1) Duncan was the king of – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2014]
A) Ireland
B) England
C) Scotland
D) France
Answer: C) Scotland
2) By nature, King Duncan was –
A) cruel
B) benevolent
C) foolish
D) tyrant
Answer: B) benevolent
3) Why was Macbeth held in great esteem throughout Scotland?
A) as he was a near kinsman to Duncan
B) for his great valour and skill in wars
C) as he was the Thane of Glamis
D) All of these
Answer: B) for his great valour and skill in wars
4) Who was the Thane of Glamis?
A) Malcolm
B) Banquo
C) Macduff
D) Macbeth
Answer: D) Macbeth
5) How many weird sisters appeared before Macbeth and Banquo when they returned from a battlefield victoriously?
A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
Answer: C) three
6) The witches looked like – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2015, 2018]
A) charming ladies
B) mad creatures
C) unearthly creatures
D) queens
Answer: C) unearthly creatures
7) Three unearthly creatures that met with Macbeth and Banquo were singing – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2016]
A) Heave ho
B) fair is foul and foul is fair
C) Hey and a ho a hey mnnino
D) A vault
Answer: B) fair is foul and foul is fair
8) Macbeth was saluted as the ‘Thane of Glamis’ by – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2017]
A) Banquo
B) the first witch
C) the second witch
D) the third witch
Answer: B) the first witch
9) The first of the three witches saluted Macbeth with the title of – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 20119]
A) Thane of Glamis
B) Thane of Cawdor
C) King of Scotland
D) Great General
Answer: A) Thane of Glamis
10) Who greeted Macbeth as ‘the Thane of Cawdor’?
A) Banquo
B) the first witch
C) the second witch
D) the third witch
Answer: C) the second witch
11) Who predicted that Macbeth would be the king of Scotland?
A) Duncan
B) the first witch
C) the second witch
D) the third witch
Answer: D) the third witch
12) How did the witches speak to Banquo?
A) in mysterious terms
B) in riddling terms
C) in weird languages
D) in simple words
Answer: B) in riddling terms
13) “Lesser than Macbeth and Greater”. The man who was talked about was – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2019]
A) Macduff’s father
B) an Irish general
C) Malcom’s father
D) Banquo
Answer: D) Banquo
14) What did the witches tell Banquo?
A) he would be the King of Scotland
B) he would be the Thane of Cawdor
C) he would be the Thane of Glamis
D) his successors would be the kings.
Answer: D) his successors would be the kings.
15) What was the effect of the prophecies on Macbeth?
A) he became horrified
B) entirely changed the course of his life
C) kindle the hope in his heart
D) he was wrapped in amazement
Answer: B) entirely changed the course of his life
16) What was the nature of Lady Macbeth?
A) evil minded, ambitious woman
B) kind woman
C) clever woman
D) good-natured woman
Answer: A) evil minded, ambitious woman
17) The prophesy of the witches filled Lady Macbeth with –
A) hope
B) ambition
C) love
D) hatred
Answer: B) ambition
18) Who tried to convince Macbeth that the murder of Duncan was a necessary step to the fulfilment of the prophecy?
A) Lady Macbeth
B) Banquo
C) Macduff
D) Malcolm
Answer: A) Lady Macbeth
19) The Name of Macbeth’s Castle was – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2017]
A) Dunsinane
B) Birnam
C) Donalbain
D) Inverness
Answer: D) Inverness
20) Who came as a guest to the castle of Macbeth?
A) Macduff
B) Fleance
C) Duncan
D) Banquo
Answer: C) Duncan
21) What was the purpose of Duncan’s Visit to Macbeth’s castle?
A) to surprise him
B) to honour him
C) to arrest him
D) to present him with a gift
Answer: B) to honour him
22) Malcolm and Donalbain were the sons of – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2015, 2018]
A) Macduff
B) Banquo
C) The Thane of Cawdor
D) Duncan
Answer: D) Duncan
23) Why did Lady Macbeth awake in the middle of the night?
A) to take her dinner
B) to consult with the witches
C) to plot the murder of the king.
D) none of these
Answer: C) to plot the murder of the king.
24) Who accompanied Duncan when he went to sleep?
A) Macbeth
B) his two sons
C) two generals
D) two grooms
Answer: D) two grooms
25) Who, at first, went to the king’s chamber with a dagger?
A) Macbeth
B) Lady Macbeth
C) Banquo
D) Fleance
Answer: B) Lady Macbeth
26) Why did Lady Macbeth fail to kill Duncan?
A) as he was the king of Scotland
B) as her husband had a close relationship with Duncan
C) as the king resembled her father.
D) as the king was so benevolent
Answer: C) as the king resembled her father.
27) Why did Macbeth hesitate to murder the king?
A) as he had a close relation to the king
B) as he was the host of the king
C) as he was the subject of the king
D) all of these
Answer: D) all of these
28) Who accused Macbeth of his cowardice and fickleness?
A) Malcolm
B) Dolanbain
C) Lady Macbeth
D) Banquo
Answer: C) Lady Macbeth
29) Lady Macbeth could not kill Duncan because – [Annual Exam. Class 11, 2014]
A) Duncan resembled her father
B) Macbeth did not allow her
C) There were guards sitting at the door
D) She was weak and irresolute
Answer: A) Duncan resembled her father
30) What did Macbeth visualise when he was advancing towards the king’s bed chamber?
A) a blood-stained head floating in the air.
B) a dagger hanging in the air.
C) a sword hanging in the air.
D) three witches
Answer: B) a dagger hanging in the air.
31) Macbeth slew the old king with –
A) one stroke
B) two strokes
C) three strokes
D) four strokes
Answer: A) one stroke
32) Macbeth wanted to kill Duncan because – [Sample Question, WBCHSE]
A) The witches told him to do so
B) Duncan was his enemy
C) he wanted to be the king
D) he wanted to take revenge on Duncan
Answer: C) he wanted to be the king
33) After killing Duncan, Macbeth felt that he heard a voice saying –
A) Macbeth will sleep no more
B) Duncan will sleep no more
C) Banquo will sleep no more
D) Scotland will sleep no more
Answer: A) Macbeth will sleep no more
34) Who stained the cheeks of the grooms with blood?
A) Macbeth
B) Malcolm
C) Lady Macbeth
D) Dolanbain
Answer: C) Lady Macbeth
35) Why did Lady Macbeth stain the cheeks of the grooms with blood?
A) in order to make it seem their guilt
B) in order to prove they were drunkard
C) in order to prove they were sleeping
D) all of these
Answer: A) in order to make it seem their guilt
36) Immediately after the murder of the king, Malcolm fled to –
A) English Court
B) Norwegian Court
C) Scottish Court
D) Irish Court
Answer: A) English Court
37) Where did Dolanbain flee after the death of the king?
A) France
B) Ireland
C) Scotland
D) England
Answer: B) Ireland
38) Who committed the regicide in the play Macbeth?
A) Macduff
B) Macbeth
C) Banquo
D) Fleance
Answer: B) Macbeth
39) Who was crowned as the king of Scotland after the death of Duncan?
A) Malcolm
B) Donalbain
C) Macbeth
D) Banquo
Answer: C) Macbeth
40) What was the name of Banquo’s son?
A) Fleance
B) Malcolm
C) Dolanbain
D) Macduff
Answer: A) Fleance
41) Why did Macbeth plan to kill Banquo and his son?
A) to take revenge
B) to perform the order of the witches
C) To nullify the prediction of the witches.
D) none of these
Answer: D) To nullify the prediction of the witches.
42) Macbeth appointed some hired _________ to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance.
A) grooms
B) soldiers
C) envoys
D) assassins
Answer: D) assassins
43) Who managed to escape from the assassins?
A) Banquo
B) Fleance
C) Macduff
D) Dolanbain
Answer: B) Fleance
44) In the Banquet, the ghost of Banquo was only visible to –
A) Fleance
B) Macbeth
C) Lady Macbeth
D) Macduff
Answer: B) Macbeth
45) Where did Banquo’s ghost sit?
A) on the floor
B) on his reserved seat.
C) among the thanes and noble men
D) beside his son
Answer: B) on his reserved seat.
46) Why did Lady Macbeth dismiss the guests from the banquet?
A) as they saw Banquo’s ghost
B) Assassins might hide in the crowd
C) Macbeth might be killed
D) Fearing the dreadful secret would be disclosed.
Answer: D) Fearing the dreadful secret would be disclosed.
47) Why did Macbeth decide to go to the heath again?
A) In search of the ghost of Banquo
B) In search of the witches
C) In search of the assassins
D) In search of absconding Fleance
Answer: B) In search of the witches
48) Where did Macbeth find the witches?
A) in a castle
B) in a battlefield
C) in a cave
D) in a tunnel
Answer: C) in a cave
49) The witches boiled their horrid ingredients in a –
A) huge bowl
B) huge cauldron
C) huge pan
D) huge pitcher
Answer: B) huge cauldron
50) How were the boiling ingredients cooled down?
A) with baboon’s blood
B) with lizard’s blood
C) with dragon’s blood
D) with goat’s blood
Answer: A) with baboon’s blood
51) Who appeared before Macbeth like an armed head?
A) The first witch
B) The second witch
C) The third witch
D) The ghost of Banquo
Answer: A) The first witch
52) What did the first spirit tell Macbeth?
A) Beware of Lady Macbeth
B) Beware of the Thane of Fife.
C) Beware of Fleance
D) Beware of Malcolm
Answer: B) Beware of the Thane of Fife.
53) The second spirit appeared like –
A) armed head
B) bloody child
C) crowned child
D) a child with a tree in hand
Answer: B) bloody child
55) What did the second spirit tell Macbeth?
A) to beware of Macduff
B) to have no fear of a man who was naturally born of a woman’s womb
C) he would never be vanquished until the Birnam woods would move towards Dunsinane.
D) no need to fear Macduff
Answer: B) to have no fear of a man who was naturally born of a woman’s womb
56) How did the third witch appear before Macbeth?
A) like a bloody child
B) like an armed head
C) crowned child with dagger in hand
D) crowned child with a tree in hand
Answer: D) crowned child with tree in hand
57) What did the third spirit tell Macbeth?
A) to beware of Macduff
B) to have no fear of a man who was naturally born of a woman’s womb
C) he would never be vanquished until the Birnam woods would be destroyed
D) he would never be vanquished until the Birnam woods would move towards Dunsinane.
Answer: D) he would never be vanquished until the Birnam woods would move towards Dunsinane.
58) Macduff was the thane of – [Annual Exam, Class 11, 2016]
A) Cawdor
B) Ross
C) Fife
D) Glamis
Answer: C) Fife
59) When Macbeth asked the witches if Banquo’s issue shall ever reign the kingdom, the witches showed him _________ shadow-figures.
A) six
B) seven
C) eight
D) nine
Answer: C) eight
60) Macduff’s wife and children were killed by –
A) Macbeth
B) Lady Macbeth
C) Duncan
D) Fleance
Answer: A) Macbeth
61) Why did Macduff flee to England?
A) to take revenge on Macbeth
B) to join the army under Malcolm.
C) to displace Macbeth and set Malcolm as a rightful heir
D) all of these
Answer: D) all of these
62) Who was the sole partner in the wickedness of Macbeth?
A) the witches
B) Lady Macbeth
C) Banquo
D) Macduff
Answer: B) Lady Macbeth
63) Lady Macbeth was suffering from –
A) anxiety
B) insanity
C) somnambulism
D) plague
Answer: C) somnambulism
64) How did Lady Macbeth die?
A) getting assassinated
B) committing suicide
C) becoming mad
D) by the spell of witches
Answer: B) committing suicide
65) Why did Lady Macbeth commit suicide?
A) she became mad
B) she grew careless and longed for death
C) she was unable to bear the insult of her husband
D) she was unable to bear the remorse of guilt
Answer: D) She was unable to bear the remorse of guilt
66) Who informed Macbeth that the Birnam woods were moving towards the castle?
A) a messenger
B) a friend
C) a soldier
D) a thane
Answer: A) a messenger
67) The Birnam woods were moving towards the castle. It was actually –
A) a hallucination
B) the marching of soldiers with boughs in hand
C) the trees were being moved to Dunsinane by the witches
D) a fancy created by the subdued mind of Macbeth
Answer: B) the marching of soldiers with boughs in hand
68) Who instructed the soldiers to cut a branch and bear it before them?
A) Macbeth
B) Macduff
C) Malcolm
D) Fleance
Answer: B) Macduff
69) Macbeth lost confidence when he came to that Macduff was not naturally born but –
A) was sent by god
B) was created by the spell of witchcraft
C) was untimely taken out of his mother’s womb
D) a ghost
Answer: C) was untimely taken out of his mother’s womb
70) Macbeth considered that the prophecy made by the witches had –
A) no meaning
B) single meaning
C) equivocal meaning
D) many meanings
Answer: C) equivocal meaning
71) Who severed Macbeth’s head?
A) Macduff
B) Fleance
C) Malcolm
D) ghost of Duncan
Answer: A) Macduff
72) Who was the young and lawful king?
A) Macduff
B) Malcolm
C) Dolanbain
D) Fleance
Answer: B) Malcolm
73) What did Macduff present to Malcolm?
A) A bouquet of flowers
B) a diamond ring
C) a castle
D) severed head of Macbeth
Answer: D) severed head of Macbeth
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