Q.1
Of what is Macbeth as guilty as the previous Thane of Cawdor?
  • Treason
  • Regicide (murder of a king)
  • Cowardice
  • The practice of magic
Q.2
Macbeth is introduced to the audience as a valiant warrior, for which Duncan rewards him with the title, Thane of Cawdor. Which of the following responses to this honour does Macbeth share with his Lady?
  • They both receive the news with indifference
  • They both respond to the news with disappointment
  • They both respond to the news with ambition and a hunger for more power
  • All of the above
Q.3
Which of the following quotations does NOT imply that women are less violent, or valiant, than men?
  • "Unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty"
  • "Bring forth men-children only; / For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males"
  • "Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done't"
  • "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me"
Q.4
How do the witches' prophecies affect the outcome of events in the play?
  • The witches' prophecies cause all of the events in the play without any help from human action
  • The witches' prophecies do not change any of the events of the play, all of which would certainly have come about through Macbeth's own action
  • The witches' prophecies both recognise and feed Macbeth's existing characteristics, including superstition, violence and ambition
  • The witches' prophecies are irrelevant to the outcome of events in the play
Q.5
Besides Duncan, who is presented as a model of good kingship in the play?
  • Sweno
  • Macbeth
  • James I
  • Edward the Confessor
Q.6
The witches take credit for....
  • Killing sheep
  • Causing storms
  • Causing a shipwreck
  • All of the above
Q.7
Macduff's wife compares herself to which of the following?
  • A wren
  • An owl
  • A monkey
  • A ghost
Q.8
begins and ends in war. In Act One, Scene One, the witches discuss the events of the battlefield and in Act Five, Scene Nine, Malcolm is presented with Macbeth's head. Which of the following lines from his final monologue does NOT refer to the violent events of the play?
  • "Calling home our exiled friends abroad / That fled the snares of watchful tyranny"
  • "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"
  • "By self and violent hands / Took off her life"
  • "This, and what needful else, / That calls upon us, by the grace of grace, / We will perform in measure, time and place"
Q.9
"Away and mock the time with fairest show: / False face must hide what false heart doth know." What is meant by "false" in these lines?
  • Untrustworthy
  • Different in reality from what ought to be true
  • Different in appearance from reality
  • All of the above
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