1. Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of _____?
A:) James V
B:) James I
C:) Charles I
D:) Queen Mary
springline- Correct option: B:) James I
2. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. It was first published in the Folio of ____?
A:) 1620
B:) 1621
C:) 1622
D:) 1623
springline- Correct option: D:) 1623
3. Macbeth who is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in _____?
A:) Holinshed's Chronicles
B:) Elizabethan England
C:) Hall’s Chronicle
D:) Brut Chronicle
springline- Correct option: A:) Holinshed's Chronicles
4. Shakespeare's source for the story also from, a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of _______?
A:) 1600
B:) 1602
C:) 1605
D:) 1607
springline- Correct option: C:) 1605
5. The play opens amid thunder and lightning. The Three Witches decide that their next meeting will be with Macbeth. In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generals Macbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquo have just defeated the allied forces of Norway and _______?
A:) Roman
B:) Ireland
C:) Italy
D:) England
springline- Correct option: B:) Ireland
6. Macbeth and Banquo discuss the weather and their victory. As they wander onto a heath, the Three Witches enter and greet them with prophecies. Though Banquo challenges them first, they address Macbeth, hailing him as ‘Thane of Glamis,’ ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ and that he will ‘be King hereafter.’ Who appears to be stunned to silence ?
A:) King Duncan
B:) Lady Macbeth
C:) Banquo
D:) Macbeth
springline- Correct option: D:) Macbeth
7. Who welcomes and praises Macbeth and Banquo, and declares that he will spend the night at Macbeth's castle at Inverness; he also names his son Malcolm as his heir and Macbeth sends a message ahead to his wife, Lady Macbeth, telling her about the witches' prophecies ?
A:) King Duncan
B:) Three Witches
C:) Gentle Women
D:) Macduff
springline- Correct option: A:) King Duncan
8. While Duncan is asleep, Macbeth stabs him, despite his doubts and a number of supernatural portents, including a hallucination of a bloody dagger. He is so shaken that Lady Macbeth has to take charge. Early the next morning a Scottish nobleman, and Macduff, the loyal Thane of Fife, were arrived. Who is that Scottish nobleman?
A:) Porter
B:) Lennox
C:) Angus
D:) Seyton
springline- Correct option: B:) Lennox
9. The rightful heirs' flight makes them suspects and Macbeth assumes the throne as the new King of Scotland as a kinsman of the dead king. Who reveals this to the audience, and while sceptical of the new King Macbeth, he remembers the witches' prophecy about how his own descendants would inherit the throne; this makes him suspicious of Macbeth?
A:) Fleance
B:) Banquo
C:) Lady Macbeth
D:) King Duncan
springline- Correct option: B:) Banquo
10. Whose ghost enters and sits in Macbeth's place. Macbeth raves fearfully, startling his guests, as the ghost is only visible to him. The others panic at the sight of Macbeth raging at an empty chair, until a desperate Lady Macbeth tells them that her husband is merely afflicted with a familiar and harmless malady?
A:) King Duncan
B:) Macduff
C:) Banquo
D:) Donalbian
springline- Correct option: C:) Banquo
11. Macbeth, disturbed, visits the three witches once more and asks them to reveal the truth of their prophecies to him. First, they conjure an armoured head, which tells him to beware of Macduff . Second, a bloody child tells him that no one born of a woman will be able to harm him. Thirdly, a crowned child holding a tree states that Macbeth will be safe until Which comes to Dunsinane Hill ?
A:) Great Birnam wood
B:) Great Maple wood
C:) Great Birch Wood
D:) Great Beech wood
springline- Correct option: A:) Great Birnam wood
12. Macbeth realises that these are all Banquo's descendants having acquired kingship in numerous countries. After the witches perform a mad dance and leave, Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to ___?
A:) Scotland
B:) Ireland
C:) Italy
D:) England
springline- Correct option: D:) England
13. Lady Macbeth becomes racked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband have committed. At night, in the king's palace at Dunsinane, a doctor and Who discuss Lady Macbeth's strange habit of sleepwalking and suddenly, Lady Macbeth enters in a trance with a candle in her hand ?
A:) Three Witches
B:) gentlewoman
C:) Macduff’s son
D:) Banquo
springline- Correct option: D:) gentlewoman
14. Though Macbeth reflects on the brevity and meaninglessness of life, he nevertheless awaits the English and fortifies Dunsinane. He is certain that the witches' prophecies guarantee his invincibility, but is struck with fear when he learns that the English army is advancing on Dunsinane shielded with boughs cut from ______?
A:) Birch Wood
B:) Birnam Wood
C:) Maple wood
D:) Beech wood
springline- Correct option: B:) Birnam Wood
15. The English forces overwhelm his army and castle. Macbeth boasts that he has no reason to fear Macduff, for he cannot be killed by any man born of woman. Who declares that he was ‘from his mother's womb / Untimely ripp'd’ and is not ‘of woman born’ (an example of a literary quibble), fulfilling the second prophecy?
A:) Lady Macbeth
B:) Banquo
C:) Macbeth
D:) Macduff
springline- Correct option: D:) Macduff
16. A principal source comes from the Daemonologie of King James published in 1597 which included a news pamphlet titled Newes from Scotland that detailed the famous North Berwick Witch Trials of _____?
A:) 1590
B:) 1592
C:) 1594
D:) 1596
springline- Correct option: A:) 1590
17. The publication of Daemonologie came just a few years before the tragedy of Macbeth with the themes and setting in a direct and comparative contrast with King James' personal obsessions with witchcraft, which developed following his conclusion that the stormy weather that threatened his passage from Denmark to _____?
A:) England
B:) Scotland
C:) Ireland
D:) Naples
springline- Correct option: B:) Scotland
18. Shakespeare borrowed the story from several tales in Holinshed's Chronicles, a popular history of the British Isles well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. In Chronicles, a man named Donwald finds several of his family put to death by his king, ______?
A:) Duff
B:) Iris
C:) Duncan
D:) Angus
springline- Correct option: A:) Duff
19. Macbeth has a long, ten-year reign before eventually being overthrown by Macduff and Malcolm. The parallels between the two versions are clear. However, some scholars think that Whose work of Rerum Scoticarum Historia matches Shakespeare's version more closely?
A:) Thomas Gray
B:) George Buchanan
C:) James Hogg
D:) Thomas Moore
springline- Correct option: B:) George Buchanan
20. No medieval account of the reign of Macbeth mentions the Weird Sisters, Banquo, or Lady Macbeth, and with the exception of the latter none actually existed. The characters of Banquo, the Weird Sisters, and Lady Macbeth were first mentioned in 1527 by a Scottish historian. Hector Boece in his in his book ______?
A:) Evonium
B:) Sleuth Hound
C:) A Sicilian Romance
D:) Historia
springline- Correct option: D:) Historia
21. Who portrayed Banquo as an ancestor of the Stewart kings of Scotland, adding in a ‘prophecy’ that the descendants of Banquo would be the rightful kings of Scotland while the Weird Sisters served to give a picture of King Macbeth as gaining the throne via dark supernatural forces ?
A:) Ann Radcliffe
B:) William Becford
C:) Hector Boece
D:) James Hogg
springline- Correct option: C:) Hector Boece
22. Who had in his possession A Treatise on Equivocation, and in the play the Weird Sisters often engage in equivocation, for instance telling Macbeth that he could never be overthrown until ‘Great Birnan wood to high Dunsinane hill/Shall Come’?
A:) Hector Boece
B:) Henry James
C:) Henry Garnet
D:) George Peter
springline- Correct option: C:) Henry Garnet
23. For many critics, Macbeth's motivations in the first act appear vague and insufficient. Who hypothesised that Shakespeare's original text had an extra scene or scenes where husband and wife discussed their plans. This interpretation is not fully provable; however, the motivating role of ambition for Macbeth is universally recognized?
A:) William Beckford
B:) I.A. Richards
C:) Henry Garnet
D:) John Dover Wilson
springline- Correct option: D:) John Dover Wilson
24. All theatres were closed down by the Puritan government on 6 September 1642. Upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, two patent companies (the King's Company and the Duke's Company) were established, and the existing theatrical repertoire divided between them. Who was a founder of the Duke's Company, adapted Shakespeare's play to the tastes of the new era, and his version would dominate on stage for around eighty years ?
A:) John Dover Wilson
B:) Sir William Davenant
C:) Sir Thomas More
D:) Edward Gibbon
springline- Correct option: B:) Sir William Davenant
25. Who was the most successful of the late-Victorian actor-managers, but his Macbeth failed to curry favour with audiences and his desire for psychological credibility reduced certain aspects of the role also Who described Macbeth as a brave soldier but a moral coward, and played him untroubled by conscience – clearly already contemplating the murder of Duncan before his encounter with the witches?
A:) Edward Gibbon
B:) Henry James
C:) John Dover Wilson
D:) Henry Irving
springline- Correct option: D:) Henry Irving
26. Macbeth's generally accepted indebtedness to medieval tragedy is often seen as significant in the play's treatment of moral order. Glynne Wickham connects the play, through the Porter, to a mystery play on the harrowing of hell. Who argues that the play has a more complex attitude toward ‘orthodox Christian tragedy’ than is often admitted; he sees a kinship between the play and the tyrant plays within the medieval liturgical drama?
A:) Howard Felperin
B:) Henry Irvin
C:) Harold Bloom
D:) I.A. Richards
springline- Correct option: A:) Howard Felperin
27. Macbeth was first printed in the First Folio of 1623 and the Folio is the only source for the text. Some scholars contend that the Folio text was abridged and rearranged from an earlier manuscript or prompt book. Often cited as interpolation are stage cues for two songs, whose lyrics are not included in the Folio but are included in Thomas Middleton's play ______?
A:) Women Beware
B:) The Witch
C:) The Revenger
D:) The Roaring Girl
springline- Correct option: B:) The Witch
28. In one sermon in 1605, Lancelot Andrewes stated, regarding the failure of the Plotters on God's day, ‘Be they fair or foul, glad or sad (as the poet calleth Him) the great Diespiter, 'the Father of days' hath made them both.’ Shakespeare begins the play by using the words ‘fair’ and ‘foul’ in the first speeches of Macbeth and the____?
A:) Banquo
B:) Lady Macbeth
C:) King Duncan
D:) witches
springline- Correct option: D:) witches
29. Macbeth was a play for a post-Elizabethan England facing up to what it might mean to have a Scottish king. England seems comparatively benign, while its northern neighbour is mired in a bloody, monarch-killing past. ... Macbeth may have been set in medieval Scotland, but it was filled with material of interest to England and England's ruler. Whose words is this?
A:) William Beckford
B:) Henry Irvin
C:) Robert Crawford
D:) Glynne Wickham
springline- Correct option: C:) Robert Crawford
30. Macbeth; One of the evidenced passages is referenced when the women under trial confessed to attempt the use of witchcraft to raise a tempest and sabotage the boat King James and his queen were on board during their return trip from Denmark. The three witches discuss the raising of winds at sea in the opening lines of ___?
A:) Act 2 scene 3
B:) Act 2 scene 1
C:) Act 1 scene 2
D:) Act 1 Scene 3
springline- Correct option: D:) Act 1 Scene 3