is foul
  • (b) Four is fair
  • (c) Fair is foul
  • (d) All are foul
16. According to the song of the witches, they hover through —-
  • (a) fog and filth
  • (b) foggish air and filth
  • (c) filthy air and mist
  • (d) fog and filthy air
17. The first witch saluted Macbeth with the title of —-
  • (a) the thane of Glamis
  • (b) the thane of Cawdor
  • (c) the thane of Norway
  • (d) the thane of thanes
18. That the witches knew him made Macbeth —-
  • (a) startled
  • (b) scarcely startled
  • (c) spellbound
  • (d) stupefied
19. The second witch addressed Macbeth as —-
  • (a) the thane of Norway
  • (b) the thane of Glamis
  • (c) the thane of Cawdor
  • (d) the would-be king of Scotland
20. The third witch told that Macbeth will be —-
  • (a) the thane of Glamis hereafter
  • (b) the thane of Cawdor hereafter
  • (c) the thane of Norway hereafter
  • (d) the future king of Scotland
21. The prophetic greeting of the third witch amazed Macbeth because he knew that —-
  • (a) as long as Duncan's sons survived, he had no scope of becoming the king
  • (b) as long as Duncan survived he had no hope of becoming the king
  • (c) as long as Banquo's sons survived he had no scope of becoming the king
  • (d) as long as Macduff survived he had no scope of becoming the king
22. When the witches prophesied about the royal association of Macbeth, Banquo become curious to know —-
  • (a) why the witches said all the positives about Macbeth
  • (b) why the witches did not say anything about him
  • (c) why the witches associated kingship with Macbeth
  • (d) why the witches associated kingship with Fleance
23. According to Banquo his “dearest friend” was —-
  • (a) Malcolm
  • (b) Macduff
  • (c) Macbeth
  • (d) Donalbain
24. According to the Banquo the thing which the witches kindled in the heart of his dearest friend Macbeth was —-
  • (a) ambition
  • (b) jealousy
  • (c) murderous motive
  • (d) hope
25. The nature of the prophecy of the witches to Banquo was —-
  • (a) riddling
  • (b) baffling
  • (c) confusing
  • (d) puzzling
26. The witches prophesied that those who will reign as the king of Scotland in future are Banquo's —-
  • (a) contemporaries
  • (b) successors
  • (c) predecessors
  • (d) fathers
27. After making their prophecies the witches vanished into —-
  • (a) the atmosphere
  • (b) air
  • (c) thin air
  • (d) airy substances
28. The event which made it certain to Banquo and Macbeth that the weird sisters were witches was —-
  • (a) vanishing in smoke
  • (b) dissolving in water
  • (c) dancing with rhythm
  • (d) vanishing in the air
29. The encounter of Macbeth and Banquo with the three witches was strange because —-
  • (a) the witches told them about their future life
  • (b) the witches had strange appearance
  • (c) the encounter took place at a strange place
  • (d) Macbeth and Banquo were strange beings
30. King Duncan sent certain envoys to confer upon Macbeth the title of —-
  • (a) the thane of Glamis
  • (b) the thane of Cawdor
  • (c) the thane of Fife
  • (d) the thane of Ross
31. The event which miraculously corresponded to the predictions of the witches was that —-
  • (a) Macbeth was given the title of the king
  • (b) Macbeth was given the title of the thane of Glamis
  • (c) Macbeth was given the title of the thane of Cawdor
  • (d) none of the above
32. Macbeth failed to respond to the greetings of the envoys because —-
  • (a) he was not that courteous
  • (b) he did it voluntarily
  • (c) Banquo kept him busy in his confusing talks
  • (d) the conferring of the title of the thane of Cawdor to him made him lose his sanity for the time being
33. The conferring of the title of the thane of Cawdor to him made Macbeth —-
  • (a) amazed
  • (b) angry
  • (c) sympathetic
  • (d) lovable
34. When Macbeth began to think about the prediction of the third witch, he became —-
  • (a) angry
  • (b) hopeful
  • (c) confused
  • (d) disappointed
35. According to Macbeth, those who will become the kings of the future are none but the —-
  • (a) the future generations of Macduff
  • (b) the future generations of Ross
  • (c) the future generations of Banquo
  • (d) the future generations of Angus
36. According to Banquo the witches are —-
  • (a) agents of darkness
  • (b) queens of darkness
  • (c) messengers of darkness
  • (d) ministers of darkness
37. According to Banquo the ministers of darkness tell us truths in —-
  • (a) little things
  • (b) big things
  • (c) trivial things
  • (d) none of the above
38. According to Banquo the ministers of darkness betray us into —-
  • (a) deeds of little consequence
  • (b) deeds of greatest consequence
  • (c) deeds of slight consequence
  • (d) none of the above
39. The prophecies of the witches affected the mind of Macbeth —-
  • (a) deeply
  • (b) very slightly
  • (c) very deeply
  • (d) slightly
40. In his letter Macbeth told his wife about —-
  • (a) the predictions of the three witches
  • (b) the partial accomplishment of these predictions
  • (c) none of the above
  • (d) both 'a' and 'b'
41. Lady Macbeth was by nature —-
  • (a) extremely ambitious
  • (b) abnormally thoughtful
  • (c) extraordinarily clever
  • (d) none of the above
42. The thought of blood made Macbeth feel —-
  • (a) elated
  • (b) compunctious
  • (c) optimistic
  • (d) pessimistic
43. According to Lady Macbeth for the fulfillment of the prophecies of the witches the murder of King Duncan was —-
  • (a) barely necessary
  • (b) barely needed
  • (c) absolutely necessary
  • (d) absolutely unnecessary
44. King Duncan came to visit Macbeth's castle —-
  • (a) to honour Macbeth for no cause
  • (b) to honour Lady Macbeth for no cause
  • (c) to honour Macbeth and Banquo because of their victory against the rebels
  • (d) to honour Macbeth because of his triumph against the rebels
45. The name of the castle of Macbeth was —-
  • (a) Inverness
  • (b) Invess
  • (c) Invest
  • (d) Invertness
46. Inverness, the castle of Macbeth, was situated on —-
  • (a) a mountain
  • (b) a hill
  • (c) a hillock
  • (d) a hilltop
47. The air around the castle of Macbeth i.e. Inverness was —-
  • (a) sweet
  • (b) wholesome
  • (c) both 'a' and 'b'
  • (d) neither 'a' nor 'b'
48. The birds which made nests in Inverness, the castle of Macbeth, were —-
  • (a) swallows and cuckoos
  • (b) martlets and parrots
  • (c) sparrows and crows
  • (d) swallows and martlets
49. The swallows and the martlets had built nests under —-
  • (a) all the jutting friezes and buttresses of the building
  • (b) all the jutting friezes of the building only
  • (c) all the buttresses of the building only
  • (d) none of the above
50. At the castle of Macbeth, i.e. Inverness king Duncan was pleased by —-
  • (a) only the wonderful ambiance of the castle
  • (b) the wonderful ambiance of the castle and the attention and respect paid to him by Lady Macbeth
  • (c) only the attention and respect paid by Lady Macbeth
  • (d) the attention and respect paid to him by Macbeth and the wonderful ambiance
51. Lady Macbeth had developed the art of camouflaging her treacherous purposes with —-
  • (a) smiles
  • (b) charming etiquette
  • (c) both 'a' and 'b'
  • (d) neither 'a' nor 'b'
52. As King Duncan was tired due to his long journey from the palace to the castle of Macbeth, i.e. Inverness, he went to bed —-
  • (a) early at noon
  • (b) in the evening
  • (c) in the afternoon
  • (d) early at night
53. At midnight over half the world nature seemed —-
  • (a) dead
  • (b) alive
  • (c) mysterious
  • (d) deadly
54. At midnight those who are out for hunt are —-
  • (a) the wolf and the lion
  • (b) the wolf and the murderer
  • (c) Macbeth and the wolf
  • (d) Macbeth and the murderer
55. The time when Lady Macbeth woke up to plot the murder of Duncan was —-
  • (a) the beginning of the night
  • (b) the end of the night
  • (c) the middle of the night
  • (d) none of the above
56. Lady Macbeth would not have taken the responsibility of murdering Duncan if —-
  • (a) Duncan had not slept without any bodyguard
  • (b) Banquo would have suspected that Macbeth might murder Duncan
  • (c) Macduff had not suspected that Macbeth was a real threat to Duncan
  • (d) Macbeth had not refused to commit the murder himself
57. According to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth was too full of the milk of —-
  • (a) human kindness
  • (b) human anger
  • (c) human ambition
  • (d) human error
58. According to Lady Macbeth, Macbeth was —-
  • (a) ambitious and criminal minded
  • (b) ambitious but not criminal-minded
  • (c) ambitious and covetous
  • (d) ambitious and inborn criminal
59. In order to kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth carried with her —-
  • (a) a blade
  • (b) a sword
  • (c) a dagger
  • (d) a gun
60. As Lady Macbeth approached the king's bed to kill him, Duncan reminded her of her —-
  • (a) own brother
  • (b) own husband
  • (c) own father
  • (d) own son
61. Lady Macbeth returned to her husband to instigate him to commit the murder because —-
  • (a) she was physically weak
  • (b) she did not have the resolution to kill a sleeping old man who resembled her father
  • (c) she was too afraid to look at a dead person
  • (d) she wanted Macbeth to do it himself to prove his manhood
62. When Lady Macbeth returned to her husband, she found him —-
  • (a) sleeping peacefully
  • (b) praying to God
  • (c) hesitating and full of arguments against the deed
  • (d) sharpening his dagger
63. One of the reasons Macbeth gave against murdering Duncan was that he was Duncan's —-
  • (a) subject and near kinsman
  • (b) enemy and rival
  • (c) standard-bearer
  • (d) host who should protect him from murderers
64. Macbeth also argued that as Duncan’s host, it was his duty to —-
  • (a) shut the door against his murderer, not bear the knife himself
  • (b) welcome other murderers into the house
  • (c) poison the king's food
  • (d) stay awake all night to guard him
65. Macbeth noted that Duncan had been a ruler who was —-
  • (a) tyrannical and cruel
  • (b) clear in his great office, holy, and clear from offense
  • (c) weak and easily manipulated
  • (d) universally hated by his subjects
66. Macbeth feared that Duncan's subjects would —-
  • (a) rejoice at his death
  • (b) remain indifferent
  • (c) weep aloud and be moved to revenge his murder
  • (d) immediately crown Macbeth as king
67. Besides moral arguments, Macbeth was deterred by the risk of —-
  • (a) failing the attempt
  • (b) judgment in this life and the practical consequences of the crime
  • (c) losing his wealth
  • (d) disappointing his wife
68. Lady Macbeth accused her husband of being —-
  • (a) fickle-minded and a coward in his own esteem
  • (b) overly brave and reckless
  • (c) too loyal to the state
  • (d) foolish and ignorant
69. To persuade Macbeth, Lady Macbeth used the analogy of the cat in the adage that —-
  • (a) wants to catch fish but is afraid to wet its feet
  • (b) jumps high to catch its prey
  • (c) sleeps all day and hunts at night
  • (d) always lands on its feet
70. Lady Macbeth demonstrated her own fierce resolution by claiming she would rather —-
  • (a) give up all her wealth
  • (b) dash the brains out of her own smiling infant than break a promise
  • (c) leave Scotland forever
  • (d) become a peasant
71. Lady Macbeth's practical plan to handle Duncan's two grooms (attendants) was to —-
  • (a) bribe them with gold
  • (b) kill them before killing Duncan
  • (c) intoxicate them with wine and ale till they fell into a dead sleep
  • (d) lock them in a different room
72. Lady Macbeth planned to lay the guilt of the murder upon —-
  • (a) Duncan’s sons, Malcolm and Donalbain
  • (b) Banquo and his son Fleance
  • (c) Macduff, the thane of Fife
  • (d) the two drunken grooms who slept in Duncan’s chamber
73. Moved by his wife's fierce words and concrete plan, Macbeth took the dagger and stepped into —-
  • (a) Banquo’s room
  • (b) the dark corridor
  • (c) the chamber where Duncan lay sleeping
  • (d) the castle courtyard
74. On his way to Duncan's chamber, Macbeth had a strange vision of —-
  • (a) three witches dancing around a cauldron
  • (b) a bloody dagger floating in the air with the handle toward him
  • (c) King Duncan's ghost walking the hallway
  • (d) a crown falling from the sky
75. When Macbeth tried to grasp the floating dagger, he found that —-
  • (a) it cut his hand deeply
  • (b) it vanished instantly into smoke
  • (c) it was nothing but a miserable illusion of his hot and oppressed brain
  • (d) it turned into a real weapon
76. Macbeth shook off the vision and entered the room where he killed the king with —-
  • (a) a single stroke of his dagger
  • (b) a heavy blow from a sword
  • (c) a dose of deadly poison
  • (d) his bare hands
77. Just as Macbeth committed the murder, one of the sleeping grooms in the next room —-
  • (a) screamed for help
  • (b) laughed in his sleep, and another cried, "Murder!"
  • (c) woke up and drew his sword
  • (d) began to blow a trumpet
78. When the grooms woke briefly, they said a short prayer, and one said "God bless us!", but Macbeth —-
  • (a) could not say "Amen" though he had most need of blessing
  • (b) joined them in their prayer
  • (c) killed them both immediately
  • (d) fled from the castle in fear
79. As Macbeth stood by the dead king, a strange voice seemed to cry throughout the house —-
  • (a) "Macbeth is the new king of Scotland!"
  • (b) "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep."
  • (c) "Fly, Fleance, fly!"
  • (d) "Woe to the house of Inverness!"
80. According to the phantom voice, because Macbeth murdered sleep, Glamis shall sleep no more, and —-
  • (a) Banquo shall rule the land
  • (b) Scotland shall fall to ruins
  • (c) Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more
  • (d) Lady Macbeth shall lose her mind
81. Macbeth returned to his wife in such a terrified state that he brought along —-
  • (a) the blood-stained sheets from the bed
  • (b) the daggers of the grooms, which he should have left with them
  • (c) the king's crown and robes
  • (d) a piece of the king’s clothing
82. When Macbeth flatly refused to go back into the chamber to smear the grooms with blood, Lady Macbeth —-
  • (a) began to weep and lament
  • (b) took the daggers herself to complete the frame-up
  • (c) called for the guards to arrest him
  • (d) threw the weapons out of the window
83. Lady Macbeth told her husband that the dead and the sleeping are but as —-
  • (a) shadows that pass away
  • (b) pictures, and only children fear a painted devil
  • (c) angels resting in heaven
  • (d) rotten wood that crumbles
84. When Lady Macbeth returned from the chamber, her hands were as bloody as Macbeth's, but she claimed she would shame to —-
  • (a) wash them in clean water
  • (b) wear a heart so white and cowardly as his
  • (c) look at the morning sun
  • (d) confess her deed to anyone
85. In the morning, the murder of King Duncan was discovered by —-
  • (a) Banquo and Fleance
  • (b) Macduff and Lennox, who came to call upon the king
  • (c) Malcolm and Donalbain
  • (d) the castle servants
86. When the murder came to light, Macbeth and his wife affected —-
  • (a) absolute indifference and silence
  • (b) immense grief, and Macbeth killed the two grooms pretending it was out of fury for their crime
  • (c) immediate confession to avoid further blood
  • (d) to blame the English army for an invasion
87. King Duncan's two sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, chose to flee Scotland because —-
  • (a) they were guilty of the crime themselves
  • (b) they feared the king’s murderer would target them next, as the closest heirs
  • (c) they wanted to raise an army in France immediately
  • (d) they hated their father’s memory
88. Malcolm, the elder son of Duncan, fled to —-
  • (a) Ireland
  • (b) England
  • (c) Norway
  • (d) France
89. Donalbain, the younger son of Duncan, sought safety in —-
  • (a) England
  • (b) Ireland
  • (c) Germany
  • (d) Rome
90. Due to the flight of the king's sons, the suspicion of the murder temporarily fell upon them, and Macbeth —-
  • (a) was banished from the kingdom
  • (b) was crowned king at Scone as the next powerful kinsman
  • (c) became the protector of the realm until their return
  • (d) stepped down in favor of Banquo
91. Even though Macbeth was now king, he could not enjoy his position because he remembered the prophecy that —-
  • (a) Macduff would overthrow him very soon
  • (b) his own wife would turn against him
  • (c) Banquo's children, not his own, would inherit the throne of Scotland
  • (d) he would die a painful death in battle
92. To prevent Banquo’s line from taking the crown, Macbeth decided to —-
  • (a) banish Banquo from Scotland forever
  • (b) murder both Banquo and his young son, Fleance
  • (c) adopt Fleance as his own heir
  • (d) poison the wells of Banquo’s estate
93. Macbeth arranged for the murder of Banquo and Fleance by hiring —-
  • (a) professional foreign assassins
  • (b) some desperate ruffians whom he set upon them on the road
  • (c) his own trusted castle guards
  • (d) Lady Macbeth to do the deed
94. The murderers succeeded in killing Banquo, but Fleance managed to —-
  • (a) kill one of the attackers and run away
  • (b) hide under a bridge until morning
  • (c) escape through the dark, fulfilling the witches' prediction
  • (d) ride back to the castle to inform Macbeth
95. On the night of Banquo’s murder, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth held a —-
  • (a) quiet family dinner
  • (b) solemn funeral service for King Duncan
  • (c) grand banquet for all the chief thanes of Scotland
  • (d) secret meeting with the three witches
96. During the banquet, when Macbeth went to take his seat at the table, he was horrified to see —-
  • (a) a pool of fresh blood on his plate
  • (b) the ghost of Banquo sitting in his reserved chair
  • (c) Macduff standing with a drawn sword
  • (d) the three witches standing behind his wife
97. When Macbeth saw the ghost of Banquo, his reaction to the empty space made the lords think —-
  • (a) he was playing a joke on them
  • (b) he was suffering from a sudden fit or temporary distraction
  • (c) he was plotting an execution
  • (d) he had received bad news from the war
98. Lady Macbeth tried to save the situation at the banquet by telling the guests that —-
  • (a) the king was simply playing a traditional game
  • (b) Macbeth had been prone to such brief infirmities since his youth
  • (c) the wine was poisoned and everyone should leave
  • (d) Macbeth was acting out a scene from a play
99. Macbeth addressed the ghost with wild words, but the ghost was completely —-
  • (a) visible and terrifying to everyone in the room
  • (b) invisible to everyone except Macbeth himself
  • (c) audible to the entire gathering
  • (d) vocal about how Macbeth murdered him
100. Because Macbeth's wild outbursts ruined the peace of the gathering, Lady Macbeth was forced to —-
  • (a) call for the guards to lock Macbeth away
  • (b) dismiss the lords and break up the banquet in confusion
  • (c) confess the truth about Duncan's murder to the lords
  • (d) faint to draw attention away from her husband
101. Macbeth’s sleeplessness and troubled mind drove him to seek out —-
  • (a) the advice of his chief doctors
  • (b) the three witches in their cave to know his final destiny
  • (c) Macduff for a peaceful negotiation
  • (d) a priest to confess his dark sins
102. Macbeth found the three witches in a dark cave near a heath, where they were —-
  • (a) singing hymns to the night
  • (b) preparing a horrible charm in a boiling cauldron
  • (c) sleeping on the stone floor
  • (d) plotting against Lady Macbeth
103. The ingredients the witches threw into the cauldron included —-
  • (a) sweet herbs and roots of oak trees
  • (b) adders' tongues, blind-worms' eyes, frogs' toes, and bats' fur
  • (c) poisonous berries and wild honey
  • (d) gold coins and silver dust
104. The witches cooled the boiling mixture in the cauldron with —-
  • (a) clean spring water
  • (b) fresh morning dew
  • (c) a baboon’s blood
  • (d) rain water collected from a graveyard
105. When Macbeth demanded answers, the witches chose to answer him through —-
  • (a) their own voices directly
  • (b) writing symbols on the cave wall
  • (c) their spirits or apparitions which they conjured up
  • (d) a book of ancient prophecies
106. The first apparition conjured by the witches took the shape of —-
  • (a) a bloody child
  • (b) an armed head (a head with a helmet)
  • (c) a child crowned with a tree in his hand
  • (d) the ghost of King Duncan
107. The first apparition gave Macbeth a specific warning to —-
  • (a) beware of Banquo’s return
  • (b) beware of the Thane of Fife (Macduff)
  • (c) flee from Scotland immediately
  • (d) never trust his own wife
108. The second apparition rose from the cauldron in the form of —-
  • (a) a crowned king
  • (b) a giant serpent
  • (c) a bloody child
  • (d) a pale woman
109. The second apparition told Macbeth to laugh to scorn the power of man, because —-
  • (a) no man born of a woman shall ever harm Macbeth
  • (b) he possessed a magical shield that could not be pierced
  • (c) his soldiers were completely immortal
  • (d) the English army was too weak to fight
110. Despite the second apparition's reassuring words, Macbeth decided to kill Macduff anyway to —-
  • (a) seize his vast properties immediately
  • (b) make assurance doubly sure and sleep in spite of thunder
  • (c) satisfy the demands of the three witches
  • (d) prevent him from fleeing to England
111. The third apparition that rose from the cauldron was —-
  • (a) a child crowned, with a tree in his hand
  • (b) an old man with a long white beard
  • (c) a flying raven carrying a dagger
  • (d) a mirror showing a long line of kings
112. The third apparition told Macbeth that he would never be vanquished until —-
  • (a) the sun turned black at noon
  • (b) Birnam Wood should come to Dunsinane hill against him
  • (c) the Atlantic Ocean flooded the valley of Scone
  • (d) his own castle walls crumbled into dust
113. The prophecy of the third apparition made Macbeth feel completely secure because he thought —-
  • (a) he could easily burn down any forest in Scotland
  • (b) a forest could never unroot itself or move by magic
  • (c) Dunsinane hill was far too steep for any army to climb
  • (d) he had already cut down all the trees in Birnam Wood
114. Before leaving the cave, Macbeth's heart throbbed to know one last thing: —-
  • (a) if Lady Macbeth would ever recover from her illness
  • (b) if Banquo's descendants would ever reign in Scotland
  • (c) how many years he had left to live as king
  • (d) where Macduff was hiding at that exact moment
115. In response to his last question, the cauldron sank, and Macbeth saw a vision of —-
  • (a) eight kings passing by, with the ghost of Banquo following last
  • (b) his own crown being smashed into pieces by a hammer
  • (c) the three witches being burned at the stake
  • (d) Malcolm and Donalbain riding triumphantly into Scone
116. In the vision of the eight kings, the last king held a glass (mirror) which showed —-
  • (a) Macbeth's own bloody head on a pike
  • (b) many more of Banquo's generation who should reign
  • (c) a map of England and Scotland united under one rule
  • (d) nothing but complete and empty darkness
117. Right after the witches vanished from the cave, Macbeth received news that —-
  • (a) Banquo’s ghost had returned to Inverness
  • (b) Macduff had fled to England to join Malcolm
  • (c) the king of Norway had launched a fresh invasion
  • (d) the local peasants had started a massive rebellion
118. Enraged by Macduff's flight to England, Macbeth immediately ordered his men to —-
  • (a) march south and lay siege to the border of England
  • (b) assault Macduff's castle and brutally slaughter his wife and children
  • (c) burn down the forest of Birnam to prevent the prophecy
  • (d) arrest all the remaining friends of Banquo in the city
119. This slaughter of Macduff’s innocent family had the effect of —-
  • (a) terrifying the rest of the thanes into absolute submission
  • (b) alienating Macbeth’s remaining subjects and driving Macduff to fierce revenge
  • (c) causing the English king to drop his support for Malcolm
  • (d) making the three witches regret their initial prophecies
120. In England, Macduff joined forces with Duncan's elder son, Malcolm, who had raised —-
  • (a) a massive army of ten thousand men under the command of Old Siward
  • (b) a secret band of highly trained assassins
  • (c) a fleet of warships from the coast of France
  • (d) an army consisting entirely of local Scottish exiles
121. While the rebel forces were gathering, Macbeth's domestic life collapsed because Lady Macbeth —-
  • (a) left him to join Malcolm's army in secret
  • (b) died, unable to bear the remorse of guilt and her terrible sleepwalking fits
  • (c) plotted to poison him and take the throne for herself
  • (d) confessed their crimes to the public square
122. During her sleepwalking fits, Lady Macbeth was known to repeatedly —-
  • (a) write letters to Macduff begging for mercy
  • (b) act out the washing of her hands to cleanse them of Duncan’s blood
  • (c) scream the names of the three witches aloud
  • (d) try to escape from the highest tower of Dunsinane
123. When Macbeth heard the news of his wife’s death, he responded with a tone of —-
  • (a) explosive anger and violent weeping
  • (b) cynical indifference, remarking that she should have died hereafter
  • (c) deep relief because she knew too many of his secrets
  • (d) immediate desire to surrender the crown to Malcolm
124. Macbeth shut himself up in his strongly fortified castle of —-
  • (a) Scone
  • (b) Glamis
  • (c) Dunsinane
  • (d) Inverness
125. As the English army approached Dunsinane, Malcolm ordered every soldier to —-
  • (a) march only under the cover of total darkness
  • (b) cut down a bough from Birnam Wood and bear it before him to conceal their numbers
  • (c) paint their shields white to confuse the castle scouts
  • (d) sing war songs to demoralize Macbeth's forces
126. A terrified messenger arrived at Dunsinane castle and swore to Macbeth that he saw —-
  • (a) a massive fleet of ships approaching from the river
  • (b) Birnam Wood beginning to move toward the castle hill
  • (c) the ghost of King Duncan leading the enemy vanguard
  • (d) his own soldiers setting fire to the outer courtyard
127. When Macbeth realized the forest was actually moving, he began to check his confidence and suspect —-
  • (a) that his scouts had been thoroughly bribed by the enemy
  • (b) the equivocation of the devil, who lies like truth
  • (c) that the English army possessed advanced magical powers
  • (d) that his own eyes were playing tricks on him due to lack of sleep
128. Seeing the prophecy of the moving wood come true, Macbeth decided to —-
  • (a) surrender peacefully to avoid further bloodshed
  • (b) sally out and die bravely with armor on his back
  • (c) escape through a secret underground tunnel
  • (d) hide in the deepest dungeon of Dunsinane
129. On the battlefield, Macbeth fought with desperate fury because he still relied on the prophecy that —-
  • (a) no man born of a woman could ever kill him
  • (b) his armor was blessed by the spirits of the cave
  • (c) he would live to see his grandchildren rule
  • (d) assistance from Norway would arrive by sunset
130. Macbeth easily slew many young soldiers until he finally came face to face with —-
  • (a) Malcolm
  • (b) Donalbain
  • (c) Macduff
  • (d) Fleance
131. When Macbeth first encountered Macduff, he told him to stand back because —-
  • (a) he did not want to waste his energy on a lesser warrior
  • (b) his soul was already too heavily charged with the blood of Macduff’s family
  • (c) he knew Macduff was a close relative of King Duncan
  • (d) the witches had forbidden him from fighting the Thane of Fife
132. Macbeth boasted to Macduff that it was impossible to kill him, using the words: —-
  • (a) "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born"
  • (b) "My sword cannot be broken by any mortal blade"
  • (c) "The stars themselves guard my position on this throne"
  • (d) "No man from Scotland has the power to draw my blood"
133. Macduff shattered Macbeth’s last bit of hope by revealing that —-
  • (a) he was not born in Scotland at all
  • (b) he was from his mother's womb untimely ripped (born via Caesarean section)
  • (c) he had been given an antidote to Macbeth's magic by the witches
  • (d) he was actually the biological son of Banquo
134. Hearing this, Macbeth cursed the "juggling fiends" who deceive us with —-
  • (a) false gold and empty crowns
  • (b) words that keep the word of promise to our ear, but break it to our hope
  • (c) illusions of ghosts that do not exist
  • (d) poison hidden in sweet wine
135. Macbeth initially refused to fight Macduff after this revelation, but changed his mind when Macduff threatened to —-
  • (a) torture him in the castle dungeons for years
  • (b) exhibit him as a public spectacle, painted on a pole like a rare monster
  • (c) execute all his remaining loyal officers before his eyes
  • (d) banish him to live as a beggar in a foreign desert
136. In their fierce final duel, Macduff overcame Macbeth and ended his life by —-
  • (a) running him through the heart with a pike
  • (b) pushing him off the high cliffs of Dunsinane hill
  • (c) cutting off his head
  • (d) poisoning his water flask during a break
137. Macduff presented the severed head of the tyrant Macbeth to —-
  • (a) the general public in the market square
  • (b) the young prince Malcolm, the rightful heir to the crown
  • (c) the body of his deceased wife at her grave
  • (d) Donalbain, who had just returned from Ireland
138. Following the death of the tyrant Macbeth, the crowd and the victorious army loudly acclaimed —-
  • (a) Macduff as the temporary Protector of Scotland
  • (b) Malcolm as the new King of Scotland
  • (c) Banquo’s young son Fleance as the future monarch
  • (d) Old Siward as the Earl of Dunsinane
139. The main tragic flaw that led directly to Macbeth’s ultimate downfall was his —-
  • (a) excessive jealousy of Banquo's wealth
  • (b) vaulting ambition, sparked and fed by the witches and his wife
  • (c) cowardice on the field of battle against rebels
  • (d) deep hatred for King Duncan's family line
140. Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is classified as a —-
  • (a) Romantic Comedy
  • (b) Historical Romance
  • (c) Tragic Drama (Tragedy)
  • (d) Satirical Farce
141. The original source material that Shakespeare altered to write Macbeth was —-
  • (a) Homer’s Iliad
  • (b) Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
  • (c) Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • (d) Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron
142. The setting of the majority of the events in the play is the country of —-
  • (a) England
  • (b) Ireland
  • (c) Denmark
  • (d) Scotland
143. The character who serves as a direct foil to Macbeth's growing moral corruption is —-
  • (a) Banquo, who hears the same witches but keeps his integrity
  • (b) the drunken Porter at the castle gates
  • (c) the Thane of Cawdor who died a rebel
  • (d) the King of Norway
144. The atmosphere of the opening scene of the play is defined by —-
  • (a) a bright summer morning in a royal garden
  • (b) thunder, lightning, fog, and the eerie presence of three witches
  • (c) a grand feast celebrating a wedding
  • (d) a quiet funeral service inside a cathedral
145. Lady Macbeth’s manipulation strategy heavily relied on attacking Macbeth’s —-
  • (a) military skills and strategic planning
  • (b) physical strength and appearance
  • (c) manhood and courage
  • (d) intelligence and literacy
146. The structural turning point (climax) of Macbeth's fortunes occurs when —-
  • (a) Duncan is murdered in his sleep
  • (b) Banquo is successfully killed but Fleance escapes, keeping the prophecy alive
  • (c) Macduff leaves his castle to travel south
  • (d) Lady Macbeth walks in her sleep
147. When Macbeth says "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage," he expresses a sense of —-
  • (a) absolute triumph and pride
  • (b) complete nihilism and the pointlessness of existence
  • (c) eager anticipation for his next battle
  • (d) deep love and affection for his people
148. The ultimate fate of Banquo’s line, as alluded to by the witches and history, is that —-
  • (a) they were entirely wiped out by Macbeth's assassins
  • (b) they moved to England and forgot about Scotland
  • (c) they eventually ascended the throne to fulfill the prophecy
  • (d) they became monks and gave up public life
149. The title "Thane" in the context of medieval Scotland refers to a —-
  • (a) local priest or religious official
  • (b) feudal lord or nobleman holding land directly from the king
  • (c) foreign merchant trading in the city
  • (d) common soldier in the royal infantry
150. At the very end of the play, order is fully restored to Scotland through the crowning of —-
  • (a) Macduff
  • (b) Fleance
  • (c) Malcolm
  • (d) Donalbain
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