Macbeth Acts 4-5 Test Questions PDF

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More test questions given to my Grade 11 University/Academic English class. We studied all of them but only select questions were on the actual test....

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Practice Acts 4-5 Macbeth Test Short Answer Questions: 1) When visiting the witches again, what 3 apparitions does Macbeth see and what does each predict for him? 2) Describe the significance of the appearance of Banquo and his lineage. 3) Why does Lady Macduff think her husband has left England? 4) In what way does the conversation between Lady Macduff and her son serve as comic relief? 5) In England, why is Malcolm at first suspicious of Macduff? 6) What 3 faults does Malcolm claim to possess, making him unfit for the crown? 7) How does Macduff eventually prove his trustworthiness to Malcolm? 8) What does Malcolm reveal to Macduff about Siward’s plans? 9) After being told about the death of his wife and family, how does Malcolm convince Macduff to use his anger against Macbeth? 10) Sleep and sleeplessness are other themes in the play. Describe Lady Macbeth’s actions during her sleepwalking. What do you think Lady Macbeth’s disturbed sleep represents? 11) How do you think the doctor feels as he realizes what Lady Macbeth has just confessed? 12) How does Macbeth’s treatment of his servant reveal his character? 13) The doctor does not help Lady Macbeth and does not satisfy Macbeth. What do you think is the purpose of having him appear in the play? 14) As the camouflaged forces move on Dunsinane, how will they look to an observer on the battlements of the castle? 15) When does Lady Macbeth die? 16) What is Macbeth’s plan for dealing with the attacking troops? Why has he been forced to choose this plan? 17) How are the apparitions’ prophecies in Act IV fulfilled in Act V? 18) At the end of the play, what has become of Macbeth? Who becomes the king? 19) The last act of Macbeth contains the play’s climax, the moment when the major character’s conflict is finally resolved. What part of Act V do you consider the conflict? What is resolved? Quotes (State whom is speaking to whom, the context and 3 significances). 1) “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One:/ two: why, then, ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky./ Fie, my Lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need/ we fear who knows it, when none can call out/ pow’r to accompt? – Yet who would have thought/ the old man to have had so much blood in him?” 2) “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!” 3) Despair thy charm,/ And let the angel whom thou still hast served/ Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb/ Untimely ripped.”

4) “… but there’s no bottom, none,/ In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,/ Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up/ The cistern of my lust and my desire” 5) “Fit to govern!/ No, not fit to live. O nation miserable!/ With an untitled tyrant bloodysceptered,/ When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again” 6) “By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes.” 7) “The castle of Macduff I will surprise,/ Seize upon Fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword/ His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls/ That trace him in his line.”...