Macbeth Test 1 Questions PDF

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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 Macbeth Test: 1) What were Banquo’s 3 prophecies? 2) What are the 3 reasons that Macbeth says as reasons to not kill Duncan/ why Duncan doesn’t deserve to die? 3) What were Macbeth’s 3 prophecies? 4) After Duncan’s murder, how did nature mirror the events? 5) What did Macbeth do that was not in the murderous plan? 6) Where did Duncan’s two sons go and why? 7) What is the significance of the rhyming couplet in Macbeth’s words to the murderers? “It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight/ It if find heaven, find it out tonight.” 8) How does sleeplessness play a part in the play? 9) Explain the roles and attitudes of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth regarding the murders of Duncan and Banquo. 10) How is Fleance’s escape a turning point for Macbeth? 11) Explain the context of the quotation: “There is grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed/ No teeth for th’ present.” Analyze the Quotes. Provide the speaker and whom they are speaking to. Provide the context (what is happening in the scene) and the significance (3 points being themes, character development, plot development, literary devices, etc). 1) “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” 2) “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth” 3) “And oftentime, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence” 4) “Yes I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th; milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it” 5) “That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal” 6) “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight, or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” 7) “Infirm of purpose Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil” 8) “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.” 9) “There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for th’ present.” 10) “Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends; I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me.”...