Antonia Blankenberg
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How well do you know your Macbeth quotes? Are you up to speed with who responsible for murdering who? Play this Macbeth quiz to ensure that you are up to speed with all the key details of the play.

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Macbeth Quiz

Question 1 of 17

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Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Till he unseam'd him from the to the ,
And fix'd his upon our battlements."

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Question 2 of 17

1

Which title did Macbeth have at the beginning of the play?

Select one of the following:

  • Thane of Cawdor

  • Thane of Glamis

  • Thane of Ross

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Question 3 of 17

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make my blood.
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for , you murd'ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief."

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Question 4 of 17

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"I have given , and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his
And out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this."

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Question 5 of 17

1

Duncan has three sons.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 6 of 17

1

What does Macbeth have a vision of before he goes to kill Duncan?

Select one of the following:

  • A dagger

  • Himself becoming king

  • Banquo's children becoming king

  • Malcolm becoming king

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Question 7 of 17

1

Why does Lady Macbeth not want to kill Duncan herself?

Select one of the following:

  • He looks like her father

  • She doesn't like blood

  • She thinks it's a man's job

  • She is afraid to get caught

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Question 8 of 17

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Will all great ’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the one ."

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Question 9 of 17

1

Who discovers Duncan's death?

Select one of the following:

  • Malcolm

  • Macduff

  • Lennox

  • Donalbain

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Question 10 of 17

1

Murderers kill both Fleance and Banquo.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 11 of 17

1

Fill the blank space to complete the text.

Who is the goddess of witchcraft?

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Question 12 of 17

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Who says this line:
"Not in the legions
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned
In evils to top Macbeth."

Select one of the following:

  • Macduff

  • Malcolm

  • Ross

  • Lennox

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Question 13 of 17

1

How many times does Banquo's ghost appear to Macbeth?

Select one of the following:

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

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Question 14 of 17

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Out, damned ! Out, I say! . . . Yet who would have thought the to have had so much in him."

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Question 15 of 17

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"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

Macbeth says this quote after which event?

Select one of the following:

  • Lady Macbeth dies

  • Duncan is found dead

  • He is defeated in battle

  • The witches tell him that Banquo's descendants will take the throne

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Question 16 of 17

1

Fill the blank spaces to complete the text.

"Thou wast born of .
But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,
Brandished by man that’s of a ."

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Question 17 of 17

1

In what year was Macbeth first performed?

Select one of the following:

  • 1606

  • 1503

  • 1708

  • 1804

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