MacBeth 30 Questions

"This test was created by Carlos Holmes in order to see how well a group of selected individuals would do when asked 30 questions from a book they should have read."

"Are you smart enough to read Macbeth and answer all 30 questions about the book correct? If so then you might be the next genius. Put your brain to the test!"

Created by: Carlos
  1. In Act I, the wounded sergeant...
  2. King Duncan thinks of Macbeth as...
  3. Macbeth ponders the witches' first prophecy. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am the Thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair This passage means that the prophecy is...
  4. Part of the witches first prophecy is that Macbeth would become king and Macbeth remarks to himself "If chance would have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir." He means that...
  5. Macbeth reveals his reluctance to kill Duncan in all of the following except...
  6. Macbeth's soliloquy beginning "Is this dagger which I see before me" shows him to be...
  7. Soon after Duncan's body is discovered, MacBeth says "There's nothing serious in mortality." This means that...
  8. Immediately following the murder of King Duncan, Macbeth appears to be...
  9. At the time of Duncan's murder, Lady Macbeth is best described as...
  10. Following the discovery of Duncan's body, Lady Macbeth faints because...
  11. At the beginning of Act III, following the murder of Duncan,
  12. Early in Act III, Lady Macbeth says "Naught's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content."
  13. In which way does Macbeth display a change in character?
  14. Upon being told that Fleance has escaped, Macbeth declares that "the worm that's fled hath that in time will venom breed. No teeth for the present." Macbeth means that Fleance...
  15. Fleance's escape could be a turning point in the play because...
  16. Towards the end of Act III, Macbeth says "Strange things I have in my head, that will to hand, which must be acted ere they may be scanned." This means that...
  17. Macbeth's decision to murder Macduff, despite the witches' prophecy that "none born of woman shall harm Macbeth," suggests that...
  18. The apparition of the bloody child represents...
  19. The scene presenting the murder of Lady Macduff and her son is useful to the play because...
  20. Lady Macduff comments "I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly." This closely parallels...
  21. The eight brief scenes of Act V...
  22. Macbeth's reaction to the news of Lady Macbeth's death...
  23. When Macbeth hears of Lady Macbeth's death, he is...
  24. It is fitting that Malcom gives the final speech of the play because...
  25. The weird sisters cannot entirely be creatures of Macbeth's imagination because...
  26. What is the main and primary cause of the tragedy?
  27. What is Macbeth's first step towards becoming a king?
  28. Who defeats Macbeth?
  29. Who is responsible for Lady Macbeth's death?
  30. Which character is King Duncan's son?

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