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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the boughs held by the army used for?
(a) Camouflage.
(b) Protection..
(c) Shade.
(d) Weapons.

2. Who of the following is NOT in attendance in the hall when the banquet begins in Act 3, Scene 4?
(a) Donalbain.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Ross.
(d) Lennox.

3. What does Macbeth see at the banquet that no one else does?
(a) Blood in the wine.
(b) A procession of devils.
(c) Banquo's ghost.
(d) The three witches.

4. What does Macduff tell Malcolm to do after they have both fled?
(a) Be strong and take up his sword.
(b) Replace his confusion with understanding and wisdom.
(c) Use his anger to find justice.
(d) Discard his fear and replace it with courage.

5. What does Macduff do when summoned by Macbeth in Act 3, Scene 6?
(a) Challenges him to a duel.
(b) Threatens his life.
(c) Refuses to come.
(d) Pretends to not hear.

6. What does Macduff call Macbeth as they fight?
(a) A pussycat.
(b) A child.
(c) A fool.
(d) A tyrant.

7. Why is Macbeth afraid when the army reaches the castle when he has been so confident until then?
(a) He cannot find his good armor.
(b) He didn't realize how large the army was.
(c) The witches warnings are coming true.
(d) He feels helpless without his wife.

8. What news terrifies Macbeth at his banquet?
(a) Banquo is dead.
(b) The murderer wants more money.
(c) Banquo's death had witnesses.
(d) Fleance escaped.

9. How does Macbeth hear that Birnam Wood is moving towards the castle?
(a) He sees it out his window.
(b) His sentry tells him.
(c) A witch prophecies it to him.
(d) He sees it in a dream.

10. What does Macbeth tell the unexpected visitor to the hall at the beginning of the banquet to do?
(a) Wash himself.
(b) Stand outside.
(c) Take a seat.
(d) Deliver his message.

11. Who is crowned king at the end of the play?
(a) Donalbain.
(b) Macduff.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Siward.

12. What is the first apparition to appear to Macbeth when he meets with the witches?
(a) A child holding a branch.
(b) An armed head.
(c) The ghost of Duncan.
(d) A bloody child.

13. Where does the first scene in Act 5 take place?
(a) A wood.
(b) Macduff's castle.
(c) An inn.
(d) An anteroom in Macbeth's castle.

14. What does the first apparition warn Macbeth against?
(a) The jealous passion of his wife.
(b) The Thane of Fife.
(c) The son of Banquo.
(d) Over-indulgance.

15. Who is Duncan's heir?
(a) Fleance.
(b) Malcolm.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Donalbain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Malcolm lie to Macduff about being a lusty man?

2. What has been happening to Lady Macbeth since Banquo's death?

3. What is Macduff doing as he flees after Banquo's death?

4. Who are speaking at the beginning of Act 5?

5. Why is Macduff's birth so important to the plot?

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