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The Macbeth Study Quiz

Question #1
In which country is Macbeth set?
a) Spain

b) Denmark

c) Scotland

d) Canada

Macbeth is set in various locations in Scotland, including Forres, Inverness, and Fife. Act 4, scene 3, however, does take place in England.

Question #2
Who is travelling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches?
a) Macduff

b) Mercutio

c) Lady Macbeth

d) Banquo

Macbeth and Banquo come across the Weird Sisters on a dark heath. We see immediately that Macbeth has a strange connection to the horrible hags, as he echoes their famous words spoken earlier in the drama: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" (1.3.38). For full explanatory notes for this scene (1.3),

Question #3
At the beginning of the play, the Scots are at war with which country?
a) Norway

b) Prussia

c) Iceland

d) Poland

At a camp near Forres, Ross reports to King Duncan that he just came from Fife, "Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold" (1.2.47). For full explanatory notes for this scene (1.2),

Question #4
Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named...
a) Angus

b) Ross

c) Fleance

d) Lenn

Banquo and his son, Fleance, are the intended murder victims of Macbeth. Although Banquo is assassinated, Fleance escapes. The survival of Fleance ensures that the Witches' prediction can come true. Banquo will beget future kings

Question #5
How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband's wild behavior at the banquet?
a) She tells the guests that Banquo's ghost is haunting Macbeth.

b) She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink.

c) She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.

d) She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan.

Lady Macbeth explains her husband's strange behavior is the result of an illness which has plagued him since youth:
Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;
The fit is momentary; upon a thought
He will again be well: if much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion:
Feed, and regard him not. (3.4.64)

Question #6
Who says, "There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood
The nearer bloody." (in 2.3)?
a) Donalbain

b) Macbeth

c) Lady Macduff

d) Fleance
Duncan's sons, Malcolm and Donalbain, are not fooled by Macbeth's assertion that the guards killed their father. They know their lives are in grave danger and Donalbain whispers:
There's daggers in men's smiles:
the near in blood, The nearer bloody. (2.3.126)
The brothers agree to flee Scotland. Malcolm will go to England and, to be extra cautious, Donalbain will go to Ireland.

Question #7
Which of the following is not an apparation shown to Macbeth by the Witches:
a) An armed head.

b) A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.

c) A bloody child.

d) A child crowned, with a tree in his hand


Macbeth sees a bloody dagger appear in the air earlier in the play, before he murders King Duncan.

Question #8
Which location is the setting for Act 5 of Macbeth?
a) Inverness

b) Dunsinane

c) Ely

d) Forres

Dunsinane is the setting of Act 5 and the location where Macbeth is slain. Although Shakespeare and the author of his primary source, Raphael Holinshed, report that Macbeth was killed at Dunsinane, the historical Macbeth actually survived the battle and was killed three years later, in 1057, by Malcolm and his army.

Question #9
Who tells Macbeth, "The queen, my lord, is dead."?
a) Seyton

b) Siward

c) The Doctor

d) Caithness

Seyton's role in the play is small but pivotal, for he informs Macbeth that Lady Macbeth is dead, prompting Macbeth's final soliloquy, "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" (5.5.19).

Question #10
Who speaks the last lines of the play?
a) Old Siward

b) Macduff

c) Malcolm

d) Donalbain

Malcolm ends the play with the controversial speech:
We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, 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:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone. (5.5.72)
Some scholars believe that someone other than Shakespeare added these final lines, for the reference to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as "this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" (81), seems to contradict the character development of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout the play. However, it must not be forgotten that Malcolm is expressing his own feelings about his nemeses.

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