A long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage.
What is a soliloquy?
100
The main setting of the play. (Country)
What is Scotland?
100
When Macduff asks about his family, Ross replies that " they were well at peace" when he last saw them. His statement is......
a) unwittingly true c) melodramatic and vague
b) deliberately misleading d) honestly offered but misinformed
What is b) deliberately misleading?
100
The play's first act wastes no time in giving us all of the following except...
a) an invasion c) a coldblooded murder
b) an execution d) some treacherous plotting
What is c) a coldblooded murder?
100
The play ends with the thanes acknowledging as Scotland's new and lawful king.
Who is Malcolm?
200
The purpose of a soliloquy.
What is reveal the innermost thoughts of a character?
200
Historical basis for Macbeth.
Who is King James I's family?
200
Explain the following quote from Banquo: "There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.
What is Banquo observing that it is a starless night?
200
A brief opening scene gives us which of the following?
a. A humorous supernatural episode
b. A taste of the intrigue to come
c. Several key predictions
d. A foreboding view of three influential characters
What is d) a foreboding view of three influential characters?
200
In scene 6, we learn that Macduff has gone to England to
a) escape Macbeth's tyranny
b) see his favorite son
c) gather forces to depose Macbeth
d) make peace with the English
What is c) gather forces to depose Macbeth?
300
This character in the play is an example of comic relief.
Who is the Porter?
300
These roles were traditionally played by men.
Who are women?
300
Lady Macbeth's remark that her husband is "too full o' the milk of human kindness" indicates something about Macbeth's character, but it also reveals something about her. In fact, she is...
What is ruthless?
300
In an actual stage performance of Macbeth in Elizabethan times, Act One would require all of the following except
a. offstage musicians
b. a trapdoor for the witches' exit
c. several players making entrances and exits
d. elaborate stage props and frequent scene changes
What is d) elaborate stage props and frequent scene changes?
300
In the play's opening act, Macbeth is constantly referred to as a brave soldier; in the last act he is referred to most often as a(n)...
What is a tyrant?
400
In the extended banquet scene, Macbeth chastises Banquo for being absent. The irony of the speech lies in the fact that.....
What is Banquo is present in the form of a ghost?
or
What is Macbeth killed Banquo?
400
The play Macbeth was written in honour of _____.
Who is King James I?
400
What does Macbeth admit in the following quote?
"Upon my head the placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe..."
What is Macbeth regrets the witches' prophecy that his descendants will not rule?
400
Shakespeare makes Duncan's murder seem more monstrous than it might have been by
a)picturing Macbeth as a madman by the time of the murder
b) always portraying the king in sympathetic terms
c) vividly describing the actual murder
d) making the kind appear dislike by his subjects.
What is a) picturing Macbeth as a madman by the time of the murder?
400
The murder of Lady Macduff and her children differs from that of Duncan or even Banquo because it appears to be prompted by....
What is fury and frustation?
500
This quote from Act I Scene i is an example of paradox.
What is "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" ?
500
_______ built the first English theater.
Who is James Burbage?
500
Explain the following quote from Macbeth:
" Is this dagger which I see before me,
The hand toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
What is Macbeth wavering in his decision to commit murder?
500
As Scene I of Act three opens, Banquo reveals in a short soliloquy that he...
What is suspects Macbeth killed Duncan?
500
All of the following incidents flatter Shakespeare's King and patron except:
a) the character of Banquo
b) the setting of the play
c) the assassination of the tyrant Macbeth
d) the healing of scrofula victims by King Edward
What is c) the assassination of the tyrant Macbeth?