Macbeth MCQs with Answers


 

Multiple Type Questions based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth

 1. Duncan was the king of

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. Who was the Thane of Glamis?

A) Malcolm

B) Banquo

C) Macduff

D) Macbeth

Answer: D) Macbeth

 4.  How many witches appeared before Macbeth and Banquo when they were        

 returning  from a battlefield after achieving victory?

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) Four

Answer: C) Three

5.  The witches looked like

    A) Charming ladies

    B) Mad creatures

   C) Unearthly creatures

   D) Queens

Answer: C) Unearthly creatures

6.  The three unearthly creatures that met with Macbeth and Banquo were singing

    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

7.  The first of the three witches saluted Macbeth with the title of

     A) Thane of Glamis

     B) Thane of Cawdor

    C) King of Scotland

    D) Great General

   Answer: A) Thane of Glamis

 8.  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

 9. 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

10.  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.

 11. 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

 12. Who tried to convince Macbeth that the murder of Duncan was a necessary step        to the fulfillment of the prophecy?

A) Lady Macbeth

B) Banquo

C) Macduff

D) Malcolm

Answer: A) Lady Macbeth

13. The Name of Macbeth’s Castle was 

A) Dunsinane

B) Birnam

C) Donalbain

D) Inverness

Answer: D) Inverness

14.  Who came as a guest to the castle of Macbeth?

A) Macduff

B) Fleance

C) Duncan

D) Banquo

Answer: C) Duncan

15. 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

 16. Malcolm and Donalbain were the sons of

A) Macduff

B) Banquo

C) The Thane of Cawdor

D) Duncan

Answer: D) Duncan

 17.  Why did Macbeth initially hesitate to murder the king?

A) Because he was a close relation to the king

B) Because he was the host of the king

C) Because he was the subject of the king

D) All of the above

Answer: D) All of the Above

 18.  Who accused Macbeth of his cowardice and fickleness?

A) Malcolm

B) Dolanbain

C) Lady Macbeth

D) Banquo

Answer: C) Lady Macbeth

 19. Lady Macbeth could not kill Duncan because

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

 20. Macbeth wanted to kill Duncan because

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

 21. 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

 22.  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

23. Where did Dolanbain flee after the murder of Duncan?

A) France

B) Ireland

C) Scotland

D) England

Answer: B) Ireland

24. Who committed the regicide in the play Macbeth?

A) Macduff

B) Macbeth

C) Banquo

D) Fleance

Answer: B) Macbeth

25. Who was crowned as the king of Scotland after the death of Duncan?

A) Malcolm

B) Donalbain

C) Macbeth

D) Banquo

Answer: C) Macbeth

26. What was the name of Banquo’s son?

A) Fleance

B) Malcolm

C) Dolanbain

D) Macduff

Answer: A) Fleance

 27. 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: C) To nullify the prediction of the witches.

 28. In the Banquet, the ghost of Banquo was visible only to

A) Fleance

B) Macbeth

C) Lady Macbeth

D) Macduff

Answer: B) Macbeth

29. Macduff was the thane of

A) Cawdor

B) Ross

C) Fife

D) Glamis

Answer: C) Fife

30. Macduff’s wife and children were killed by

A) Macbeth

B) Lady Macbeth

C) Duncan

D) Fleance

Answer: A) Macbeth

31. 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 the above

Answer: D) All of these

32. Lady Macbeth was suffering from

A) Anxiety

B) Insanity

C) Somnambulism

D) Plague

Answer: C) Somnambulism

 33. How did Lady Macbeth die?

A) Getting assassinated

B) Committing suicide

C) Becoming mad

D) By the spell of witches

Answer: B) Committing suicide  

 34. 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

 

35. 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

 

36. Who instructed the soldiers to cut a branch and bear it before them?

A) Macbeth

B) Macduff

C) Malcolm

D) Fleance

Answer: B) Macduff

 37. Macbeth lost confidence when he came to know 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

38. Who finally killed Macbeth?

A) Macduff

B) Fleance

C) Malcolm

D) Ghost of Duncan

Answer: A) Macduff

39. Who became the lawful king after the death of Macbeth?

A) Macduff

B) Malcolm

C) Dolanbain

D) Fleance

Answer: B) Malcolm

40. 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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