🌹 ENGLISH SLST:: Macbeth-William Shakespeare::Basic Information and MCQ Questions with Answers.🌹

📚Basic Information 📚

👉Dramatist: William Shakespeare.

National Poet of England.
Bard of Avon.

Birth: 23rd April, 1564, Stratford-on-Avon, England.
Death: 23rd April, 1616.

Father: John Shakespeare.
Mother: Mary Arden
Son: Hamnet
Daughters: Susanna, Judith
Brother: Gilbert

Literary Works: 36/37 plays (38/39),
154 sonnets, 3 narrative poems

First Title of the play: Tragedie of Macbeth

👉Sources:

Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577,1587). The supernatural portion was taken from James I’s Essay on Daemonologie (1597) and from Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft (1548).

Another source of Macbeth was History of Scotland(1582) by George Buchanan. Original chronicle by Andro and William Steward’s Book of the Chronicles of Scotland and A Ballad of Macbeth.

👉Background:

The play is loosely based on events concerning the real Macbeth who was the King of Scotland for 17 years from 1040–57. Shakespeare read about Macbeth in a storybook called The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland by Raphael Holinshed. Using stories from the book and adding ideas of his own, he wrote the play.

👉Written:

1603–1610 (c. 1605 or 1606)
April–July 1606(most probably)

👉Staged:
It was first performed at Hampton Court in 1606 (August) for King James I and his brother-in-law, King Christian of Denmark.
Later it was staged at Globe Theatre in 1611.

👉Publication:
It was published in The First Folio in 1623.

👉Type:
Dramatic play, Tragedy

👉Setting:

Scotland
England
Inverness – Macbeth’s castle
Forres – Duncan’s castle
Fife – Macduff’s castle
Birnam Wood – the forest near Dunsinane Hill
Dunsinane Hill – the hill on which Macbeth’s castle stands

👉Theme:

Good vs Evil
The dangers of ambition
The influences of supernatural forces
The contrast between appearance and reality, loyalty and guilt.

👉Character List:

Total 8 Thanes are mentioned in Macbeth:

Glamis – Macbeth
Lochaber – Banquo
Fife – Macduff
Ross –
Angus –
Menteith –
Cawdor –
Caithness –

Speaking characters – 40.

Major – 5
Minor – (unspecified)

Duncan: The good-natured, honest, and trustworthy King of Scotland.
Macbeth: One of Duncan’s most courageous generals.
Lady Macbeth: Macbeth’s wife.
Banquo: A general in Duncan’s army.
Macduff: A Scottish general who suspects Macbeth of murdering Duncan.
Lady Macduff: Macduff’s wife.
Boy: Son of Macduff.
Malcolm: Duncan’s elder son. He flies to England after his father’s assassination.
Donalbain: Duncan’s younger son. He flies to Ireland after his father is murdered.
Lennox: One of Duncan’s nobles, he functions largely as an observer in the play.

Ross: A cousin of Macduff. He acts as a messenger in the play.

Old Siward: Earl of Northumberland, an English ally of Malcolm and Macduff.

Young Siward: Siward’s son. Killed by Macbeth in hand-to-hand combat.

Seyton: Macbeth’s assistant in the play.

Hecate: The queen of the witches.

The Three Witches: Supernatural agents of fate.

Porter: The keeper of Macbeth’s castle who drunkenly imagines that he is the gatekeeper of hell.
Fleance – Banquo’s son.

👉Acts / Scenes:

5 Acts / 29 Scenes (74639)

Act I – 7 scenes
Act II – 4 scenes
Act III – 6 scenes
Act IV – 3 scenes
Act V – 9 scenes

👉Summary:

Act I

Scene I
⇒ The supernatural scene / The witch scene.
Setting: A deserted place in Scotland.

Scene II
⇒ Macbeth’s signal victory / Bleeding captain scene.
Setting: A camp near Forres.

Scene III
⇒ Temptation scene
Setting: A heath near Forres

Scene IV
⇒ Duncan’s proposal to go to Macbeth’s castle.
Setting: Forres, Duncan’s palace.

Scene V
⇒ Lady Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan.
Setting: Inverness, Macbeth’s castle.

Scene VI

⇒ Duncan's entry into Macbeth's castle.
Setting: Before Macbeth's castle.

Scene VII
⇒ The temptation of Macbeth by the fourth witch, Lady Macbeth.
Setting: Macbeth's castle.

Act II

Scene I
⇒ The Dagger Scene.
Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

Scene II
⇒ The murder of King Duncan.
Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

Scene III
⇒ The discovery of the murder and the Porter Scene.
Setting: Court of Macbeth's castle.

Scene IV

⇒ The King's funeral.
Setting: Outside Macbeth's castle.

Act III

Scene I
⇒ Macbeth's conspiracy against Banquo.
Setting: Forres. The palace.

Scene II
⇒ Lady Macbeth's disillusionment.
Setting: The palace.

Scene III
⇒ Murder of Banquo.
Setting: A park near the palace.

Scene IV
⇒ Banquet scene.
Setting: The same hall in the palace.

Scene V

⇒ Hecate’s proposal to show the magic powers of her art to Macbeth.
Setting: A heath.

Scene VI
⇒ Forres. The palace. Macbeth’s defeat.
Setting: Forres, The palace.

Act IV

Scene I
⇒ Macbeth’s meeting the witches for the second time.
Setting: A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.

Scene II
⇒ The horrible massacre of Macduff.
Setting: Macduff’s castle, Fife.

Scene III
⇒ The enemies of Macbeth are gaining weight.

Setting: England, before the King’s palace.

Act V

Scene I
➔ The sleep-walking of Lady Macbeth.
➔ Setting: Dunsinane, a room in the castle.

Scene II
➔ The enemies are gaining ground.
➔Setting: The country near Dunsinane.

Scene III
➔ Macbeth expressing world’s weariness.
➔Setting: Dunsinane, a room in the castle.

Scene IV
➔ Macbeth's offensive tactics and his skillful leadership.
➔Setting: Country near Dunsinane Wood.

Scene V
➔ Sad demise of Lady Macbeth.

➔Setting: Dunsinane, within the castle.

Scene VI

➔ Preparation for the last fight
➔Setting: Dunsinane, before the castle

Scene VII
➔ The utter overthrow of Macbeth.
➔Setting: Another part of the field

Scene VIII
➔ The fighting between Macbeth and Macduff.
➔Setting: Another part of the field

Scene IX
➔ The final death of Macbeth
➔Setting: Dunsinane, within the castle

👉Stanza Forms:

Prose and Poetry

Blank Verse (Iambic Pentameter)

Trochaic Tetrameter

Enjambment

Speech – Ending

✍️MCQ QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS:

1. Who is the dramatist of the play Macbeth?
A. Christopher Marlowe B. William Wordsworth C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson.
Answer: C. William Shakespeare.

2. What is the nationality of William Shakespeare?
A. Scottish B. Irish C. English D. Welsh.
Answer: C. English.

3. When was William Shakespeare born?
A. 23rd April, 1564 B. 23rd April, 1616 C. 23rd April, 1564 D. 15th March, 1600.
Answer: A. 23rd April, 1564.

4. Which of the following is the correct title of the play Macbeth?
A. The Tragedie of Macbeth B. Macbeth and Banquo C. The Tragedie of Macbeth D. Macbeth the King.
Answer: A. The Tragedie of Macbeth.

5. From which source did Shakespeare take the supernatural elements for Macbeth?
A. The Bible B. James I’s Essay on Daemonologie C. The Canterbury Tales D. Plutarch’s Lives.
Answer: B. James I’s Essay on Daemonologie.

6. What is the setting of Macbeth?
A. England only B. Scotland only C. Scotland and England D. Ireland only.
Answer: C. Scotland and England.

7. Where was Macbeth first performed?
A. Globe Theatre B. Hampton Court C. The Rose Theatre D. Blackfriars Theatre.
Answer: B. Hampton Court.

8. In which year was Macbeth first published in The First Folio?
A. 1606 B. 1611 C. 1623 D. 1597.
Answer: C. 1623.

9. How many acts are there in Macbeth?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6.
Answer: C. 5.

10. Who is Macbeth’s wife?
A. Lady Macduff B. Lady Macbeth C. Lady Banquo D. Lady Lennox.
Answer: B. Lady Macbeth.

11. Which character is a Scottish general suspecting Macbeth of murder?
A. Banquo B. Macduff C. Malcolm D. Ross.
Answer: B. Macduff.

12. What is the relationship between Malcolm and Donalbain?
A. Father and son B. Brothers C. Cousins D. Enemies.
Answer: B. Brothers.

13. Who is the queen of the witches in Macbeth?
A. Lady Macbeth B. Hecate C. Lady Macduff D. The First Witch.
Answer: B. Hecate.

14. What is the total number of speaking characters mentioned in Macbeth?
A. 20 B. 30 C. 40 D. 50.
Answer: C. 40.

15. Which Thane title does Macbeth hold?
A. Lochaber B. Glamis C. Fife D. Ross.
Answer: B. Glamis.

16. Which forest is near Dunsinane Hill in the play?
A. Sherwood Forest B. Birnam Wood C. Black Forest D. Greenwood.
Answer: B. Birnam Wood.

17. Who is the son of Banquo?
A. Macduff B. Fleance C. Seyton D. Young Siward.
Answer: B. Fleance.

18. Which scene is known as the 'Dagger Scene' in Macbeth?
A. Act I, Scene II B. Act II, Scene I C. Act III, Scene I D. Act V, Scene I.
Answer: B. Act II, Scene I.

19. Which king is murdered in Macbeth?
A. Duncan B. Macbeth C. Malcolm D. Siward.
Answer: A. Duncan.

20. Who is the porter in Macbeth?
A. The keeper of Macbeth’s castle B. Macbeth’s general C. Duncan’s messenger D. Lady Macbeth’s brother.
Answer: A. The keeper of Macbeth’s castle.

21. Who was the father of William Shakespeare?
A. Gilbert Shakespeare B. John Shakespeare C. Hamnet Shakespeare D. Reginald Shakespeare.
Answer: B. John Shakespeare.

22. Who was the mother of William Shakespeare?
A. Mary Arden B. Susanna C. Judith D. Anne Hathaway.
Answer: A. Mary Arden.

23. How many plays did William Shakespeare write approximately?
A. 20–25 B. 30–32 C. 36–39 D. 40–45.
Answer: C. 36–39.

24. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
A. 100 B. 120 C. 154 D. 160.
Answer: C. 154.

25. Which real historical figure is Macbeth based on?
A. King James B. King Duncan C. King Macbeth of Scotland D. King Edward.
Answer: C. King Macbeth of Scotland.

26. Which book did Shakespeare consult for writing Macbeth?
A. The Bible B. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland C. Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft D. Essay on Daemonologie.
Answer: B. The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.

27. Who wrote the History of Scotland that also influenced Macbeth?
A. Raphael Holinshed B. George Buchanan C. Reginald Scot D. William Stewart.
Answer: B. George Buchanan.

28. When was Macbeth most probably written?
A. 1590–1595 B. 1603–1610 C. 1615–1620 D. 1620–1625.
Answer: B. 1603–1610.

29. In which month and year was Macbeth most likely first performed?
A. August 1606 B. July 1605 C. June 1610 D. May 1600.
Answer: A. August 1606.

30. Where was Macbeth staged in 1611?
A. Hampton Court B. Globe Theatre C. Blackfriars Theatre D. The Rose Theatre.
Answer: B. Globe Theatre.

31. Which character flies to England after King Duncan's assassination?
A. Donalbain B. Malcolm C. Macduff D. Ross.
Answer: B. Malcolm.

32. Who flies to Ireland after Duncan is murdered?
A. Banquo B. Donalbain C. Macduff D. Fleance.
Answer: B. Donalbain.

33. What is the primary theme of Macbeth?
A. Friendship B. Good vs Evil C. Love D. Justice.
Answer: B. Good vs Evil.

34. Which character is Macbeth’s assistant?
A. Seyton B. Ross C. Lennox D. Young Siward.
Answer: A. Seyton.

35. What kind of verse is used predominantly in Macbeth?
A. Rhymed Couplets B. Blank Verse (Iambic Pentameter) C. Free Verse D. Sonnet.
Answer: B. Blank Verse (Iambic Pentameter).

36. Which of the following is NOT a Thane mentioned in Macbeth?
A. Caithness B. Angus C. Menteith D. Lennox.
Answer: D. Lennox.

37. Who is the Scottish general loyal to Duncan and suspects Macbeth?
A. Banquo B. Macduff C. Ross D. Malcolm.
Answer: B. Macduff.

38. Which character is the son of Macduff?
A. Fleance B. Malcolm C. Boy D. Young Siward.
Answer: C. Boy.

39. Who is the Earl of Northumberland and ally of Malcolm?
A. Old Siward B. Young Siward C. Ross D. Banquo.
Answer: A. Old Siward.

40. What is the significance of Birnam Wood in the play?
A. Macbeth’s castle location B. Forest near Dunsinane Hill C. Duncan’s castle location D. Banquo’s home.
Answer: B. Forest near Dunsinane Hill.

41. How many acts are there in Macbeth?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6.
Answer: C. 5.

42. How many scenes are there in Act I of Macbeth?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8.
Answer: C. 7.

43. In which scene does Lady Macbeth sleepwalk?
A. Act V, Scene I B. Act IV, Scene III C. Act III, Scene V D. Act II, Scene II.
Answer: A. Act V, Scene I.

44. What is the setting of the first scene in Macbeth?
A. Macbeth’s castle B. A deserted place in Scotland C. Forres, Duncan’s palace D. A camp near Forres.
Answer: B. A deserted place in Scotland.

45. Where does the Dagger Scene occur?
A. Court of Macbeth’s castle B. A heath near Forres C. Forres, Duncan’s palace D. Macbeth’s castle kitchen.
Answer: A. Court of Macbeth’s castle.

46. Which character is the queen of the witches?
A. Lady Macbeth B. Hecate C. Lady Macduff D. The Third Witch.
Answer: B. Hecate.

47. What is the role of the Porter in the play?
A. Macbeth’s servant B. The gatekeeper of Macbeth’s castle C. A nobleman D. A general.
Answer: B. The gatekeeper of Macbeth’s castle.

48. Who kills Banquo?
A. Macbeth’s hired murderers B. Macduff C. Malcolm D. Seyton.
Answer: A. Macbeth’s hired murderers.

49. What supernatural element is introduced in the first scene?
A. Ghosts B. The Three Witches C. Fairies D. A talking animal.
Answer: B. The Three Witches.

50. Where is Macbeth’s castle located?
A. Inverness B. Forres C. Fife D. Dunsinane.
Answer: A. Inverness.

51. What is the setting for King Duncan’s funeral?
A. Inside Macbeth’s castle B. Outside Macbeth’s castle C. Forres palace D. Birnam Wood.
Answer: B. Outside Macbeth’s castle.

52. Who is Banquo’s son?
A. Malcolm B. Fleance C. Donalbain D. Boy.
Answer: B. Fleance.

53. Who suggests Macbeth to kill Duncan in the play?
A. Lady Macbeth B. Banquo C. Macduff D. Seyton.
Answer: A. Lady Macbeth.

54. Which character is a cousin of Macduff and acts as a messenger?
A. Ross B. Lennox C. Angus D. Menteith.
Answer: A. Ross.

55. What is the relationship between Malcolm and Donalbain?
A. Brothers B. Cousins C. Father and son D. Enemies.
Answer: A. Brothers.

56. Who is Macbeth’s brother?
A. Banquo B. Macduff C. Gilbert D. Seyton.
Answer: C. Gilbert.

57. When was Macbeth published?
A. 1606 B. 1611 C. 1623 D. 1630.
Answer: C. 1623.

58. Who was Macbeth’s wife?
A. Lady Macduff B. Lady Macbeth C. Hecate D. Susanna.
Answer: B. Lady Macbeth.

59. Who were the two sons of Shakespeare?
A. Hamnet and Gilbert B. Hamnet and John C. Hamnet only D. Only daughters.
Answer: C. Hamnet only.

60. What is the supernatural portion of Macbeth mainly based on?
A. Essay on Daemonologie and Discoverie of Witchcraft B. The Bible C. History of Scotland D. Shakespeare’s imagination.
Answer: A. Essay on Daemonologie and Discoverie of Witchcraft.

◼️ 61. What is the setting described at the beginning of Scene I?

(a) A battlefield. (b) A heath. (c) An open place. (d) A thunderstorm.
✅ Answer: (c) An open place
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ACT I, SCENE I. An open Place.”

◼️ 62. Which natural elements accompany the witches’ first appearance?
(a) Snow and wind. (b) Hail and frost. (c) Thunder and lightning. (d) Fire and rain.
✅ Answer: (c) Thunder and lightning
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches.”

◼️ 63. What is the suggested time of the next witch meeting?
(a) After the battle ends. (b) At midnight. (c) Before the storm starts. (d) During the sunrise.
✅ Answer: (a) After the battle ends
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When the hurlyburly’s done, / When the battle’s lost and won.”

◼️ 64. Where do the witches plan to meet Macbeth?
(a) In a cave. (b) Upon the heath. (c) At Forres. (d) By the castle.
✅ Answer: (b) Upon the heath
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath.”

◼️ 65. What phrase do the witches chant in unison at the end of Scene I?
(a) "Foul is fair and fair is foul."
(b) "Hail, Macbeth!"
(c) "Hover in the filthy air."
(d) "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
✅ Answer: (d) Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ALL. Fair is foul, and foul is fair...”

◼️ 66. Who is the first character to speak in Scene II?
(a) Malcolm. (b) Donalbain. (c) Duncan. (d) Lennox.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “DUNCAN. What bloody man is that?”

◼️ 67. Who identifies the wounded soldier in Scene II?
(a) Duncan. (b) Lennox. (c) Malcolm. (d) Donalbain.
✅ Answer: (c) Malcolm
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MALCOLM. This is the sergeant...”

◼️ 68. What metaphor does the soldier use to describe the uncertainty of battle?
(a) Dueling lions. (b) Two raging storms. (c) Spent swimmers. (d) Blind archers.
✅ Answer: (c) Spent swimmers
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Doubtful it stood; / As two spent swimmers...”

◼️ 69. Who is described as being supported by kerns and gallowglasses?
(a) Macbeth. (b) The Norweyan lord. (c) Macdonwald. (d) Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Macdonwald
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...Macdonwald... / From the Western Isles / Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied.”

◼️ 70. How does Fortune relate to Macdonwald, according to the soldier?
(a) She betrays him. (b) She smiles on him. (c) She blinds him. (d) She ignores him.
✅ Answer: (b) She smiles on him
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling...”

◼️ 71. What weapon does Macbeth use in battle?
(a) Spear. (b) Dagger. (c) Steel sword. (d) Axe.
✅ Answer: (c) Steel sword
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With his brandished steel...”

◼️ 72. How is Macbeth’s sword described after use?
(a) Glowing. (b) Bloodied. (c) Rusted. (d) Silver-edged.
✅ Answer: (b) Bloodied
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Which smoked with bloody execution.”

◼️ 73. What simile describes Macbeth’s style of fighting?
(a) Like a lion. (b) Like a thunderbolt. (c) Like Valour’s minion. (d) Like Fortune’s son.
✅ Answer: (c) Like Valour’s minion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Like Valour’s minion, carved out his passage...”

◼️ 74. How does Macbeth kill Macdonwald?
(a) Hangs him. (b) Poisons him. (c) Beheads him after slicing from navel to jaw. (d) Strikes him from behind.
✅ Answer: (c) Beheads him after slicing from navel to jaw
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops...”

◼️ 75. Where does Macbeth place Macdonwald’s head?
(a) At the gate. (b) On the throne. (c) On the battlements. (d) At Duncan’s feet.
✅ Answer: (c) On the battlements
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And fixed his head upon our battlements.”

◼️ 76. How does Duncan describe Macbeth upon hearing this account?
(a) Worthy traitor. (b) Noble hero. (c) Valiant cousin. (d) Fearless knight.
✅ Answer: (c) Valiant cousin
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!”

◼️ 77. What natural image does the captain use to describe the onset of trouble?
(a) Sunset and darkness. (b) Rain and whirlwind. (c) Shipwrecking storms. (d) Fire and ash.
✅ Answer: (c) Shipwrecking storms
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break...”

◼️ 78. What phrase implies unexpected trouble arising from a hopeful situation?
(a) “Comfort swells.” (b) “From that spring...” (c) “Discomfort swells.” (d) “Mark, King of Scotland...”
✅ Answer: (c) “Discomfort swells.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...whence comfort seem’d to come / Discomfort swells.”

◼️ 79. What do the “skipping kerns” do when met with justice and valor?
(a) Flee the battle. (b) Surrender. (c) Fight fiercely. (d) Hide in the hills.
✅ Answer: (a) Flee the battle
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels.”

◼️ 80. What does the Norweyan lord do next, according to the soldier?
(a) Retreats to his ships. (b) Sends emissaries. (c) Begins a fresh assault. (d) Surrenders.
✅ Answer: (c) Begins a fresh assault
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the Norweyan lord... / Began a fresh assault.”

◼️ 81. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is an example of:

(a) Irony. (b) Metaphor. (c) Paradox. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Paradox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase presents a contradiction highlighting the play’s themes.

◼️ 82. “Like Valour’s minion” personifies which abstract concept?
(a) Courage. (b) Fate. (c) Death. (d) Loyalty.
✅ Answer: (a) Courage
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth is described as the “minion” (servant/favorite) of Valour (personified).

◼️ 83. “Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling” is an example of:
(a) Apostrophe. (b) Simile. (c) Personification. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (c) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Fortune is described as smiling, a human action.

◼️ 84. The comparison to “two spent swimmers” is a:
(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Uses “as” to compare battle to two exhausted swimmers.

◼️ 85. “Which smoked with bloody execution” uses which literary device?
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Metaphor. (c) Alliteration. (d) Onomatopoeia.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The sword is metaphorically said to “smoke” from violent action.

◼️ 86. What deeper idea is reflected in “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”?

(a) Love and hate are eternal. (b) Appearances can deceive. (c) Time reveals all truths. (d) Blood brings redemption.
✅ Answer: (b) Appearances can deceive
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The line introduces the central theme of deception.

◼️ 87. What is the implied nature of Macdonwald’s character through “multiplying villainies”?
(a) Treacherous and dishonorable. (b) Clever and wise. (c) Misunderstood. (d) Brave in battle.
✅ Answer: (a) Treacherous and dishonorable
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him...”

◼️ 88. What is implied by Duncan calling Macbeth “valiant cousin”?
(a) He is related to Macbeth. (b) He is impressed by his nobility. (c) He doubts Macbeth. (d) He wants to flatter him.
✅ Answer: (a) He is related to Macbeth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!”

◼️ 89. What is meant by “he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops”?
(a) He cut off his head. (b) He sliced him in half from navel to jaw. (c) He hugged him. (d) He stripped his armor.
✅ Answer: (b) He sliced him in half from navel to jaw
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops...”

◼️ 90. What does “compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels” imply about Macbeth’s impact?
(a) He inspires them. (b) He forces them to flee. (c) He dances with them. (d) He hides from them.
✅ Answer: (b) He forces them to flee
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...compell’d these skipping kerns to trust their heels...”

◼️ 91. How does the Captain describe Macbeth and Banquo’s reaction to the enemy?

(a) Like frightened deer. (b) Like patient monks. (c) Like lions facing hares. (d) Like wounded men.
✅ Answer: (c) Like lions facing hares
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.”

◼️ 92. What metaphor does the soldier use to describe Macbeth and Banquo's attack?
(a) “Like a thunderstorm.” (b) “As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks.” (c) “As swords unsheathed in rage.” (d) “Like arrows in the sky.”
✅ Answer: (b) As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They were / As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks.”

◼️ 93. What do Macbeth and Banquo seem to aim for, according to the Captain?
(a) Eternal peace. (b) Glory and money. (c) Bathing in wounds or a second Golgotha. (d) Power and politics.
✅ Answer: (c) Bathing in wounds or a second Golgotha
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, / Or memorize another Golgotha...”

◼️ 94. What causes the Captain to stop speaking?
(a) He is arrested. (b) He is faint and wounded. (c) Duncan interrupts him. (d) Macbeth arrives.
✅ Answer: (b) He is faint and wounded
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.”

◼️ 95. How does Duncan praise the Captain’s speech and wounds?
(a) They reflect peace. (b) They show bravery. (c) They smell of danger. (d) They reek of treason.
✅ Answer: (b) They show bravery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “So well thy words become thee as thy wounds: / They smack of honour both.”

◼️ 96. What order does Duncan give after the Captain collapses?
(a) Take him to prison. (b) Give him a reward. (c) Send him to the King of Norway. (d) Get him surgeons.
✅ Answer: (d) Get him surgeons
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Go, get him surgeons.”

◼️ 97. Who enters after the Captain exits?
(a) Macbeth and Banquo. (b) Ross and Angus. (c) Donalbain and Malcolm. (d) Cawdor and Sweno.
✅ Answer: (b) Ross and Angus
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Enter Ross and Angus.”

◼️ 98. How does Lennox interpret Ross’s urgency?
(a) He fears trouble. (b) He expects joyful news. (c) He believes Ross brings strange news. (d) He doubts Ross.
✅ Answer: (c) He believes Ross brings strange news
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That seems to speak things strange.”

◼️ 99. What is Ross’s first line upon entering?
(a) “Long live Macbeth.” (b) “God save the King!” (c) “Norway is defeated!” (d) “Great King, I come with news.”
✅ Answer: (b) God save the King!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ROSS. God save the King!”

◼️ 100. Where did Ross come from, according to his report?
(a) Inverness. (b) Colme’s Inch. (c) Fife. (d) Cawdor.
✅ Answer: (c) Fife
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ROSS. From Fife, great King...”

◼️ 101. What poetic image does Ross use to describe Norweyan banners?
(a) “Shaming the hills.” (b) “Flouting the sky.” (c) “Hiding the stars.” (d) “Swallowing the sun.”
✅ Answer: (b) Flouting the sky
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky...”

◼️ 102. Who aided the Norweyan forces in battle?
(a) Sweno. (b) The Thane of Cawdor. (c) The Thane of Glamis. (d) The Captain.
✅ Answer: (b) The Thane of Cawdor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Assisted by that most disloyal traitor, / The Thane of Cawdor...”

◼️ 103. How does Ross describe Macbeth’s armor?
(a) Bloodied and dented. (b) Glorious and royal. (c) Lapp’d in proof. (d) Ancient and torn.
✅ Answer: (c) Lapp’d in proof
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof...”

◼️ 104. What figure is used to represent Macbeth in Ross’s speech?
(a) A knight of Jupiter. (b) Bellona’s bridegroom. (c) God’s champion. (d) The eagle of Scotland.
✅ Answer: (b) Bellona’s bridegroom
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Till that Bellona’s bridegroom...”

◼️ 105. What is the outcome of the battle according to Ross?
(a) A draw. (b) Macbeth was defeated. (c) Victory for Scotland. (d) Norway retreats.
✅ Answer: (c) Victory for Scotland
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And, to conclude, / The victory fell on us.”

◼️ 106. What does Sweno, Norway’s king, request after defeat?
(a) A chance to surrender. (b) Peace terms. (c) Burial of his men. (d) The throne of Cawdor.
✅ Answer: (c) Burial of his men
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sweno, the Norways’ king, craves composition; / Nor would we deign him burial of his men...”

◼️ 107. What ransom does Sweno pay for burial rights?
(a) Ten thousand florins. (b) Ten thousand dollars. (c) Five thousand pounds. (d) A royal hostage.
✅ Answer: (b) Ten thousand dollars
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Till he disbursed at Saint Colme’s Inch / Ten thousand dollars...”

◼️ 108. What sentence does Duncan pass on the Thane of Cawdor?
(a) Imprisonment. (b) Exile. (c) Immediate death. (d) Public shame.
✅ Answer: (c) Immediate death
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Go pronounce his present death...”

◼️ 109. What title is to be given to Macbeth as a reward?
(a) Thane of Fife. (b) Thane of Glamis. (c) Thane of Cawdor. (d) Earl of Scotland.
✅ Answer: (c) Thane of Cawdor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And with his former title greet Macbeth.”

◼️ 110. What closing line sums up the reward and punishment?
(a) “The traitor falls, the hero rises.” (b) “Death for Cawdor, title for Macbeth.” (c) “Macbeth earns what Cawdor lost.” (d) “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”
✅ Answer: (d) What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

◼️ 111. “As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion” is an example of:

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Irony. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It compares Macbeth and Banquo’s fear to sparrows facing eagles.

◼️ 112. “As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks” symbolically refers to:
(a) Weak defense. (b) Explosive energy and courage. (c) War fatigue. (d) False bravery.
✅ Answer: (b) Explosive energy and courage
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The metaphor implies intense power in battle.

◼️ 113. “Memorize another Golgotha” refers to:
(a) Political rebellion. (b) A sacred place of wisdom. (c) A battlefield filled with death like Christ’s crucifixion site. (d) Royal betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) A battlefield filled with death like Christ’s crucifixion site
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Golgotha is the place where Christ was crucified — used here as a symbol of slaughter.

◼️ 114. “Norweyan banners flout the sky” uses which device?
(a) Metaphor. (b) Personification. (c) Irony. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The banners are described as mocking the sky — human action.

◼️ 115. “Bellona’s bridegroom” is an allusion to:
(a) The goddess of war. (b) The Queen of Scotland. (c) Macbeth’s mother. (d) A Roman senator.
✅ Answer: (a) The goddess of war
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Bellona is the Roman goddess of war; Macbeth is called her bridegroom.

◼️ 116. What is the deeper meaning of “They smack of honour both”?

(a) The man smells of blood. (b) His wounds and words both prove his bravery. (c) He talks too much. (d) Honour is useless in war.
✅ Answer: (b) His wounds and words both prove his bravery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Duncan praises both the speech and wounds of the Captain.

◼️ 117. What is implied by “reeking wounds”?
(a) Old scars. (b) Fresh bleeding injuries. (c) Symbolic suffering. (d) Mental trauma.
✅ Answer: (b) Fresh bleeding injuries
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds...”

◼️ 118. Why is the phrase “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” significant?
(a) It foreshadows Macbeth’s betrayal. (b) It marks a just reward. (c) It shows Duncan’s partiality. (d) It ends the war.
✅ Answer: (a) It foreshadows Macbeth’s betrayal
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The irony is that Macbeth too will betray Duncan.

◼️ 119. What is the implication of “Nor would we deign him burial of his men”?
(a) Scotland respects Norway. (b) Denying burial shows disrespect and dominance. (c) Macbeth is cruel. (d) The war is sacred.
✅ Answer: (b) Denying burial shows disrespect and dominance
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refusing burial is an act of political and moral punishment.

◼️ 120. What does “lapp’d in proof” suggest about Macbeth?
(a) He is invulnerable in armour. (b) He is surrounded by danger. (c) He is confused. (d) He is tricked.
✅ Answer: (a) He is invulnerable in armour
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Lapp’d in proof” means encased in tested armour — a symbol of strength.

◼️ 121. What is the Second Witch's response when asked where she has been?

(a) Riding storms. (b) Killing swine. (c) Brewing potions. (d) Summoning spirits.
✅ Answer: (b) Killing swine
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SECOND WITCH. Killing swine.”

◼️ 122. What does the First Witch ask the sailor’s wife for?
(a) Wine. (b) Chestnuts. (c) Water. (d) Apples.
✅ Answer: (b) Chestnuts
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap, / And mounch’d... ‘Give me,’ quoth I.”

◼️ 123. What is the sailor’s wife's response to the witch?
(a) “Here you go.” (b) “Leave me, hag!” (c) “Aroint thee, witch!” (d) “Go find your own.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Aroint thee, witch!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Aroint thee, witch!’ the rump-fed ronyon cries.”

◼️ 124. Where has the sailor gone, according to the witch?
(a) England. (b) Aleppo. (c) Norway. (d) Venice.
✅ Answer: (b) Aleppo
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Her husband’s to Aleppo gone...”

◼️ 125. What vessel is mentioned by the witch for traveling to Aleppo?
(a) In a broom. (b) A ghost ship. (c) In a sieve. (d) A dragon cloud.
✅ Answer: (c) In a sieve
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But in a sieve I’ll thither sail...”

◼️ 126. What gift do the Second and Third Witches offer to the First Witch?
(a) Water. (b) A spellbook. (c) Winds. (d) Fire.
✅ Answer: (c) Winds
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SECOND WITCH. I’ll give thee a wind. / THIRD WITCH. And I another.”

◼️ 127. What will the First Witch do to the sailor?
(a) Kill him. (b) Blind him. (c) Drain him dry as hay. (d) Turn him into a rat.
✅ Answer: (c) Drain him dry as hay
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I will drain him dry as hay...”

◼️ 128. What fate awaits the sailor, according to the First Witch?
(a) He will die quickly. (b) He will never sleep. (c) He will gain fortune. (d) He will fly away.
✅ Answer: (b) He will never sleep
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his pent-house lid...”

◼️ 129. How long will the witch torment the sailor?
(a) Until the moon rises. (b) Seven nights only. (c) Nine times nine nights. (d) Thirteen fortnights.
✅ Answer: (c) Nine times nine nights
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Weary sev’n-nights nine times nine...”

◼️ 130. What is the ultimate condition of the sailor after the witch’s spell?
(a) Stronger. (b) Lost at sea. (c) Dwindle, peak, and pine. (d) Banished to Hell.
✅ Answer: (c) Dwindle, peak, and pine
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine...”

◼️ 131. What object does the First Witch show the others?
(a) A tooth. (b) A ship’s sail. (c) A pilot’s thumb. (d) A human eye.
✅ Answer: (c) A pilot’s thumb
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here I have a pilot’s thumb...”

◼️ 132. What event signals Macbeth’s entrance?
(a) A bell. (b) A howl. (c) A drum. (d) A storm.
✅ Answer: (c) A drum
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A drum, a drum! / Macbeth doth come.”

◼️ 133. What is the Witches’ chant as they link hands?
(a) “Round we go in endless charm.” (b) “Hand in hand, eye to eye.” (c) “The Weird Sisters, hand in hand.” (d) “Spin the spell, turn the tide.”
✅ Answer: (c) The Weird Sisters, hand in hand
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ALL. The Weird Sisters, hand in hand...”

◼️ 134. What rhythm do the witches chant as part of the charm?
(a) Twice to thine, once to mine. (b) Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine. (c) Seven to thine, none to mine. (d) Ten-fold rhyme.
✅ Answer: (b) Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine...”

◼️ 135. What does Macbeth say about the day as he enters?
(a) “Fair day and foul sky.” (b) “Stormy days bring peace.” (c) “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” (d) “The sky speaks in thunder.”
✅ Answer: (c) So foul and fair a day I have not seen
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

◼️ 136. How does Banquo describe the witches’ appearance?
(a) As ghostly kings. (b) Wither’d and wild. (c) Glowing and golden. (d) Like death.
✅ Answer: (b) Wither’d and wild
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “So wither’d, and so wild in their attire...”

◼️ 137. What physical trait of the witches confuses Banquo about their gender?
(a) Their eyes. (b) Their robes. (c) Their beards. (d) Their voices.
✅ Answer: (c) Their beards
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so.”

◼️ 138. What is the first title the witches greet Macbeth with?
(a) King of Scotland. (b) Thane of Cawdor. (c) Thane of Glamis. (d) Lord of Inverness.
✅ Answer: (c) Thane of Glamis
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “FIRST WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!”

◼️ 139. What is the third title given to Macbeth by the witches?
(a) Duke of Ross. (b) King hereafter. (c) Thane of Scotland. (d) Prince of Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (b) King hereafter
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!”

◼️ 140. What is Banquo’s reaction to the witches’ greeting of Macbeth?
(a) He laughs. (b) He faints. (c) He asks why Macbeth starts and fears. (d) He leaves the stage.
✅ Answer: (c) He asks why Macbeth starts and fears
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “BANQUO. Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear...”

◼️ 141. “In a sieve I’ll thither sail” is an example of:

(a) Symbolism. (b) Irony. (c) Fantasy logic. (d) Literal imagery.
✅ Answer: (a) Symbolism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A sieve cannot float—this symbolizes witchcraft defying nature.

◼️ 142. “I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do” implies:
(a) Physical labor. (b) Repetition of evil. (c) Joy in magic. (d) Prophetic vision.
✅ Answer: (b) Repetition of evil
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It echoes incantation and relentless action.

◼️ 143. “Sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent-house lid” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor. (b) Personification. (c) Oxymoron. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sleep is given human qualities—hanging on the eyelid.

◼️ 144. “Dwindle, peak, and pine” uses which literary device?
(a) Alliteration. (b) Pun. (c) Simile. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Alliteration
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The repeated 'p' sounds emphasize wasting away.

◼️ 145. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” is an example of:
(a) Dramatic irony. (b) Paradox. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Satire.
✅ Answer: (b) Paradox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Contradiction in terms—both foul and fair.

◼️ 146. What does “rump-fed ronyon” suggest about the sailor’s wife?

(a) She’s a noblewoman. (b) She’s overweight and rude. (c) She’s generous. (d) She’s a witch herself.
✅ Answer: (b) She’s overweight and rude
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Rump-fed” = fattened; “ronyon” = scabby woman.

◼️ 147. What does “He shall live a man forbid” mean?
(a) He will be banished from society. (b) He will be under a curse. (c) He will be rich. (d) He will be confused.
✅ Answer: (b) He will be under a curse
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Man forbid” means cursed or outcast.

◼️ 148. What does Banquo mean by “seeds of time”?
(a) A magical garden. (b) Possible futures. (c) Secret spells. (d) Lost memories.
✅ Answer: (b) Possible futures
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you can look into the seeds of time...”

◼️ 149. What is the inner significance of the witches’ prophecy to Macbeth?
(a) It is a trap of destiny. (b) It honors his past. (c) It praises the king. (d) It tells him to be cautious.
✅ Answer: (a) It is a trap of destiny
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The prophecy tempts Macbeth, initiating his tragic ambition.

◼️ 150. What does Banquo mean by “fantastical”?
(a) Magical beings. (b) Evil witches. (c) Imaginary or unreal. (d) Glorious creatures.
✅ Answer: (c) Imaginary or unreal
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Are ye fantastical, or that indeed / Which outwardly ye show?”

◼️ 151. What is the paradoxical greeting the First Witch gives to Banquo?

(a) “Greater than Macbeth, and stronger.” (b) “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.” (c) “Thou art Macbeth’s equal.” (d) “Hail, Macbeth’s shadow.”
✅ Answer: (b) Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “FIRST WITCH. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.”

◼️ 152. What contrast does the Second Witch make about Banquo’s happiness?
(a) “Not so happy, but equally so.” (b) “Unhappy now, happy forever.” (c) “Not so happy, yet much happier.” (d) “As happy as Macbeth.”
✅ Answer: (c) Not so happy, yet much happier
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SECOND WITCH. Not so happy, yet much happier.”

◼️ 153. What prophecy does the Third Witch make about Banquo's descendants?
(a) “They shall rule forever.” (b) “They shall die unknown.” (c) “They shall fall in battle.” (d) “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
✅ Answer: (d) Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “THIRD WITCH. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

◼️ 154. What is Macbeth’s immediate reaction to the witches’ vanishing?
(a) He laughs. (b) He is frightened. (c) He charges them to speak more. (d) He walks away.
✅ Answer: (c) He charges them to speak more
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. Speak, I charge you.”

◼️ 155. What fact does Macbeth confirm he already knows?
(a) That Duncan is dead. (b) That he is Thane of Glamis. (c) That Banquo’s children are kings. (d) That he will die in battle.
✅ Answer: (b) That he is Thane of Glamis
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis...”

◼️ 156. Why does Macbeth doubt the title of Thane of Cawdor?
(a) The title has been abolished. (b) The current thane is his friend. (c) The Thane of Cawdor still lives. (d) He fears treason.
✅ Answer: (c) The Thane of Cawdor still lives
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The Thane of Cawdor lives, / A prosperous gentleman.”

◼️ 157. How does Macbeth describe the witches’ information?
(a) Glorious knowledge. (b) Mysterious fortune. (c) Strange intelligence. (d) Vengeful prophecy.
✅ Answer: (c) Strange intelligence
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Say from whence / You owe this strange intelligence?”

◼️ 158. What natural feature does Macbeth refer to in questioning why they stopped him?
(a) A cursed plain. (b) A twisted road. (c) The blasted heath. (d) The dark woods.
✅ Answer: (c) The blasted heath
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Upon this blasted heath you stop our way...”

◼️ 159. How do the witches exit the scene?
(a) Through the fog. (b) Into the air. (c) Through the ground. (d) Behind the trees.
✅ Answer: (b) Into the air
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. Into the air; and what seem’d corporal, / Melted as breath into the wind.”

◼️ 160. What simile does Banquo use to describe the witches’ disappearance?
(a) “Like ghosts fleeing the sun.” (b) “Like sparks in the storm.” (c) “The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.” (d) “Like leaves on the wind.”
✅ Answer: (c) The earth hath bubbles, as the water has
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “BANQUO. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has...”

◼️ 161. What hallucinogenic metaphor does Banquo mention?
(a) “We drank the sleep of fate.” (b) “Have we eaten on the insane root...” (c) “Do we dream our destiny?” (d) “Has madness cast a spell?”
✅ Answer: (b) Have we eaten on the insane root...
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Or have we eaten on the insane root / That takes the reason prisoner?”

◼️ 162. What does Macbeth immediately remind Banquo about the prophecy?
(a) That he shall be Thane of Cawdor. (b) That Banquo shall die soon. (c) That they both were fools to listen. (d) That Banquo’s children shall die.
✅ Answer: (a) That he shall be Thane of Cawdor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. And Thane of Cawdor too; went it not so?”

◼️ 163. What does Ross say the king has heard of?
(a) Macbeth’s dark thoughts. (b) Macbeth’s personal bravery. (c) The witches’ vision. (d) The defeat of the rebels.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth’s personal bravery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ROSS. The news of thy success... / Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight...”

◼️ 164. According to Ross, what competed in the king’s mind?
(a) Hate and fear. (b) Joy and suspicion. (c) Wonders and praises. (d) Anger and gratitude.
✅ Answer: (c) Wonders and praises
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His wonders and his praises do contend / Which should be thine or his.”

◼️ 165. What kind of images did Macbeth create in the battle?
(a) Pictures of peace. (b) Strange images of death. (c) Glorious visions. (d) Scenes of heaven.
✅ Answer: (b) Strange images of death
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks, / Nothing afeard... / Strange images of death.”

◼️ 166. What comparison does Ross make to describe how fast praise of Macbeth spread?
(a) Like arrows. (b) Like whispers in wind. (c) As thick as tale. (d) Like stars in the sky.
✅ Answer: (c) As thick as tale
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As thick as tale / Came post with post...”

◼️ 167. What does Angus say is their purpose in meeting Macbeth?
(a) To test him. (b) To deliver punishment. (c) To summon him. (d) To thank him on behalf of the king.
✅ Answer: (d) To thank him on behalf of the king
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ANGUS. We are sent / To give thee from our royal master thanks...”

◼️ 168. What is Ross instructed to call Macbeth?
(a) Earl of Fife. (b) Duke of Inverness. (c) Thane of Cawdor. (d) Prince of Cumberland.
✅ Answer: (c) Thane of Cawdor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ROSS. He bade me... call thee Thane of Cawdor.”

◼️ 169. What term does Ross use to describe Macbeth when bestowing the title?
(a) Worthy. (b) Mighty. (c) Glorious. (d) Fortunate.
✅ Answer: (a) Worthy
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “In which addition, hail, most worthy thane...”

◼️ 170. What word does Ross use to describe the title of Thane of Cawdor?
(a) Accursed. (b) A gift. (c) An addition. (d) A change.
✅ Answer: (c) An addition
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “In which addition, hail...”

◼️ 171. “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater” is an example of:

(a) Oxymoron. (b) Simile. (c) Paradox. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Paradox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It contradicts itself but suggests deeper meaning about Banquo’s legacy.

◼️ 172. “The earth hath bubbles, as the water has” is an example of:
(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Allusion. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The witches are compared to water bubbles using “as.”

◼️ 173. “Melted as breath into the wind” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Alliteration. (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Melted as breath into the wind” compares disappearance to fading breath.

◼️ 174. “Insane root that takes the reason prisoner” is a metaphor for:
(a) Magical flowers. (b) Hallucinatory delusion. (c) Witchcraft. (d) Destiny.
✅ Answer: (b) Hallucinatory delusion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Insane root” refers to a substance that causes madness.

◼️ 175. “Strange images of death” is an example of:
(a) Oxymoron. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Symbolism. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbolism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Strange images of death” symbolize Macbeth’s violent imagination.

◼️ 176. What deeper truth lies in “Not so happy, yet much happier”?

(a) Banquo will never achieve happiness. (b) Banquo’s lineage will prosper despite personal misfortunes. (c) Macbeth will win all honors. (d) Happiness is meaningless.
✅ Answer: (b) Banquo’s lineage will prosper despite personal misfortunes
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The witches hint that Banquo’s descendants will be kings.

◼️ 177. What does Macbeth mean by “Speak, I charge you”?
(a) He politely requests the witches to stay. (b) He gives a command, desperate for answers. (c) He charges Banquo with witchcraft. (d) He accuses Ross of lying.
✅ Answer: (b) He gives a command, desperate for answers
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His urgency shows growing ambition.

◼️ 178. What does Banquo question when he says “Were such things here”?
(a) If they imagined the witches. (b) If Macbeth betrayed him. (c) If death is near. (d) If war has ended.
✅ Answer: (a) If they imagined the witches
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Were such things here as we do speak about?”

◼️ 179. What does “As thick as tale” suggest about the reports of Macbeth?
(a) They were confusing. (b) They were constant and numerous. (c) They were false. (d) They were ignored.
✅ Answer: (b) They were constant and numerous
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As thick as tale / Came post with post...”

◼️ 180. What does the phrase “earnest of a greater honour” suggest?
(a) A temporary reward. (b) A warning. (c) A gesture of upcoming favor. (d) A token of betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) A gesture of upcoming favor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And, for an earnest of a greater honour...”

◼️ 181. What is Banquo’s reaction to Macbeth being named Thane of Cawdor?

(a) He is surprised but hopeful. (b) He doubts the prophecy. (c) He suspects foul play. (d) He immediately congratulates Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (a) He is surprised but hopeful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, can the devil speak true?”

◼️ 182. What does Macbeth mean by “borrow’d robes”?
(a) Inherited clothing. (b) Disguise for war. (c) An unearned title. (d) Royal robes.
✅ Answer: (c) An unearned title.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”

◼️ 183. What charge is laid upon the previous Thane of Cawdor?
(a) Theft. (b) Treason. (c) Murder. (d) Cowardice.
✅ Answer: (b) Treason.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d, Have overthrown him.”

◼️ 184. What does Macbeth mean by “The greatest is behind”?
(a) The greatest battle is over. (b) His best days are gone. (c) The highest title is yet to come. (d) He regrets the past.
✅ Answer: (c) The highest title is yet to come.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: The greatest is behind.”

◼️ 185. What concern does Banquo raise about trusting the witches?
(a) They lie often. (b) They are servants of the devil. (c) They mislead through truth. (d) They have no power.
✅ Answer: (c) They mislead through truth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The instruments of darkness tell us truths… to betray’s in deepest consequence.”

◼️ 186. What does Macbeth mean by “happy prologues to the swelling act”?
(a) His life will improve. (b) His beginning successes are leading to greatness. (c) He is dreaming. (d) His past is full of joy.
✅ Answer: (b) His beginning successes are leading to greatness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act.”

◼️ 187. What internal conflict does Macbeth reveal in his soliloquy?
(a) Love versus duty. (b) Trust versus betrayal. (c) Ambition versus morality. (d) Hope versus despair.
✅ Answer: (c) Ambition versus morality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair…”

◼️ 188. What phrase reveals Macbeth’s fear about his murderous thoughts?
(a) “Function is smother’d in surmise.” (b) “Chance may crown me.” (c) “Let us speak our free hearts.” (d) “Time and the hour runs.”
✅ Answer: (a) “Function is smother’d in surmise.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My thought… Shakes so my single state of man That function is smother’d in surmise.”

◼️ 189. How does Banquo describe Macbeth’s mental state?
(a) Calm and thoughtful. (b) Focused and resolved. (c) Distracted and entranced. (d) Joyful and proud.
✅ Answer: (c) Distracted and entranced.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Look, how our partner’s rapt.”

◼️ 190. What does Macbeth mean by “chance may crown me, Without my stir”?
(a) He hopes to rule without effort. (b) He will avoid conflict. (c) He has no ambition. (d) He trusts Banquo.
✅ Answer: (a) He hopes to rule without effort.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.”

◼️ 191. What metaphor does Banquo use for Macbeth’s new titles?
(a) Crowns. (b) Treasures. (c) Strange garments. (d) Chains.
✅ Answer: (c) Strange garments.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “New honours come upon him, Like our strange garments…”

◼️ 192. What emotion is Macbeth hiding when speaking to Banquo?
(a) Sadness. (b) Indifference. (c) Excitement. (d) Inner turmoil.
✅ Answer: (d) Inner turmoil.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Aside.] Come what come may…”

◼️ 193. What does Macbeth admit about his current thoughts?
(a) They are forgettable. (b) They concern the witches’ disappearance. (c) They are unclear. (d) They relate to things forgotten.
✅ Answer: (d) They relate to things forgotten.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My dull brain was wrought With things forgotten.”

◼️ 194. What does Macbeth suggest he and Banquo do later?
(a) Consult the King. (b) Meet the witches again. (c) Speak freely of the events. (d) Prepare for battle.
✅ Answer: (c) Speak freely of the events.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us speak Our free hearts each to other.”

◼️ 195. What does Macbeth mean by “Come what come may”?
(a) Let destiny unfold. (b) Prepare for resistance. (c) Ignore all consequences. (d) Follow the witches.
✅ Answer: (a) Let destiny unfold.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Aside.] Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

◼️ 196. How does Banquo respond to Macbeth's invitation to speak later?
(a) He declines. (b) He agrees gladly. (c) He hesitates. (d) He questions him.
✅ Answer: (b) He agrees gladly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Very gladly.”

◼️ 197. How does Macbeth regard the services of Ross and Angus?
(a) With suspicion. (b) With dismissal. (c) With gratitude. (d) With confusion.
✅ Answer: (c) With gratitude.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Kind gentlemen, your pains Are register’d…”

◼️ 198. What does Macbeth say about their memory of services?
(a) It fades quickly. (b) It’s deeply noted. (c) It is ignored. (d) It is written in the stars.
✅ Answer: (b) It’s deeply noted.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your pains Are register’d where every day I turn The leaf to read them.”

◼️ 199. What does Macbeth suggest they do at the end of the scene?
(a) Reflect separately. (b) Visit the witches again. (c) Move toward the King. (d) Return home.
✅ Answer: (c) Move toward the King.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us toward the King.”

◼️ 200. What literary device is Macbeth using when he speaks to himself in asides?
(a) Dialogue. (b) Soliloquy. (c) Dramatic irony. (d) Monologue.
✅ Answer: (b) Soliloquy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Aside.] Two truths are told…”

◼️ 201. “Borrow’d robes” is a metaphor for:

(a) Outdated clothes. (b) Royal dress. (c) Another man’s title. (d) Witchcraft.
✅ Answer: (c) Another man’s title.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”

◼️ 202. “Shakes so my single state of man” suggests:
(a) External trembling. (b) A crisis of identity. (c) An earthquake. (d) Loss of speech.
✅ Answer: (b) A crisis of identity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My thought… Shakes so my single state of man…”

◼️ 203. “Time and the hour runs through the roughest day” contains what device?
(a) Alliteration. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

◼️ 204. “Seated heart knock at my ribs” is an example of:
(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Make my seated heart knock at my ribs.”

◼️ 205. The phrase “Instruments of darkness” symbolises:
(a) Political agents. (b) Spirits of the underworld. (c) Evil influences. (d) Honest advisors.
✅ Answer: (c) Evil influences.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The instruments of darkness tell us truths…”

◼️ 206. “Two truths are told…” implies what about Macbeth’s state of mind?

(a) Satisfaction. (b) Growing belief in fate. (c) Disinterest. (d) Detachment.
✅ Answer: (b) Growing belief in fate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Two truths are told, As happy prologues…”

◼️ 207. Banquo’s warning to Macbeth suggests:
(a) Hope for Macbeth. (b) Fear of destiny. (c) Wisdom about deception. (d) Support for the witches.
✅ Answer: (c) Wisdom about deception.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To win us to our harm… betray’s in deepest consequence.”

◼️ 208. Macbeth’s aside “Cannot be ill; cannot be good” reveals:
(a) Logical reasoning. (b) Moral dilemma. (c) Ambition. (d) Clarity of mind.
✅ Answer: (b) Moral dilemma.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good.”

◼️ 209. The phrase “Nothing is but what is not” expresses:
(a) Hallucination. (b) Hope. (c) Reality inversion. (d) Futility.
✅ Answer: (c) Reality inversion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And nothing is but what is not.”

◼️ 210. “Let us speak our free hearts each to other” suggests:
(a) Political strategy. (b) Personal confession. (c) Deception. (d) Friendship and truth.
✅ Answer: (d) Friendship and truth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us speak Our free hearts each to other.”

◼️ 211. What does Malcolm report about the Thane of Cawdor’s execution?
(a) He died begging for mercy. (b) He resisted death fiercely. (c) He confessed frankly and repented deeply. (d) He tried to escape death.
✅ Answer: (c) He confessed frankly and repented deeply.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That very frankly he confess’d his treasons, Implor’d your Highness’ pardon, and set forth a deep repentance.”

◼️ 212. What line expresses Duncan’s reflection on deception through appearances?
(a) There’s no trust in royalty. (b) Appearances can never lie. (c) Face always reveals the mind. (d) There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
✅ Answer: (d) There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

◼️ 213. What emotion does Duncan express toward Macbeth for his services?
(a) Disbelief. (b) Jealousy. (c) Guilt of ingratitude. (d) Envy.
✅ Answer: (c) Guilt of ingratitude.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The sin of my ingratitude even now was heavy on me.”

◼️ 214. What metaphor does Duncan use to describe rewarding Macbeth?
(a) The wings of mercy. (b) The crown of honour. (c) The swiftest wing of recompense. (d) The sword of justice.
✅ Answer: (c) The swiftest wing of recompense.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That swiftest wing of recompense is slow to overtake thee.”

◼️ 215. How does Macbeth humbly respond to Duncan’s praise?
(a) By demanding more honours. (b) By claiming loyalty is his duty. (c) By refusing any reward. (d) By denying any merit.
✅ Answer: (b) By claiming loyalty is his duty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself.”

◼️ 216. What agricultural metaphor does Duncan use for Macbeth?
(a) I will fertilize your loyalty. (b) I have begun to sow you. (c) I have begun to plant thee. (d) You are the seed of hope.
✅ Answer: (c) I have begun to plant thee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have begun to plant thee, and will labour to make thee full of growing.”

◼️ 217. What is Banquo’s response to Duncan’s recognition of him?
(a) He asks for a title. (b) He rejects it. (c) He says the harvest is Duncan’s. (d) He questions his worth.
✅ Answer: (c) He says the harvest is Duncan’s.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There if I grow, the harvest is your own.”

◼️ 218. What title does Duncan confer upon Malcolm?
(a) Earl of Scotland. (b) Prince of Inverness. (c) Prince of Cumberland. (d) Duke of Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (c) Prince of Cumberland.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland.”

◼️ 219. How does Macbeth privately react to Malcolm being named Prince?
(a) With joy. (b) With fear. (c) With disappointment. (d) With ambition.
✅ Answer: (d) With ambition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap.”

◼️ 220. What is Macbeth’s attitude in his aside about his desires?
(a) Hesitant and moral. (b) Dark and ambitious. (c) Angry and revengeful. (d) Calm and indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Dark and ambitious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

◼️ 221. What does Duncan call Macbeth after he leaves to inform Lady Macbeth?
(a) A fearless warrior. (b) My loyal subject. (c) My worthy Cawdor. (d) A perfect thane.
✅ Answer: (c) My worthy Cawdor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My worthy Cawdor!”

◼️ 222. What does Duncan say about Banquo’s merit?
(a) He has done more than Macbeth. (b) He is equally deserving. (c) He is to be rewarded later. (d) He will rule beside Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) He is equally deserving.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Noble Banquo, That hast no less deserv’d.”

◼️ 223. How does Macbeth react to the announcement of Duncan’s journey to Inverness?
(a) He is joyful. (b) He is fearful. (c) He offers to go ahead. (d) He tries to avoid it.
✅ Answer: (c) He offers to go ahead.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful the hearing of my wife with your approach.”

◼️ 224. What emotion does Duncan express about Macbeth’s attitude?
(a) Jealousy. (b) Respect. (c) Delight. (d) Suspicion.
✅ Answer: (c) Delight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “True, worthy Banquo! He is full so valiant.”

◼️ 225. What phrase shows Duncan’s overwhelming joy?
(a) My heart overflows. (b) My grateful soul. (c) My plenteous joys. (d) My noble thanks.
✅ Answer: (c) My plenteous joys.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow.”

◼️ 226. What does Duncan compare his joy to?
(a) A garden. (b) A banquet. (c) A battlefield. (d) A storm.
✅ Answer: (b) A banquet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It is a banquet to me.”

◼️ 227. Which phrase reveals Macbeth’s concealment of ambition?
(a) Black and deep desires. (b) Worthy cousin. (c) Prince of Cumberland. (d) A banquet to me.
✅ Answer: (a) Black and deep desires.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

◼️ 228. What does Macbeth say about time and destiny?
(a) All must wait. (b) Time is the ruler of fate. (c) Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. (d) Let fate decide.
✅ Answer: (c) Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

◼️ 229. How does Macbeth metaphorically describe his heart’s reaction to ambition?
(a) It becomes iron. (b) It melts. (c) It knocks at his ribs. (d) It goes silent.
✅ Answer: (c) It knocks at his ribs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Make my seated heart knock at my ribs.”

◼️ 230. What does Macbeth mean by “The eye wink at the hand”?
(a) He will act with full awareness. (b) He wants to conceal his action even from himself. (c) He trusts his fate. (d) He asks for approval.
✅ Answer: (b) He wants to conceal his action even from himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.”

◼️ 231. “Plant thee... make thee full of growing” is an example of—

(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Irony. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Duncan uses the growth metaphor to express nurturing Macbeth.

◼️ 232. “Stars, hide your fires!” is an example of—
(a) Apostrophe. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Simile. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth addresses stars directly, showing internal turmoil.

◼️ 233. “Let not light see my black and deep desires” contrasts—
(a) Light and shadow. (b) Honour and ambition. (c) Light and dark. (d) Fate and free will.
✅ Answer: (c) Light and dark.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth uses the imagery of light vs. darkness to show concealment.

◼️ 234. “Like stars shall shine on all deservers” implies—
(a) Class division. (b) Nobles will shine in fame. (c) Future success. (d) Night-time ceremony.
✅ Answer: (b) Nobles will shine in fame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deservers.”

◼️ 235. “A banquet to me” is a figure for—
(a) Wealth. (b) Celebration. (c) Overwhelming emotional satisfaction. (d) Power.
✅ Answer: (c) Overwhelming emotional satisfaction.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “In his commendations I am fed. It is a banquet to me.”

◼️ 236. What does Duncan’s line “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” imply?

(a) You can always tell who’s a traitor. (b) Appearance is deceptive. (c) The face shows honesty. (d) Art helps understand minds.
✅ Answer: (b) Appearance is deceptive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Duncan is shocked by Cawdor’s betrayal, despite his trusted look.

◼️ 237. What is ironic in Duncan calling Macbeth “peerless”?
(a) Macbeth is truly honest. (b) Macbeth is secretly plotting. (c) Macbeth will never betray. (d) Macbeth loves his king.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth is secretly plotting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let’s after him... It is a peerless kinsman.”

◼️ 238. Why does Macbeth want “the eye to wink at the hand”?
(a) To let others know his actions. (b) To ensure his guilt is visible. (c) To hide his murderous intentions. (d) To appear brave.
✅ Answer: (c) To hide his murderous intentions.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

◼️ 239. What inner conflict is shown when Macbeth says “Nothing is but what is not”?
(a) Confidence in fate. (b) Doubt and confusion. (c) Determination to act. (d) Peaceful acceptance.
✅ Answer: (b) Doubt and confusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth’s reality is overtaken by hallucinations and ambition.

◼️ 240. What does Banquo mean by “If I grow, the harvest is your own”?
(a) He wants land. (b) He sees Duncan as the source of his success. (c) He mocks Duncan. (d) He will rebel.
✅ Answer: (b) He sees Duncan as the source of his success.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There if I grow, the harvest is your own.”

◼️ 241. What does Lady Macbeth refer to when she says, "what greatness is promis’d thee"?

(a) Macbeth’s title of Thane of Glamis. (b) Macbeth’s future as Thane of Cawdor. (c) Macbeth’s promised kingship. (d) Macbeth’s past victory.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth’s promised kingship.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...and referred me to the coming on of time, with ‘Hail, king that shalt be!’"

◼️ 242. What trait in Macbeth does Lady Macbeth fear might prevent him from seizing the crown?
(a) Ambition. (b) Cowardice. (c) Excessive kindness. (d) Disloyalty.
✅ Answer: (c) Excessive kindness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness..."

◼️ 243. In her soliloquy, Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth “great Glamis” and “worthy Cawdor.” What is her tone here?
(a) Mocking. (b) Jealous. (c) Loving and ambitious. (d) Fearful.
✅ Answer: (c) Loving and ambitious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!"

◼️ 244. What metaphor does Lady Macbeth use to describe Macbeth’s visible intentions on his face?
(a) An open wound. (b) A sealed box. (c) A book. (d) A mirror.
✅ Answer: (c) A book.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters."

◼️ 245. What does Macbeth mean by, “We will speak further”?
(a) He’s fully agreed. (b) He wants to delay the discussion. (c) He is angry. (d) He refuses Lady Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) He wants to delay the discussion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MACBETH. We will speak further."

◼️ 246. According to Lady Macbeth, what must Macbeth appear to be to deceive others?
(a) A silent servant. (b) A holy man. (c) An innocent flower. (d) A wounded king.
✅ Answer: (c) An innocent flower.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t."

◼️ 247. What news does the Messenger deliver to Lady Macbeth?
(a) Macbeth has been wounded. (b) Duncan will visit that night. (c) The witches are back. (d) Macbeth was crowned.
✅ Answer: (b) Duncan will visit that night.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The King comes here tonight."

◼️ 248. What emotion does Lady Macbeth express upon hearing of Duncan’s visit?
(a) Panic. (b) Gratitude. (c) Excitement for murder. (d) Regret.
✅ Answer: (c) Excitement for murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan..."

◼️ 249. What is Lady Macbeth’s ultimate goal expressed in the soliloquy?
(a) Save Macbeth from treason. (b) Crown Macbeth as king. (c) Flee Inverness. (d) Kill Banquo.
✅ Answer: (b) Crown Macbeth as king.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "All that impedes thee from the golden round..."

◼️ 250. How does Lady Macbeth describe her desire to be stripped of femininity?
(a) "Make me queen in strength." (b) "Unsex me here." (c) "Deny my woman’s soul." (d) "Undo my tender frame."
✅ Answer: (b) "Unsex me here."
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come, you spirits... unsex me here..."

◼️ 251. What is meant by “stop up th’ access and passage to remorse”?
(a) Block any feeling of guilt. (b) Close Macbeth’s heart. (c) Prevent compassion for Duncan. (d) Kill her own conscience.
✅ Answer: (a) Block any feeling of guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse..."

◼️ 252. What metaphor does Lady Macbeth use for her willingness to commit cruelty?
(a) "Keen blade and cold steel." (b) "Take my milk for gall." (c) "Steel my veins with poison." (d) "Fire my soul with blood."
✅ Answer: (b) "Take my milk for gall."
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall..."

◼️ 253. What kind of “spirits” does Lady Macbeth invoke?
(a) Spirits of royalty. (b) Spirits of vengeance. (c) Spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. (d) Guardian spirits.
✅ Answer: (c) Spirits that tend on mortal thoughts.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts..."

◼️ 254. What literary device is used in “blanket of the dark”?
(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Alliteration. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...the blanket of the dark to cry ‘Hold, hold!’"

◼️ 255. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “look up clear”?
(a) See the stars for guidance. (b) Maintain innocent appearance. (c) Find courage to flee. (d) Pray for mercy.
✅ Answer: (b) Maintain innocent appearance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Only look up clear; To alter favour ever is to fear."

◼️ 256. “The future in the instant”—what does this line reflect?
(a) Confusion. (b) Joy in the prophecy. (c) Fear of time. (d) Loathing of destiny.
✅ Answer: (b) Joy in the prophecy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...and I feel now the future in the instant."

◼️ 257. How does Lady Macbeth plan to influence Macbeth?
(a) With religious authority. (b) Through fear. (c) By seduction. (d) By pouring her spirits into his ear.
✅ Answer: (d) By pouring her spirits into his ear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...that I may pour my spirits in thine ear..."

◼️ 258. “Ignorant present”—what does this phrase suggest?
(a) Macbeth is ungrateful. (b) The present moment lacks knowledge. (c) The witches are fools. (d) Past glories matter more.
✅ Answer: (b) The present moment lacks knowledge.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "transported me beyond this ignorant present..."

◼️ 259. What does Macbeth mean by “Duncan comes here tonight”?
(a) He is surprised. (b) He fears betrayal. (c) He informs her of opportunity. (d) He wants to cancel the plan.
✅ Answer: (c) He informs her of opportunity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Duncan comes here tonight."

◼️ 260. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “Leave all the rest to me”?
(a) She will manage the feast. (b) She takes charge of Duncan’s murder. (c) She wants Macbeth to flee. (d) She dismisses the prophecy.
✅ Answer: (b) She takes charge of Duncan’s murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Leave all the rest to me."

◼️ 261. “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”—what is this device?

(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Irony. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t."

◼️ 262. What does “the raven” symbolize in Lady Macbeth’s speech?
(a) Power. (b) Freedom. (c) Death. (d) Fertility.
✅ Answer: (c) Death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan..."

◼️ 263. “Milk of human kindness” represents—
(a) Softness and empathy. (b) Weak bloodline. (c) Maternal failure. (d) Lack of honor.
✅ Answer: (a) Softness and empathy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness..."

◼️ 264. What does “blanket of the dark” suggest symbolically?
(a) Coldness. (b) Guilt. (c) Stealth and concealment. (d) Poverty.
✅ Answer: (c) Stealth and concealment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...blanket of the dark to cry ‘Hold, hold!’"

◼️ 265. “Unsex me here”—this phrase shows Lady Macbeth’s desire to—
(a) Act as a ghost. (b) Lose feminine weakness. (c) Reject marriage. (d) Embrace motherhood.
✅ Answer: (b) Lose feminine weakness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "unsex me here, and fill me... of direst cruelty!"

◼️ 266. “Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor”—what does this double praise reflect?

(a) Suspicion. (b) Irony. (c) Excitement for ambition. (d) Warning.
✅ Answer: (c) Excitement for ambition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor!"

◼️ 267. “O, never shall sun that morrow see!”—What is the implied intent?
(a) Duncan will leave at night. (b) Duncan will be welcomed. (c) Duncan will be killed before morning. (d) Macbeth will be king.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan will be killed before morning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "O, never shall sun that morrow see!"

◼️ 268. “Come thick night…” shows Lady Macbeth’s wish for—
(a) Mercy. (b) Disguise and concealment. (c) Joy. (d) Peace.
✅ Answer: (b) Disguise and concealment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell..."

◼️ 269. Lady Macbeth’s reference to “the ignorant present” implies—
(a) The moment is unenlightened. (b) Macbeth is uneducated. (c) Time is too slow. (d) Macbeth fears the truth.
✅ Answer: (a) The moment is unenlightened.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...transported me beyond this ignorant present..."

◼️ 270. “To beguile the time, look like the time”—This means—
(a) Time is powerful. (b) Pretend to fit in. (c) Use time wisely. (d) Fear time.
✅ Answer: (b) Pretend to fit in.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To beguile the time, look like the time..."

◼️ 271. What does Duncan say about the atmosphere of Macbeth’s castle?

(a) It is dark and grim. (b) It is bright and bustling. (c) It is pleasant and sweet. (d) It is haunted and ominous.
✅ Answer: (c) It is pleasant and sweet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself..."

◼️ 272. What does Banquo compare the castle to?
(a) A royal shrine. (b) A dangerous den. (c) A summer paradise. (d) A temple for martlets.
✅ Answer: (d) A temple for martlets.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, / By his loved mansionry..."

◼️ 273. What is the martlet known to do, according to Banquo?
(a) Build in graveyards. (b) Avoid castles. (c) Choose pure and airy places. (d) Migrate during storms.
✅ Answer: (c) Choose pure and airy places.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ’d / The air is delicate."

◼️ 274. Who is referred to as “our honour’d hostess”?
(a) Lady Macbeth. (b) Lady Macduff. (c) Banquo. (d) Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (a) Lady Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "See, see, our honour’d hostess!"

◼️ 275. What does Duncan say about love that causes trouble?
(a) It should be avoided. (b) It must be forgotten. (c) It is still love and should be thanked. (d) It is often deceiving.
✅ Answer: (c) It is still love and should be thanked.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, / Which still we thank as love."

◼️ 276. According to Duncan, what does he teach Lady Macbeth?
(a) How to deceive the guests. (b) How to cook for kings. (c) How to wish blessings. (d) How to rule.
✅ Answer: (c) How to wish blessings.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Herein I teach you / How you shall bid God ’ild us for your pains..."

◼️ 277. What does Lady Macbeth say about their hospitality?
(a) It's done with reluctance. (b) It is exaggerated. (c) It is insufficient despite repetition. (d) It is meant to impress.
✅ Answer: (c) It is insufficient despite repetition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "In every point twice done, and then done double, / Were poor and single business..."

◼️ 278. What phrase does Lady Macbeth use to suggest they are blessed to serve Duncan?
(a) "We rest your hermits." (b) "We are your kin." (c) "We bless your rule." (d) "We serve with pride."
✅ Answer: (a) "We rest your hermits."
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We rest your hermits."

◼️ 279. What does Duncan mean by “cours’d him at the heels”?
(a) He chased after Macbeth. (b) He punished him. (c) He beat him in a race. (d) He rejected his hospitality.
✅ Answer: (a) He chased after Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We cours’d him at the heels..."

◼️ 280. What is meant by Duncan being Macbeth’s “purveyor”?
(a) A rival in war. (b) One bringing food and gifts. (c) One announcing his kingship. (d) A judge.
✅ Answer: (b) One bringing food and gifts.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...had a purpose / To be his purveyor..."

◼️ 281. According to Duncan, what quality helped Macbeth reach home before the king?
(a) His love and determination. (b) His horse. (c) His troops. (d) The weather.
✅ Answer: (a) His love and determination.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him..."

◼️ 282. What does Duncan call Lady Macbeth before entering the castle?
(a) A charming hostess. (b) A noble wife. (c) A fair and noble hostess. (d) A cunning woman.
✅ Answer: (c) A fair and noble hostess.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Fair and noble hostess..."

◼️ 283. How does Lady Macbeth describe the servants' belongings?
(a) They are humble. (b) They are borrowed. (c) They are at Duncan’s command. (d) They belong to the king.
✅ Answer: (c) They are at Duncan’s command.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...and what is theirs, in compt, / To make their audit at your Highness’ pleasure..."

◼️ 284. What phrase does Lady Macbeth use to show everything returns to Duncan?
(a) “We give you all.” (b) “Still to return your own.” (c) “Your will be done.” (d) “Ours is yours.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Still to return your own.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Still to return your own."

◼️ 285. What does Duncan request from Lady Macbeth as he prepares to enter?
(a) A blessing. (b) Her hand. (c) A royal welcome. (d) A feast.
✅ Answer: (b) Her hand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Give me your hand; / Conduct me to mine host..."

◼️ 286. What is Duncan’s view of Macbeth at this point?
(a) He suspects him. (b) He disapproves of him. (c) He highly values him. (d) He pities him.
✅ Answer: (c) He highly values him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We love him highly..."

◼️ 287. What does Duncan say about his future relationship with Macbeth?
(a) He will replace him. (b) He will reward him more. (c) He will imprison him. (d) He will exile him.
✅ Answer: (b) He will reward him more.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...shall continue our graces towards him."

◼️ 288. What is the dramatic irony in this scene?
(a) Lady Macbeth praises Duncan. (b) Duncan trusts Macbeth fully. (c) The castle is beautiful. (d) The martlet nests nearby.
✅ Answer: (b) Duncan trusts Macbeth fully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We love him highly, / And shall continue our graces towards him."

◼️ 289. Who enters the scene immediately after Banquo praises the air?
(a) Macbeth. (b) Duncan. (c) Lady Macbeth. (d) Ross.
✅ Answer: (c) Lady Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Enter Lady Macbeth."

◼️ 290. How is the castle described structurally in relation to the martlet?
(a) It is desolate. (b) It has many convenient spots. (c) It is worn and broken. (d) It is far from nature.
✅ Answer: (b) It has many convenient spots.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "No jutty, frieze, / Buttress, nor coign of vantage..."

◼️ 291. “The temple-haunting martlet” is a symbol of—

(a) Treachery. (b) Sacredness and peace. (c) War. (d) Greed.
✅ Answer: (b) Sacredness and peace.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The temple-haunting martlet..."

◼️ 292. “The air is delicate” is an example of—
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Oxymoron. (c) Sensory imagery. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Sensory imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The air is delicate."

◼️ 293. The phrase “love that follows us sometime is our trouble” is an example of—
(a) Paradox. (b) Simile. (c) Euphemism. (d) Symbolism.
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The love that follows us sometime is our trouble..."

◼️ 294. “Sharp as his spur” is an example of—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Irony. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His great love, sharp as his spur..."

◼️ 295. “We rest your hermits” symbolically suggests—
(a) Loyalty in prayer and sacrifice. (b) Isolation and fear. (c) Monastic retreat. (d) Escape from power.
✅ Answer: (a) Loyalty in prayer and sacrifice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We rest your hermits."

◼️ 296. “All our service...twice done” means—

(a) Their service is meaningless. (b) Their service cannot match Duncan’s honor. (c) Their work is boring. (d) They will not serve again.
✅ Answer: (b) Their service cannot match Duncan’s honor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "In every point twice done, and then done double / Were poor and single business..."

◼️ 297. “Still to return your own” implies—
(a) The king owns everything. (b) The hosts are greedy. (c) Everything offered is Duncan’s already. (d) Lady Macbeth regrets hosting.
✅ Answer: (c) Everything offered is Duncan’s already.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Still to return your own."

◼️ 298. “We love him highly” reveals Duncan’s—
(a) Suspicion. (b) Hatred. (c) Naive affection. (d) Concern.
✅ Answer: (c) Naive affection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We love him highly..."

◼️ 299. “Conduct me to mine host” indicates—
(a) Formal gratitude. (b) Expectation of revenge. (c) Curiosity. (d) Disinterest.
✅ Answer: (a) Formal gratitude.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Conduct me to mine host..."

◼️ 300. What is the overall dramatic tone of this scene?
(a) Violent and bloody. (b) Cheerful but ironically foreboding. (c) Joyless and tense. (d) Religious and respectful.
✅ Answer: (b) Cheerful but ironically foreboding.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The cheerful welcome to Duncan stands in ironic contrast to the murder that follows.

◼️ 301. What does Macbeth wish if the assassination were simply done?

(a) It would be forgiven. (b) It were done quickly. (c) It were celebrated. (d) It were public knowledge.
✅ Answer: (b) It were done quickly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If it were done when ’tis done… then ’twere well / It were done quickly.”

◼️ 302. What prevents Macbeth from murdering Duncan without remorse?
(a) His ambition. (b) Divine right. (c) Consequences. (d) Lady Macbeth’s skepticism.
✅ Answer: (c) Consequences.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If th’ assassination / Could trammel up the consequence…”

◼️ 303. What does Macbeth fear will plague the murderer?
(a) Anger. (b) Sleep. (c) Bloody instructions returning on the inventor. (d) Accusations.
✅ Answer: (c) Bloody instructions returning on the inventor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bloody instructions… return / To plague th’ inventor.”

◼️ 304. Why does Macbeth say Duncan is in “double trust”?
(a) As king and friend. (b) As his guest and lord. (c) As his kinsman and subject. (d) As soldier and ally.
✅ Answer: (c) As his kinsman and subject.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He’s here in double trust: / First, as I am his kinsman and his subject…”

◼️ 305. According to Macbeth, what should a host do?
(a) Celebrate the guest. (b) Guard the door against murderers. (c) Reward loyalty. (d) Lie to everyone.
✅ Answer: (b) Guard the door against murderers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “…as his host, / Who should against his murderer shut the door…”

◼️ 306. Which virtue of Duncan makes the murder harder for Macbeth?
(a) His generosity. (b) His dignity. (c) His meekness and clarity. (d) His military skill.
✅ Answer: (c) His meekness and clarity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “he hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office…”

◼️ 307. How does Duncan’s virtue plead against his murder?
(a) Like sirens. (b) Like devils. (c) Like angels, trumpet-tongued. (d) Like pleading children.
✅ Answer: (c) Like angels, trumpet-tongued.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “his virtues / Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued…”

◼️ 308. What metaphor describes pity in Macbeth’s speech?
(a) A roaring lion. (b) A naked new-born babe. (c) An eagle. (d) A rolling thunder.
✅ Answer: (b) A naked new-born babe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And pity, like a naked new-born babe…”

◼️ 309. What drives Macbeth’s ambition?
(a) Courage. (b) Greed. (c) Vaulting ambition. (d) Peer pressure.
✅ Answer: (c) Vaulting ambition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have no spur… but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself…”

◼️ 310. When Lady Macbeth enters, what has Duncan just done?
(a) He fell asleep. (b) He has almost supped. (c) He walked in. (d) He fled.
✅ Answer: (b) He has almost supped.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: LADY MACBETH: “He has almost supp’d.”

◼️ 311. Why does Macbeth want to stop the plan?
(a) It brings honor to his name. (b) He’s afraid of failure. (c) Duncan honored him recently. (d) He has enough power.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan honored him recently.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He hath honour’d me of late… I have bought / Golden opinions…”

◼️ 312. Which phrase suggests ambition has altered Macbeth's character?
(a) “Hope drunk.” (b) “Strident drum.” (c) “Golden crown.” (d) “Vaulting fear.”
✅ Answer: (a) “Hope drunk.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: LADY: “Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dress’d yourself?”

◼️ 313. Lady Macbeth’s response to Macbeth’s hesitation includes a reference to which animal?
(a) Lion. (b) Cat. (c) Bear. (d) Snake.
✅ Answer: (b) Cat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: LADY: “…Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?”

◼️ 314. What is Macbeth’s reaction after Lady Macbeth's challenge?
(a) He curses her. (b) He calls for revenge. (c) He asserts manliness: “I dare do all…” (d) He calls off the plan.
✅ Answer: (c) He asserts manliness: “I dare do all…”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: MACBETH: “I dare do all that may become a man…”

◼️ 315. Lady Macbeth compares her tenderness to murder how?
(a) She’d rather starve. (b) She'd kill herself. (c) She’d dash her baby’s brains out. (d) She’d burn with hatred.
✅ Answer: (c) She’d dash her baby’s brains out.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I would… have pluck’d my nipple… and dash’d the brains out…”

◼️ 316. When Duncan is asleep, what are Lady Macbeth’s instructions to Macbeth’s chamberlains?
(a) Dress them in new clothes. (b) Sleep with them. (c) Get them so drunk they forget. (d) Bribe them.
✅ Answer: (c) Get them so drunk they forget.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: LADY: “his two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince…”

◼️ 317. Lady Macbeth refers to guilt noise post-murder as what?
(a) Silence. (b) Grief and clamour roar. (c) Peaceful whisper. (d) Nothing at all.
✅ Answer: (b) Grief and clamour roar.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: LADY: “Who dares receive it other, / As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar…”

◼️ 318. What must Macbeth falsely show?
(a) Brave face. (b) False face. (c) Timely strength. (d) Proud silence.
✅ Answer: (b) False face.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

◼️ 319. At the end, how does Lady Macbeth describe Macbeth’s resolve?
(a) Settled and bent up each corporal agent. (b) Weak and cowardly. (c) Hesitant. (d) Afraid.
✅ Answer: (a) Settled and bent up each corporal agent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: MACBETH: “I am settled, and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”

◼️ 320. What imagery does Macbeth use for his determination?
(a) Sword raised. (b) Mock the time with fairest show. (c) Crowning himself. (d) Holding the crown.
✅ Answer: (b) Mock the time with fairest show.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Away, and mock the time with fairest show…”

◼️ 321. What does Banquo imply by "There's husbandry in heaven"?
(a) The stars are unusually bright. (b) The moon is blood-red. (c) The heavens are conserving light. (d) The sky is clouded with storms.
✅ Answer: (c) The heavens are conserving light.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.”

◼️ 322. What does Banquo give to Fleance at the beginning of the scene?
(a) His torch. (b) His sword. (c) His shield. (d) A scroll.
✅ Answer: (b) His sword.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hold, take my sword.”

◼️ 323. What does Banquo request from "merciful powers"?
(a) Courage to fight Macbeth. (b) Sleep free from evil dreams. (c) Power to defeat ambition. (d) Protection from witches.
✅ Answer: (b) Sleep free from evil dreams.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Merciful powers, Restrain in me the cursed thoughts…”

◼️ 324. Why is Macbeth awake at night according to Banquo?
(a) He is planning Duncan’s murder. (b) He is preparing for the battle. (c) He is discussing with the Weird Sisters. (d) He is unprepared for Duncan’s visit.
✅ Answer: (d) He is unprepared for Duncan’s visit.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Being unprepar’d, Our will became the servant to defect…”

◼️ 325. What gift does the king send to Lady Macbeth?
(a) A crown. (b) A golden dagger. (c) A diamond. (d) A letter of thanks.
✅ Answer: (c) A diamond.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This diamond he greets your wife withal…”

◼️ 326. What does Banquo say about the Weird Sisters?
(a) He met them recently. (b) They gave him a warning. (c) He dreamt of them. (d) He plans to find them again.
✅ Answer: (c) He dreamt of them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters.”

◼️ 327. How does Macbeth respond to Banquo’s mention of the Weird Sisters?
(a) He ignores it. (b) He praises them. (c) He denies thinking of them. (d) He warns Banquo about them.
✅ Answer: (c) He denies thinking of them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I think not of them.”

◼️ 328. What does Macbeth offer Banquo if he supports him?
(a) Riches. (b) Honour. (c) Safety. (d) Land.
✅ Answer: (b) Honour.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you shall cleave to my consent… It shall make honour for you.”

◼️ 329. How does Banquo respond to Macbeth's proposition?
(a) He rejects it. (b) He agrees without condition. (c) He agrees with moral restraint. (d) He stays silent.
✅ Answer: (c) He agrees with moral restraint.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchis’d…”

◼️ 330. What supernatural element appears to Macbeth?
(a) A ghost. (b) A dagger. (c) A bleeding crown. (d) A floating hand.
✅ Answer: (b) A dagger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Is this a dagger which I see before me…”

◼️ 331. What does Macbeth question about the dagger?
(a) Whether it is cursed. (b) Whether it leads to Duncan. (c) Whether it’s real or imaginary. (d) Whether Banquo sees it too.
✅ Answer: (c) Whether it’s real or imaginary.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?”

◼️ 332. What covers the imaginary dagger according to Macbeth?
(a) Ashes. (b) Blood. (c) Chains. (d) Fire.
✅ Answer: (b) Blood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood…”

◼️ 333. What event does Macbeth compare to the current hour?
(a) Judgement Day. (b) A funeral. (c) The whole world asleep. (d) Tarquin’s stealthy movement.
✅ Answer: (d) Tarquin’s stealthy movement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With Tarquin’s ravishing strides…”

◼️ 334. What does Macbeth fear will reveal his actions?
(a) The raven’s cry. (b) His facial expression. (c) The very stones. (d) The howling wind.
✅ Answer: (c) The very stones.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thy very stones prate of my whereabout…”

◼️ 335. What sound triggers Macbeth’s final decision?
(a) Owl’s shriek. (b) Clock striking. (c) Lady Macbeth’s voice. (d) Bell.
✅ Answer: (d) Bell.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.”

◼️ 336. Who is the target of Macbeth’s act as the bell rings?
(a) Banquo. (b) Macduff. (c) Duncan. (d) Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

◼️ 337. What metaphor does Macbeth use to describe time?
(a) A ticking clock. (b) A sleeping lion. (c) A bank and shoal. (d) A winding path.
✅ Answer: (c) A bank and shoal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But here, upon this bank and shoal of time…”

◼️ 338. What sensory illusion does Macbeth admit to experiencing?
(a) Hearing whispers. (b) Seeing the dagger. (c) Feeling fire. (d) Seeing blood on his hands.
✅ Answer: (b) Seeing the dagger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

◼️ 339. How does Macbeth view “vaulting ambition”?
(a) As a noble trait. (b) As a tragic flaw. (c) As a kingly desire. (d) As a holy fire.
✅ Answer: (b) As a tragic flaw.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself…”

◼️ 340. Who does Macbeth say is the watchman of murder?
(a) Owl. (b) Raven. (c) Wolf. (d) Dog.
✅ Answer: (c) Wolf.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf…”

◼️ 341. “There’s husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.” — What figure of speech is used here?
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Apostrophe. (c) Metaphor. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Their candles” refers metaphorically to stars.

◼️ 342. What does the “dagger of the mind” symbolize?
(a) Macbeth’s loyalty. (b) His courage. (c) His guilt and ambition. (d) His hallucination.
✅ Answer: (c) His guilt and ambition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A dagger of the mind, a false creation…”

◼️ 343. “Nature seems dead”—What literary device is used here?
(a) Irony. (b) Personification. (c) Metonymy. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nature seems dead” gives life-like quality to “nature.”

◼️ 344. What does Macbeth mean by “hear not my steps”?
(a) He is speaking to Lady Macbeth. (b) He wants the earth to stay silent. (c) He is afraid of thunder. (d) He is addressing Duncan.
✅ Answer: (b) He wants the earth to stay silent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps…”

◼️ 345. “The bell invites me”—What does the bell symbolize?
(a) Celebration. (b) Wedding. (c) Doom/death. (d) Warning.
✅ Answer: (c) Doom/death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

◼️ 346. What does Macbeth imply by “We’d jump the life to come”?
(a) He is afraid of the afterlife. (b) He would risk damnation for success. (c) He believes in reincarnation. (d) He wishes to delay his fate.
✅ Answer: (b) He would risk damnation for success.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We’d jump the life to come.”

◼️ 347. “Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives”—What is the apparent meaning?
(a) Deeds are more effective than words. (b) Talking too much delays action. (c) Heated words cool intentions. (d) Speech is better than silence.
✅ Answer: (c) Heated words cool intentions.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.”

◼️ 348. What deeper truth lies behind “Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses”?
(a) Macbeth is blind. (b) His eyes deceive him. (c) He’s proud of his vision. (d) His hearing is lost.
✅ Answer: (b) His eyes deceive him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses.”

◼️ 349. What is the inner conflict Macbeth faces in the soliloquy?
(a) Between truth and lies. (b) Between loyalty and betrayal. (c) Between appearance and reality. (d) Between justice and cowardice.
✅ Answer: (b) Between loyalty and betrayal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth debates the murder of Duncan who is “here in double trust.”

◼️ 350. What is Macbeth's emotional state by the end of the soliloquy?
(a) Determined and resolute. (b) Doubtful and scared. (c) Calm and neutral. (d) Ashamed and broken.
✅ Answer: (a) Determined and resolute.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.”

◼️ 351. What emboldens Lady Macbeth at the beginning of the scene?
(a) The death of Duncan. (b) The witches’ prophecy. (c) The wine drunk by the grooms. (d) Macbeth’s courage.
✅ Answer: (c) The wine drunk by the grooms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.”

◼️ 352. What is described as the “fatal bellman”?
(a) The owl. (b) The church bell. (c) Macbeth. (d) The wind.
✅ Answer: (a) The owl.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman…”

◼️ 353. What had Lady Macbeth done to the grooms' drinks?
(a) Added poison. (b) Stirred wine. (c) Drugged their possets. (d) Mixed milk.
✅ Answer: (c) Drugged their possets.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have drugg’d their possets.”

◼️ 354. What inner conflict does Lady Macbeth confess about Duncan?
(a) His resemblance to her husband. (b) Her fear of the crime. (c) He resembled her father. (d) She pities his age.
✅ Answer: (c) He resembled her father.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.”

◼️ 355. What does Macbeth say immediately after reentering?
(a) “I have failed.” (b) “The king is dead.” (c) “It is done.” (d) “I have done the deed.”
✅ Answer: (d) “I have done the deed.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have done the deed.—Didst thou not hear a noise?”

◼️ 356. What sounds does Lady Macbeth say she heard?
(a) A scream and a door slam. (b) The owl scream and crickets cry. (c) A bell and knocking. (d) A wolf howl.
✅ Answer: (b) The owl scream and crickets cry.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.”

◼️ 357. What reaction does Macbeth describe in the sleeping men?
(a) Silence and calmness. (b) One laughed, one cried “Murder!” (c) They were wide awake. (d) They ran out screaming.
✅ Answer: (b) One laughed, one cried “Murder!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s one did laugh in’s sleep, and one cried, ‘Murder!’”

◼️ 358. What could Macbeth not say when the men blessed themselves?
(a) “Sleep.” (b) “Forgive me.” (c) “God help us.” (d) “Amen.”
✅ Answer: (d) “Amen.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I could not say ‘Amen’ when they did say ‘God bless us.’”

◼️ 359. What explanation does Lady Macbeth give for Macbeth’s reaction?
(a) It was a holy sign. (b) The night plays tricks. (c) It’s unwise to dwell on it. (d) Guilt is necessary.
✅ Answer: (c) It’s unwise to dwell on it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad.”

◼️ 360. What phrase does Macbeth imagine he hears?
(a) “Murderer!” (b) “Sleep no more!” (c) “Run!” (d) “Shame on you!”
✅ Answer: (b) “Sleep no more!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep…’”

◼️ 361. What metaphor does Macbeth use to describe sleep?
(a) The king’s shadow. (b) The mother of dreams. (c) The innocent balm. (d) Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
✅ Answer: (d) Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”

◼️ 362. What name is invoked when the voice blames the murder of sleep?
(a) Duncan. (b) Banquo. (c) Glamis and Cawdor. (d) Scotland.
✅ Answer: (c) Glamis and Cawdor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more.’”

◼️ 363. What action does Lady Macbeth scold Macbeth for?
(a) Crying. (b) Leaving the daggers. (c) Taking the crown. (d) Washing his hands.
✅ Answer: (b) Leaving the daggers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why did you bring these daggers from the place?”

◼️ 364. What does Lady Macbeth intend to do with the daggers?
(a) Hide them. (b) Give them to Banquo. (c) Smear the grooms with blood. (d) Drop them in the fire.
✅ Answer: (c) Smear the grooms with blood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Go carry them, and smear the sleepy grooms with blood.”

◼️ 365. What is Macbeth’s emotional state when asked to return the daggers?
(a) Angry. (b) Brave. (c) Ashamed. (d) Afraid.
✅ Answer: (d) Afraid.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done.”

◼️ 366. How does Lady Macbeth describe the dead and the sleeping?
(a) Like saints. (b) Like dust. (c) As paintings. (d) As statues.
✅ Answer: (c) As paintings.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.”

◼️ 367. What will Lady Macbeth do if Duncan is bleeding?
(a) Cry. (b) Scream. (c) Gild the grooms' faces. (d) Pray.
✅ Answer: (c) Gild the grooms' faces.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal…”

◼️ 368. What noise terrifies Macbeth after the murder?
(a) Screams. (b) The owl. (c) Knocking. (d) Drumbeats.
✅ Answer: (c) Knocking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Whence is that knocking?”

◼️ 369. What does Macbeth say about his hands?
(a) They are clean. (b) They feel cold. (c) They blind him. (d) They are blessed.
✅ Answer: (c) They blind him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What hands are here? Ha, they pluck out mine eyes!”

◼️ 370. What does Lady Macbeth advise Macbeth to do about the blood on his hands?
(a) Cover it with a cloth. (b) Wash it with water. (c) Burn the evidence. (d) Hide it under his cloak.
✅ Answer: (b) Wash it with water.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hand.”

◼️ 371. “The fatal bellman” refers to which literary device?
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Personification. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The owl is called “the fatal bellman,” likening it to a death messenger.

◼️ 372. “Hangman’s hands” is an example of which device?
(a) Alliteration. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Symbolism. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hangman’s hands” symbolize guilt and murder.

◼️ 373. “Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care”—what figure of speech is used?
(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Irony. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sleep is metaphorically described as a thread that repairs care.

◼️ 374. “A little water clears us of this deed”—What is the symbolic meaning of “water”?
(a) Innocence. (b) Forgetfulness. (c) Physical cleansing. (d) Washing away guilt.
✅ Answer: (d) Washing away guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Water symbolizes the attempt to remove guilt.

◼️ 375. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”—is an example of what?
(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (d) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth exaggerates the impossibility of cleansing his guilt.

◼️ 376. What does Macbeth mean when he says “Amen stuck in my throat”?
(a) He was choking. (b) He could not pray due to guilt. (c) He forgot the prayer. (d) He was interrupted.
✅ Answer: (b) He could not pray due to guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Amen stuck in my throat.”

◼️ 377. “Infirm of purpose!”—what does this reveal about Lady Macbeth?
(a) Her cruelty. (b) Her disappointment in Macbeth. (c) Her affection. (d) Her guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Her disappointment in Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She scolds Macbeth for not returning the daggers.

◼️ 378. What does “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures” suggest?
(a) Dreams are illusions. (b) Death is peaceful. (c) Fear is childish. (d) The dead pose no threat.
✅ Answer: (d) The dead pose no threat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.”

◼️ 379. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “A little water clears us of this deed”?
(a) Water removes guilt easily. (b) They should run to a river. (c) The blood will disappear. (d) They can forget the past.
✅ Answer: (a) Water removes guilt easily.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A little water clears us of this deed.”

◼️ 380. What does Macbeth mean by “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself”?
(a) He doesn’t understand what he’s done. (b) He feels he’s become a stranger to himself. (c) He forgot the act. (d) He wants to forget others.
✅ Answer: (b) He feels he’s become a stranger to himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.”

◼️ 381. What question does Macduff ask the Porter when he enters?
(a) “Is the King stirring?” (b) “Was it so late?” (c) “Who’s there?” (d) “What drink tonight?”
✅ Answer: (b) “Was it so late?”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed, That you do lie so late?”

◼️ 382. How many times does the Porter knock before opening the gate?
(a) Two knocks (b) Three knocks (c) Four knocks (d) Five knocks
✅ Answer: (b) Three knocks
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Knock, knock, knock.” (repeated thrice)

◼️ 383. Which character does the Porter humorously admit to letting into “hell gate”?
(a) A farmer (b) An equivocator (c) An English tailor (d) All of the above
✅ Answer: (d) All of the above
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The Porter mentions a farmer, equivocator, and tailor.

◼️ 384. What sin is associated with the Porter’s first knock?
(a) Greed (b) Pride (c) Lechery (d) Suicide
✅ Answer: (d) Suicide
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty.”

◼️ 385. Which profession does the Porter mock in the third knock?
(a) Farmer (b) Tailor (c) Thane (d) Soldier
✅ Answer: (b) Tailor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here’s an English tailor come hither, for stealing out of a French hose.”

◼️ 386. What three things does drink provoke, according to the Porter?
(a) Greed, wrath, gluttony (b) Nose-painting, sleep, urination (c) Theft, duping, violence (d) Courage, insight, compassion
✅ Answer: (b) Nose-painting, sleep, urination
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Drink… is a great provoker of three things… nose‑painting, sleep, and urine.”

◼️ 387. What metaphor does the Porter use for drink’s effect on lechery?
(a) Drink blinds the heart (b) Drink is an equivocator with lechery (c) Drink sets the mind ablaze (d) Drink enslaves the body
✅ Answer: (b) Drink is an equivocator with lechery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery… it makes him, and it mars him.”

◼️ 388. What does Macduff accuse drink of doing to the Porter last night?
(a) Singing (b) Lying in bed (c) Giving him the lie (d) Stealing from him
✅ Answer: (c) Giving him the lie
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.”

◼️ 389. What does the Porter say he did to "requite" drink?
(a) He drank more. (b) He cursed it. (c) He fought and cast it off. (d) He prayed.
✅ Answer: (c) He fought and cast it off.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I requited him… I made a shift to cast him.”

◼️ 390. Who attends Macduff and Lennox?
(a) Porter (b) Macbeth (c) Banquo (d) Duncan
✅ Answer: (a) Porter
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The Porter opens the gate to Macduff and Lennox.

◼️ 391. What greeting do Macduff and Lennox offer Macbeth?
(a) “Good afternoon” (b) “Good morrow” (c) “Welcome” (d) “Hail, Thane”
✅ Answer: (b) “Good morrow”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Good morrow, noble sir!” and “Good morrow, both!”

◼️ 392. Which chamber is Duncan in, according to Macbeth?
(a) The first chamber (b) The kitchen (c) Not yet stirring (d) Already gone
✅ Answer: (c) Not yet stirring
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff asks; Macbeth replies, “Not yet.”

◼️ 393. Which character is responsible for calling Duncan next?
(a) Lennox (b) Macbeth (c) Banquo (d) Porter
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll bring you to him.”

◼️ 394. What tone does the Porter’s speech evoke?
(a) Dismay (b) Comedy (c) Suspense (d) Horror
✅ Answer: (b) Comedy
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Humorous list of sinners in hell-gate style.

◼️ 395. The Porter compares hell’s gate to what?
(a) A tavern (b) A castle (c) A prison (d) Heaven
✅ Answer: (a) A tavern
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If a man were porter of hell gate… old turning the key” evokes tavern gate.

◼️ 396. What is the Porter’s final remark before opening?
(a) “Here’s hell.” (b) “I pray you, remember the porter.” (c) “Time for bed.” (d) “Hail, sinners!”
✅ Answer: (b) “I pray you, remember the porter.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: That line closes his speech before he opens.

◼️ 397. Macduff’s question suggests he thinks what of the porter?
(a) He overslept (b) He’s drunk (c) He’s sick (d) He’s late
✅ Answer: (d) He’s late
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Was it so late… that you do lie so late?”

◼️ 398. Lennox calls Macbeth what?
(a) “My lord” (b) “Master” (c) “Noble sir” (d) “Friend”
✅ Answer: (c) “Noble sir”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lennox greets with “Good morrow, noble sir!”

◼️ 399. The Porter compares the place’s coldness to what?
(a) Arctic (b) Hell (c) Heaven (d) His heart
✅ Answer: (b) Hell
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But this place is too cold for hell.”

◼️ 400. What time indication shows the murder happened early morning?
(a) The chickens crowing (b) “Second cock” (c) “Half-mast” (d) “Midnight”
✅ Answer: (b) “Second cock”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We were carousing till the second cock.”

◼️ 401. The Porter’s references to Belzebub and devils are examples of what figure?
(a) Personification (b) Irony (c) Allusion (d) Hyperbole
✅ Answer: (c) Allusion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He invokes “Belzebub” and “devil’s name.”

◼️ 402. “Equivocator” is used metaphorically to describe what?
(a) A liar (b) A sinner (c) A drunk (d) A tailor
✅ Answer: (a) A liar
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He “could swear in both scales,” equivocating truth.

◼️ 403. The repeated “knock, knock, knock” mimics what literary device?
(a) Assonance (b) Anaphora (c) Onomatopoeia (d) Refrain
✅ Answer: (c) Onomatopoeia
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The knocking sound is phonetically repeated.

◼️ 404. “Tavern of hell” imagery is a kind of what?
(a) Symbol of chaos (b) Simile (c) Metaphor (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Hell’s gate is compared to a tavern porter's post.

◼️ 405. Drink described as an “equivocator” is what figure of speech?
(a) Oxymoron (b) Metonymy (c) Metaphor (d) Synecdoche
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Drink… may be said to be an equivocator…”

◼️ 406. When the Porter says he “devil-porter it no further,” he means:
(a) He will laugh no more. (b) He’ll stop joking. (c) He won’t open again. (d) He’ll start crying.
✅ Answer: (b) He’ll stop joking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll devil-porter it no further” meaning no more hell-joking.

◼️ 407. When Macduff asks, “Was it so late...?” what is he implying?
(a) The murder delayed Macbeth (b) Porter overslept (c) Duncan is missing (d) Time has stopped
✅ Answer: (b) Porter overslept
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He implies the Porter is late to open.

◼️ 408. Macduff’s joke, “I believe drink gave thee the lie,” means:
(a) Drink made him lie (b) Drink stood him up (c) He spoke truth drunk (d) Drink misled him
✅ Answer: (a) Drink made him lie.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Drink gave thee the lie last night.”

◼️ 409. “Not yet” in response to “Is the King stirring?” reveals:
(a) Macduff is lying (b) Macbeth is hiding the truth (c) Duncan is still asleep (d) Storm outside
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan is still asleep.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth: “Not yet.”

◼️ 410. Macbeth’s line, “I’ll bring you to him,” indicates:
(a) Evasion (b) Honesty (c) Deception (d) Relief
✅ Answer: (c) Deception.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He leads Macduff away from Duncan’s chamber, deceiving them.

◼️ 411. What does Macduff call his task of waking Duncan?
(a) A blessed duty. (b) A joyful trouble. (c) A sleepless burden. (d) A terrible mission.
✅ Answer: (b) A joyful trouble.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I know this is a joyful trouble to you; But yet ’tis one.”

◼️ 412. What is Macbeth’s response to Macduff calling it a 'trouble'?
(a) “Trouble grows with honour.” (b) “Pain teaches service.” (c) “The labour we delight in physics pain.” (d) “Joy is labour’s remedy.”
✅ Answer: (c) “The labour we delight in physics pain.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth: “The labour we delight in physics pain.”

◼️ 413. What does Macduff call his act of calling the King?
(a) Honourable duty. (b) A sacred rite. (c) Limited service. (d) Morning allegiance.
✅ Answer: (c) Limited service.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For ’tis my limited service.”

◼️ 414. Who asks, “Goes the King hence today?”
(a) Macduff (b) Macbeth (c) Banquo (d) Lennox
✅ Answer: (d) Lennox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Goes the King hence today?”

◼️ 415. What is Macbeth’s reply when asked if the King leaves today?
(a) “He does. He did appoint so.” (b) “He said so yesterday.” (c) “He shall not go.” (d) “The King rests here.”
✅ Answer: (a) “He does. He did appoint so.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth: “He does. He did appoint so.”

◼️ 416. What natural disturbances does Lennox mention?
(a) Earthquakes and lightning. (b) Screams and trembling. (c) Blown down chimneys and screams of death. (d) Rain and thunder.
✅ Answer: (c) Blown down chimneys and screams of death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Our chimneys were blown down and… strange screams of death.”

◼️ 417. According to Lennox, what bird cried all night?
(a) Owl (b) Falcon (c) Obscure bird (d) Cockerel
✅ Answer: (c) Obscure bird
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The obscure bird clamour’d the live-long night.”

◼️ 418. What metaphor does Macduff use to describe Duncan’s murder?
(a) The dagger pierced the moon. (b) Confusion made his masterpiece. (c) The serpent stung the rose. (d) Death has dressed as sleep.
✅ Answer: (b) Confusion made his masterpiece.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!”

◼️ 419. What phrase does Macduff use to describe the murder of Duncan?
(a) Tyranny unleashed. (b) Blasphemy incarnate. (c) Most sacrilegious murder. (d) Unholy conspiracy.
✅ Answer: (c) Most sacrilegious murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope...”

◼️ 420. What structure does Macduff liken Duncan’s body to?
(a) A temple (b) A throne (c) A tomb (d) A fortress
✅ Answer: (a) A temple
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The Lord’s anointed temple...”

◼️ 421. What is Macbeth’s reaction to Macduff’s outburst?
(a) He cries. (b) He feigns shock. (c) He asks for clarity. (d) He runs.
✅ Answer: (c) He asks for clarity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth: “What is’t you say? the life?”

◼️ 422. How does Macduff describe what they will see in Duncan’s chamber?
(a) A king’s final rest. (b) A vision of war. (c) A new Gorgon. (d) A shadow of death.
✅ Answer: (c) A new Gorgon.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Approach the chamber… with a new Gorgon.”

◼️ 423. What does Macduff say to avoid describing the scene?
(a) “I cannot speak.” (b) “Do not ask.” (c) “Do not bid me speak.” (d) “Let none go there.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Do not bid me speak.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do not bid me speak.”

◼️ 424. What instrument signals the discovery of Duncan’s murder?
(a) Trumpet (b) Drum (c) Alarum bell (d) Whistle
✅ Answer: (c) Alarum bell
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Alarum-bell rings.]”

◼️ 425. What does Macduff call sleep?
(a) Life’s rest. (b) Death’s image. (c) Death’s counterfeit. (d) A ghost’s blanket.
✅ Answer: (c) Death’s counterfeit
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit...”

◼️ 426. Who does Macduff wake after discovering the murder?
(a) Lady Macbeth (b) Banquo and Donalbain (c) Macbeth and Lennox (d) Fleance and Malcolm
✅ Answer: (b) Banquo and Donalbain
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!”

◼️ 427. How does Macduff describe the effect of witnessing Duncan’s murder?
(a) Blinding (b) Wounding (c) Awakening (d) Comforting
✅ Answer: (a) Blinding
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Destroy your sight with a new Gorgon.”

◼️ 428. What metaphor does Lady Macbeth use for the bell’s sound?
(a) A shriek of pain (b) A death drum (c) A hideous trumpet (d) A sleeping storm
✅ Answer: (c) A hideous trumpet
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley...”

◼️ 429. What does Macduff say about telling Lady Macbeth the news?
(a) It would awaken her spirit. (b) It would frighten her. (c) It would murder her. (d) It would silence her.
✅ Answer: (c) It would murder her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The repetition, in a woman’s ear, Would murder as it fell.”

◼️ 430. What is Lady Macbeth’s first reaction to the news?
(a) She faints. (b) She blames the guards. (c) She asks if it happened in their house. (d) She runs to Duncan’s room.
✅ Answer: (c) She asks if it happened in their house.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Woe, alas! What, in our house?”

◼️ 431. “The labour we delight in physics pain” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole (b) Metaphor (c) Oxymoron (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Pleasure in duty relieves pain—metaphorical use of "physics".

◼️ 432. Macduff calling Duncan’s body “the life o’ th’ building” is an instance of:
(a) Personification (b) Apostrophe (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to the King as the soul or life of the temple (body).

◼️ 433. The “obscure bird” clamouring all night is a symbol of:
(a) Divine warning (b) Evil omen (c) Nighttime beauty (d) Courage
✅ Answer: (b) Evil omen
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Night birds often symbolize ominous events.

◼️ 434. The comparison to a “new Gorgon” evokes the image of:
(a) A dragon (b) A siren (c) Medusa (d) A banshee
✅ Answer: (c) Medusa
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A Gorgon (like Medusa) turns viewers to stone—used metaphorically.

◼️ 435. “Death’s counterfeit” for sleep is an example of:
(a) Irony (b) Metaphor (c) Simile (d) Symbolism
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit.”

◼️ 436. “Joyful trouble” is a paradox suggesting:
(a) Misery and delight can coexist in service. (b) It is not truly joyful. (c) He is forced to serve. (d) He wants to rest.
✅ Answer: (a) Misery and delight can coexist in service.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff says it joyfully but admits it is still a burden.

◼️ 437. “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece” means:
(a) Confusion rules Scotland. (b) Confusion is no longer possible. (c) The most chaotic act (murder) has happened. (d) All is resolved.
✅ Answer: (c) The most chaotic act (murder) has happened.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Confusion refers to murder upsetting divine order.

◼️ 438. Macduff calling Duncan’s body a temple reveals:
(a) His disrespect (b) His idolatry (c) His belief in divine kingship (d) His fear of the church
✅ Answer: (c) His belief in divine kingship
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The Lord’s anointed temple” implies sacredness of kingship.

◼️ 439. Lennox’s storm description indicates:
(a) Fear of thunder (b) Natural disorder mirrors political chaos (c) He loves weather (d) Weather controls fate
✅ Answer: (b) Natural disorder mirrors political chaos
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Dire combustion… prophesying… woeful time.”

◼️ 440. Lady Macbeth’s “What, in our house?” suggests apparent:
(a) Shock and disbelief (b) Relief (c) Pride (d) Anger
✅ Answer: (a) Shock and disbelief
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macbeth pretends horror that it happened in her home.

◼️ 441. What does Banquo urge Macduff to do after hearing the news of Duncan’s murder?
(a) Leave the place. (b) Contradict himself. (c) Accuse Macbeth. (d) Call for justice.
✅ Answer: (b) Contradict himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Dear Duff, I pr’ythee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so.”

◼️ 442. How does Macbeth describe life after Duncan’s death?
(a) Full of sorrow. (b) Without meaning. (c) Doomed to destruction. (d) Burdened by fate.
✅ Answer: (b) Without meaning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s nothing serious in mortality. All is but toys.”

◼️ 443. What metaphor does Macbeth use to express the end of vitality in life?
(a) “The flame is spent.” (b) “The wine of life is drawn.” (c) “The fountain has dried.” (d) “The breath is vanished.”
✅ Answer: (b) “The wine of life is drawn.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left...”

◼️ 444. What news does Donalbain seek after entering?
(a) “Who did this?” (b) “What is amiss?” (c) “Where is the king?” (d) “Has my father fled?”
✅ Answer: (b) “What is amiss?”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Donalbain: “What is amiss?”

◼️ 445. How does Macbeth answer Donalbain’s question?
(a) With guilt. (b) With panic. (c) With metaphor. (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (c) With metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopp’d.”

◼️ 446. Who reports that Duncan’s guards were found with bloodied daggers?
(a) Macbeth (b) Macduff (c) Lennox (d) Banquo
✅ Answer: (c) Lennox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Those of his chamber, as it seem’d, had done’t...”

◼️ 447. What were the murderers doing when found, according to Lennox?
(a) Laughing (b) Weeping (c) Distracted and staring (d) Attempting to escape
✅ Answer: (c) Distracted and staring
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They star’d, and were distracted...”

◼️ 448. What does Macbeth admit to doing out of ‘fury’?
(a) Lying to the nobles. (b) Killing the guards. (c) Fleeing the scene. (d) Destroying evidence.
✅ Answer: (b) Killing the guards.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That I did kill them.”

◼️ 449. Who immediately questions Macbeth’s action?
(a) Donalbain (b) Malcolm (c) Macduff (d) Banquo
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff: “Wherefore did you so?”

◼️ 450. What does Macbeth call Duncan’s wounds?
(a) Crimson rivers (b) Breaches in nature (c) Deep sacrifices (d) Bleeding stars
✅ Answer: (b) Breaches in nature
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature...”

◼️ 451. What physical condition does Lady Macbeth feign after Macbeth’s speech?
(a) Seizure (b) Unconsciousness (c) Fainting (d) Numbness
✅ Answer: (c) Fainting
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Help me hence, ho!”

◼️ 452. Who instructs others to “look to the lady”?
(a) Macbeth (b) Banquo (c) Malcolm (d) Macduff
✅ Answer: (d) Macduff
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Look to the lady.”

◼️ 453. What does Malcolm suggest about everyone remaining silent?
(a) It is suspicious. (b) It is natural. (c) It hides guilt. (d) It suppresses their right.
✅ Answer: (d) It suppresses their right.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why do we hold our tongues, That most may claim this argument for ours?”

◼️ 454. What reason does Donalbain give for leaving?
(a) There is danger even in smiles. (b) The killers are still here. (c) The guards are watching. (d) The castle is cursed.
✅ Answer: (a) There is danger even in smiles.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”

◼️ 455. Where does Malcolm decide to go?
(a) Ireland (b) France (c) Norway (d) England
✅ Answer: (d) England
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll to England.”

◼️ 456. Where does Donalbain say he will go?
(a) Ireland (b) England (c) France (d) Denmark
✅ Answer: (a) Ireland
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To Ireland, I.”

◼️ 457. What metaphor does Malcolm use for Duncan’s murder plot?
(a) Poisoned cup (b) Murderous shaft (c) Broken mirror (d) Shattered crown
✅ Answer: (b) Murderous shaft
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This murderous shaft that’s shot Hath not yet lighted...”

◼️ 458. What does Banquo propose after Lady Macbeth is taken away?
(a) They should flee. (b) They should meet to discuss. (c) They should arrest Macbeth. (d) They should go to the king’s body.
✅ Answer: (b) They should meet to discuss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us meet, And question this most bloody piece of work...”

◼️ 459. How does Macbeth close this group interaction?
(a) “Let us mourn and pray.” (b) “Let’s put on manly readiness.” (c) “Let the gods guide us.” (d) “Come with me in silence.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Let’s put on manly readiness.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let’s briefly put on manly readiness...”

◼️ 460. What does Malcolm say about expressing false sorrow?
(a) “It’s the coward’s tool.” (b) “The wicked do it easily.” (c) “The false man does it easy.” (d) “The wolf howls with tears.”
✅ Answer: (c) “The false man does it easy.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.”

◼️ 461. “The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees is left” is an example of:
(a) Personification (b) Hyperbole (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Compares life’s richness to wine; lees symbolizes lifelessness.

◼️ 462. “There’s daggers in men’s smiles” uses:
(a) Irony (b) Alliteration (c) Metaphor (d) Euphemism
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Smiles hide deadly intentions—metaphoric.

◼️ 463. “His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood” is a use of:
(a) Visual imagery and metaphor (b) Allegory (c) Euphemism (d) Apostrophe
✅ Answer: (a) Visual imagery and metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Royalty depicted through precious metals.

◼️ 464. “This murderous shaft that’s shot hath not yet lighted” compares the plot to a:
(a) Dart (b) Lightning bolt (c) Bullet (d) Arrow
✅ Answer: (d) Arrow
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Shaft = arrow; extended metaphor for impending danger.

◼️ 465. “Unmannerly breech’d with gore” is best described as:
(a) Euphemism (b) Hyperbole (c) Violent imagery (d) Antithesis
✅ Answer: (c) Violent imagery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Graphic description of blood-soaked daggers.

◼️ 466. Macbeth’s declaration of repentance is actually a way to:
(a) Avoid guilt (b) Justify murder of guards (c) Blame Macduff (d) Test Malcolm
✅ Answer: (b) Justify murder of guards
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.”

◼️ 467. Lady Macbeth’s fainting spell is likely meant to:
(a) Mask Macbeth’s guilt (b) Express genuine sorrow (c) Call for attention (d) Signal fear
✅ Answer: (a) Mask Macbeth’s guilt
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It conveniently distracts others right after Macbeth’s long speech.

◼️ 468. “Our tears are not yet brew’d” means:
(a) They are unable to cry. (b) They are planning vengeance. (c) Their grief hasn’t surfaced yet. (d) The moment is not right.
✅ Answer: (c) Their grief hasn’t surfaced yet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Donalbain: “Our tears are not yet brew’d.”

◼️ 469. Malcolm’s phrase “Let’s not consort with them” implies:
(a) Desire for solitude (b) Distrust of the others (c) Respect for grief (d) Need to escape
✅ Answer: (b) Distrust of the others
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.”

◼️ 470. The phrase “There’s warrant in that theft which steals itself” implies:
(a) Justified escape when danger is near. (b) Guilt deserves punishment. (c) The crown will return. (d) Stealing is always sinful.
✅ Answer: (a) Justified escape when danger is near.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s warrant in that theft Which steals itself, when there’s no mercy left.”

◼️ 471. How many years does the Old Man claim to remember clearly?
(a) Fifty. (b) Sixty. (c) Seventy. (d) Eighty.
✅ Answer: (c) Seventy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Threescore and ten I can remember well.”

◼️ 472. What does the Old Man say about the current night compared to the past?
(a) It is mild. (b) It is usual. (c) It surpasses all past horror. (d) It is peaceful.
✅ Answer: (c) It surpasses all past horror.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But this sore night Hath trifled former knowings.”

◼️ 473. According to Ross, what seems to threaten the “bloody stage”?
(a) The storm. (b) The heavens. (c) The wind. (d) The sun.
✅ Answer: (b) The heavens.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, Threatens his bloody stage.”

◼️ 474. What natural phenomenon does Ross say is being “strangled”?
(a) The moon. (b) The wind. (c) The travelling lamp. (d) The ocean tide.
✅ Answer: (c) The travelling lamp.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.”

◼️ 475. What two possibilities does Ross suggest for the unnatural darkness?
(a) The sun’s sorrow or the sky’s grief. (b) Night’s rule or day’s shame. (c) God’s wrath or nature’s fear. (d) Storm or eclipse.
✅ Answer: (b) Night’s rule or day’s shame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame...”

◼️ 476. What unnatural event involving a falcon is described?
(a) It fell dead from the sky. (b) It was attacked by crows. (c) A mousing owl killed it. (d) It flew into the sun.
✅ Answer: (c) A mousing owl killed it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A falcon...was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.”

◼️ 477. How does Ross describe Duncan’s horses?
(a) Wild and untrained. (b) Noble and calm. (c) Swift and beautiful. (d) Fearful and old.
✅ Answer: (c) Swift and beautiful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race.”

◼️ 478. What did the horses do after Duncan's murder?
(a) Whinnied all night. (b) Escaped to the forest. (c) Broke their stalls and turned wild. (d) Lay silent.
✅ Answer: (c) Broke their stalls and turned wild.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Broke their stalls, flung out, Contending ’gainst obedience...”

◼️ 479. According to the Old Man, what terrifying thing did the horses do next?
(a) Trampled their masters. (b) Drowned in a river. (c) Ate each other. (d) Spoke like men.
✅ Answer: (c) Ate each other.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “’Tis said they eat each other.”

◼️ 480. Who enters just after Ross and the Old Man discuss these strange events?
(a) Macbeth. (b) Malcolm. (c) Macduff. (d) Donalbain.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here comes the good Macduff.”

◼️ 481. What is Macduff’s response when Ross asks how the world goes?
(a) “Terribly, as you see.” (b) “The heavens mourn.” (c) “Why, see you not?” (d) “All is doomed.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Why, see you not?”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACDUFF. Why, see you not?”

◼️ 482. Whom does Macduff say has been blamed for Duncan’s murder?
(a) The guards. (b) Macbeth. (c) The sons. (d) Those Macbeth has slain.
✅ Answer: (d) Those Macbeth has slain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Those that Macbeth hath slain.”

◼️ 483. What reason does Macduff give for the guards' involvement in the murder?
(a) They were traitors. (b) They were bribed. (c) They were mad. (d) They acted on impulse.
✅ Answer: (b) They were bribed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They were suborn’d.”

◼️ 484. What casts suspicion on Malcolm and Donalbain?
(a) They left the castle secretly. (b) They were armed. (c) They were nearby at the time. (d) They confessed.
✅ Answer: (a) They left the castle secretly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Malcolm and Donalbain...Are stol’n away and fled.”

◼️ 485. What theme does Ross lament regarding ambition?
(a) It causes madness. (b) It murders reason. (c) It devours itself. (d) It betrays friendship.
✅ Answer: (c) It devours itself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up Thine own life’s means!”

◼️ 486. Where has Macbeth gone to be invested?
(a) Inverness. (b) Colmekill. (c) Scone. (d) Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (c) Scone.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is already nam’d; and gone to Scone To be invested.”

◼️ 487. What is Colmekill known for?
(a) Royal coronations. (b) Sacred burials. (c) Warrior training. (d) Banquets and feasts.
✅ Answer: (b) Sacred burials.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The sacred storehouse of his predecessors, And guardian of their bones.”

◼️ 488. Where does Macduff say he will go instead of Scone?
(a) Fife. (b) Forres. (c) England. (d) Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (a) Fife.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, cousin, I’ll to Fife.”

◼️ 489. What is Macduff’s cryptic remark about robes meant to suggest?
(a) The past was better. (b) Change is good. (c) The new king is unworthy. (d) Clothing is symbolic.
✅ Answer: (c) The new king is unworthy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”

◼️ 490. What final blessing does the Old Man give?
(a) “God’s vengeance come quickly.” (b) “Heaven defend the just.” (c) “God’s benison go with you.” (d) “May peace find the land.”
✅ Answer: (c) “God’s benison go with you.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “God’s benison go with you; and with those That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!”

◼️ 491. “Dark night strangles the travelling lamp” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Alliteration (c) Personification (d) Simile
✅ Answer: (c) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Darkness is described as strangling light.

◼️ 492. The image of the owl killing a falcon symbolizes:
(a) Weather change (b) Weakness in nature (c) Power reversal and unnatural events (d) Natural law
✅ Answer: (c) Power reversal and unnatural events
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A falcon...was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.”

◼️ 493. “Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up thine own life’s means” contains:
(a) Irony (b) Simile (c) Hyperbole (d) Metaphor
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ambition described as a devouring beast.

◼️ 494. “The heavens...threatens his bloody stage” implies:
(a) Nature supports Macbeth. (b) Nature disapproves of human cruelty. (c) Macbeth will be crowned. (d) It’s just a coincidence.
✅ Answer: (b) Nature disapproves of human cruelty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The heavens, as troubled with man’s act...”

◼️ 495. The phrase “old robes” and “new” in Macduff’s remark is a symbol of:
(a) Fashion (b) Past and present kingship (c) Treason (d) Wealth
✅ Answer: (b) Past and present kingship
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Lest our old robes sit easier than our new.”

◼️ 496. “Why, see you not?” implies that Macduff feels:
(a) Surprised by Ross’s ignorance. (b) Guilty for not speaking up. (c) Hopeful. (d) Secretive.
✅ Answer: (a) Surprised by Ross’s ignorance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff’s rhetorical question expresses obviousness.

◼️ 497. “Suborn’d” in this context means:
(a) Bribed. (b) Deceived. (c) Promoted. (d) Protected.
✅ Answer: (a) Bribed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They were suborn’d.”

◼️ 498. “Minions of their race” indicates the horses were:
(a) Low-born. (b) Strongest of breed. (c) Fastest runners. (d) Wild by nature.
✅ Answer: (b) Strongest of breed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race.”

◼️ 499. Macduff’s refusal to go to Scone suggests:
(a) Disinterest in politics. (b) Loyalty to Donalbain. (c) Suspicion of Macbeth. (d) Obedience to prophecy.
✅ Answer: (c) Suspicion of Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His actions and words (“old robes...new”) imply resistance.

◼️ 500. “God’s benison...make good of bad” expresses hope that:
(a) Macbeth rules well. (b) Truth prevails and order is restored. (c) War ends soon. (d) The sons return.
✅ Answer: (b) Truth prevails and order is restored.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That would make good of bad, and friends of foes.”

◼️ 501. What does Banquo suspect about Macbeth's rise to power?

(a) He thinks Macbeth is favored by Duncan. (b) He believes Macbeth gained power honestly. (c) He suspects Macbeth played foully for it. (d) He assumes Macbeth is not ambitious.
✅ Answer: (c) He suspects Macbeth played foully for it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thou play’dst most foully for’t."

◼️ 502. What hope does Banquo express for himself after recalling the witches’ prophecy?
(a) That he will defeat Macbeth. (b) That his sons will be kings. (c) That Macbeth will protect him. (d) That Fleance will escape.
✅ Answer: (b) That his sons will be kings.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "But that myself should be the root and father of many kings."

◼️ 503. How does Lady Macbeth describe Banquo's absence from the feast if forgotten?
(a) A minor inconvenience. (b) A dishonor to the king. (c) A gap and unbecoming. (d) A delay to supper.
✅ Answer: (c) A gap and unbecoming.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "It had been as a gap in our great feast, And all-thing unbecoming."

◼️ 504. What is Macbeth's tone toward Banquo during their exchange?
(a) Hostile and jealous. (b) Cordial but calculating. (c) Openly accusatory. (d) Fearful and trembling.
✅ Answer: (b) Cordial but calculating.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth calls Banquo “our chief guest” while planning his death.

◼️ 505. What does Macbeth inquire about regarding Banquo’s movements?
(a) Whether he’s meeting Malcolm. (b) If he’s going to England. (c) Where and how far he will ride. (d) If he suspects Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Where and how far he will ride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Is’t far you ride?"

◼️ 506. Why is Fleance's company significant to Macbeth?
(a) He is an heir to Duncan. (b) He is Banquo’s ally. (c) He poses a threat to Macbeth’s line. (d) He is a messenger.
✅ Answer: (c) He poses a threat to Macbeth’s line.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!"

◼️ 507. What emotion dominates Macbeth’s soliloquy after Banquo exits?
(a) Guilt. (b) Envy. (c) Relief. (d) Curiosity.
✅ Answer: (b) Envy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Our fears in Banquo stick deep."

◼️ 508. What metaphor does Macbeth use to describe his insecure kingship?
(a) Barren sceptre. (b) Tarnished throne. (c) Shifting crown. (d) Empty glory.
✅ Answer: (a) Barren sceptre.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And put a barren sceptre in my gripe."

◼️ 509. Why does Macbeth fear Banquo above all others?
(a) Banquo is popular. (b) Banquo is a soldier. (c) Banquo is wise and courageous. (d) Banquo is untrustworthy.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo is wise and courageous.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour."

◼️ 510. What past example does Macbeth use to explain his own feeling of inferiority to Banquo?
(a) Julius Caesar’s assassination. (b) Mark Antony’s fear of Caesar. (c) Duncan’s death. (d) A vision of witches.
✅ Answer: (b) Mark Antony’s fear of Caesar.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My genius is rebuk’d; as, it is said, Mark Antony’s was by Caesar."

◼️ 511. What has Macbeth "given to the common enemy of man"?
(a) His title. (b) His soul. (c) His secrets. (d) His peace.
✅ Answer: (b) His soul.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man."

◼️ 512. How does Macbeth view fate in this scene?
(a) As something passive. (b) As unjust. (c) As a thing to fight. (d) As unpredictable.
✅ Answer: (c) As a thing to fight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come, fate, into the list, And champion me to th’ utterance!"

◼️ 513. What is Macbeth's reason for turning to the murderers?
(a) He needs allies. (b) He wants revenge. (c) He convinces them Banquo is to blame. (d) He wants to test their loyalty.
✅ Answer: (c) He convinces them Banquo is to blame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That it was he, in the times past, which held you So under fortune."

◼️ 514. What does Macbeth seek to manipulate in the murderers?
(a) Their courage. (b) Their ambition. (c) Their hatred. (d) Their love for Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Their hatred.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "How you were borne in hand, how cross’d."

◼️ 515. What impression does Macbeth give of Banquo to the murderers?
(a) A noble man. (b) A false prophet. (c) The cause of their downfall. (d) An outsider.
✅ Answer: (c) The cause of their downfall.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thus did Banquo."

◼️ 516. What theme is reinforced by Macbeth’s manipulation of the murderers?
(a) Justice. (b) Tyranny and betrayal. (c) Loyalty. (d) Honor in warfare.
✅ Answer: (b) Tyranny and betrayal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth uses falsehood to incite murder.

◼️ 517. What does Macbeth's "fruitless crown" signify?
(a) A temporary power. (b) A meaningless victory. (c) Power without legacy. (d) Banquo’s prophecy.
✅ Answer: (c) Power without legacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown."

◼️ 518. What do Macbeth’s speeches to the murderers show about his mental state?
(a) Stable but angry. (b) Cunning and desperate. (c) Paranoid but calm. (d) Fearful and resigned.
✅ Answer: (b) Cunning and desperate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He carefully spins lies to persuade them.

◼️ 519. What does Macbeth mean by “commend you to their backs”?
(a) He sends Banquo away safely. (b) He entrusts Banquo to his horse. (c) He tells Banquo to escape. (d) He wishes Banquo to stay.
✅ Answer: (b) He entrusts Banquo to his horse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "So I do commend you to their backs."

◼️ 520. What political concern does Macbeth voice regarding Malcolm and Donalbain?
(a) They are plotting against him. (b) They have gathered armies. (c) They are spreading lies abroad. (d) They have joined Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) They are spreading lies abroad.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Filling their hearers With strange invention."

◼️ 521. What literary device is present in “barren sceptre”?

(a) Metaphor. (b) Irony. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And put a barren sceptre in my gripe."

◼️ 522. “Mark Antony’s was by Caesar” is an example of which device?
(a) Simile. (b) Allusion. (c) Symbolism. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Allusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My genius is rebuk’d; as, it is said, Mark Antony’s was by Caesar."

◼️ 523. What does “fruitless crown” symbolize?
(a) A royal failure. (b) Power without lineage. (c) A hidden rebellion. (d) Macbeth’s guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Power without lineage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown."

◼️ 524. “Common enemy of man” is a symbolic reference to—
(a) Macbeth. (b) Fate. (c) The Devil. (d) Time.
✅ Answer: (c) The Devil.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man."

◼️ 525. “Champion me to th’ utterance” contains what figure of speech?
(a) Apostrophe. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Personification. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth is calling upon fate to fight for him.

◼️ 526. What does Macbeth’s “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” imply?

(a) He wants to enjoy his power. (b) He doubts his strength. (c) Power means nothing without security. (d) He regrets being king.
✅ Answer: (c) Power means nothing without security.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus."

◼️ 527. What inner conflict does Macbeth reveal in his soliloquy?
(a) Guilt and morality. (b) Love and loyalty. (c) Fear and ambition. (d) Peace and power.
✅ Answer: (c) Fear and ambition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth fears Banquo’s heirs will take his crown.

◼️ 528. What does “filed my mind” suggest?
(a) Organized thoughts. (b) Contaminated conscience. (c) Secret plotting. (d) Logical clarity.
✅ Answer: (b) Contaminated conscience.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind."

◼️ 529. Why does Macbeth feel cheated by fate?
(a) He has no sons. (b) He must keep fighting. (c) He has no peace. (d) Banquo’s line will succeed him.
✅ Answer: (d) Banquo’s line will succeed him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!"

◼️ 530. What’s the inner irony in Macbeth’s feast planning?
(a) He plans to honor Banquo. (b) He plans a peaceful celebration. (c) He uses it as a cover to kill Banquo. (d) He gives Banquo a new title.
✅ Answer: (c) He uses it as a cover to kill Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth invites Banquo warmly while plotting his death.

◼️ 531. What does Macbeth suggest when he says, "Do you find your patience so predominant in your nature"?

(a) The murderers should wait patiently. (b) They are not patient enough. (c) They are too forgiving. (d) They are acting rashly.
✅ Answer: (c) They are too forgiving.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Do you find your patience so predominant in your nature, That you can let this go?"

◼️ 532. What rhetorical technique does Macbeth use when he says, "Are you so gospell’d"?
(a) He appeals to reason. (b) He flatters them. (c) He shames them. (d) He promises reward.
✅ Answer: (c) He shames them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Are you so gospell’d, To pray for this good man...?"

◼️ 533. What does Macbeth accuse Banquo of doing to the murderers?
(a) Killing their family. (b) Ruining their fortunes. (c) Driving them into exile. (d) Stealing their lands.
✅ Answer: (b) Ruining their fortunes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the grave, And beggar’d yours forever?"

◼️ 534. What is the murderers’ initial response to Macbeth’s appeal?
(a) They agree at once. (b) They claim they are not fighters. (c) They say they are men. (d) They blame Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) They say they are men.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We are men, my liege."

◼️ 535. How does Macbeth describe the difference among men?
(a) Based on lineage. (b) Based on fortune. (c) Like different breeds of dogs. (d) Like ranks in the army.
✅ Answer: (c) Like different breeds of dogs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs..."

◼️ 536. What is Macbeth’s point in listing types of dogs?
(a) To insult the murderers. (b) To argue that not all men are equal. (c) To describe hunting. (d) To compare Banquo to a dog.
✅ Answer: (b) To argue that not all men are equal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And so of men. Now, if you have a station in the file..."

◼️ 537. What does Macbeth promise if the murderers accept the task?
(a) Wealth. (b) A place in his court. (c) His love and protection. (d) Eternal fame.
✅ Answer: (c) His love and protection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Grapples you to the heart and love of us."

◼️ 538. What personal grievance does the Second Murderer share?
(a) He lost his lands. (b) He is reckless from suffering. (c) He is exiled. (d) He wants revenge on Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) He is reckless from suffering.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Hath so incens’d that I am reckless what I do to spite the world."

◼️ 539. What motivates the First Murderer to act?
(a) Loyalty to Macbeth. (b) Hatred of Fleance. (c) Desperation and suffering. (d) Envy of Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Desperation and suffering.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune."

◼️ 540. Why does Macbeth claim he cannot kill Banquo openly?
(a) Banquo is guarded. (b) He has no opportunity. (c) Banquo has shared friends. (d) Banquo is innocent.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo has shared friends.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "For certain friends that are both his and mine."

◼️ 541. What does Macbeth mean by “barefac’d power”?
(a) Secret influence. (b) Lawful authority. (c) Unmasked and blatant force. (d) Charisma.
✅ Answer: (c) Unmasked and blatant force.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Though I could With barefac’d power sweep him from my sight."

◼️ 542. How does Macbeth mask his true intentions?
(a) By using riddles. (b) By blaming Lady Macbeth. (c) By hiding the murder plan from the public. (d) By pretending to be mad.
✅ Answer: (c) By hiding the murder plan from the public.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Masking the business from the common eye."

◼️ 543. What assurance does Macbeth seek from the murderers?
(a) That they won’t flee. (b) That they are strong enough. (c) That they will act quickly. (d) That they are resolved.
✅ Answer: (d) That they are resolved.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Resolve yourselves apart. I’ll come to you anon."

◼️ 544. What is Fleance’s role in Macbeth’s plan?
(a) To testify for Banquo. (b) To be a hostage. (c) To be murdered with Banquo. (d) To be exiled.
✅ Answer: (c) To be murdered with Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Fleance his son... must embrace the fate of that dark hour."

◼️ 545. What is meant by Macbeth’s need for “a clearness”?
(a) A clean conscience. (b) A clear escape from blame. (c) Public confession. (d) Legal justification.
✅ Answer: (b) A clear escape from blame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Always thought That I require a clearness."

◼️ 546. What role does timing play in Macbeth’s plan?
(a) It must happen at dawn. (b) It must be done after Macbeth's speech. (c) It must happen that night. (d) It must follow Fleance’s departure.
✅ Answer: (c) It must happen that night.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "For’t must be done tonight."

◼️ 547. What does Macbeth promise to provide the murderers before the deed?
(a) Swords. (b) A perfect spy and information. (c) Gold. (d) Magic potions.
✅ Answer: (b) A perfect spy and information.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ time."

◼️ 548. What final image does Macbeth use to seal Banquo’s fate?
(a) Dagger in the mind. (b) Starless night. (c) Banquo’s soul flying to heaven. (d) Banquo’s shadow.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo’s soul flying to heaven.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight."

◼️ 549. How does Macbeth characterize Banquo’s continued life?
(a) As a blessing. (b) As a danger to health. (c) As irrelevant. (d) As pitiful.
✅ Answer: (b) As a danger to health.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Who wear our health but sickly in his life."

◼️ 550. What is the murderers’ final response to Macbeth’s plan?
(a) They ask for more time. (b) They request money. (c) They accept the task. (d) They hesitate.
✅ Answer: (c) They accept the task.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We are resolv’d, my lord."

◼️ 551. “As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs” is an example of—

(a) Simile. (b) Catalogue. (c) Personification. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (b) Catalogue.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: List of dog breeds used to compare types of men.

◼️ 552. “We wear our health but sickly in his life” contains which figure?
(a) Metaphor. (b) Irony. (c) Simile. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Health is metaphorically sick due to Banquo’s presence.

◼️ 553. “Your spirits shine through you” is an example of—
(a) Irony. (b) Symbolism. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbaton.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth sees eagerness like shining spirits.

◼️ 554. “Fate of that dark hour” is an example of—
(a) Euphemism. (b) Metonymy. (c) Personification. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Fate and time are given human action.

◼️ 555. “Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven…” is an example of—
(a) Apostrophe. (b) Metaphor. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth addresses Banquo’s soul in absence.

◼️ 556. What does Macbeth imply when he says, “And with him Fleance... must embrace the fate”?

(a) Fleance must be spared. (b) Fleance will become king. (c) Fleance must also die. (d) Fate will spare Fleance.
✅ Answer: (c) Fleance must also die.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Fleance... must embrace the fate of that dark hour."

◼️ 557. “Clearness” in Macbeth’s speech refers to—
(a) Truth. (b) Physical light. (c) Absence of suspicion. (d) Mental clarity.
✅ Answer: (c) Absence of suspicion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That I require a clearness."

◼️ 558. What does Macbeth mean by "file" in “station in the file”?
(a) Legal document. (b) Hierarchy or rank. (c) A written decree. (d) A knife.
✅ Answer: (b) Hierarchy or rank.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If you have a station in the file, Not i’ th’ worst rank of manhood."

◼️ 559. What does the phrase “thrusts against my near’st of life” suggest?
(a) Banquo is too old. (b) Banquo is close to Macbeth’s family. (c) Banquo threatens Macbeth’s life and legacy. (d) Banquo serves Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo threatens Macbeth’s life and legacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That every minute of his being thrusts Against my near’st of life."

◼️ 560. What deeper motive underlies Macbeth’s manipulation of the murderers?
(a) Avoiding public scandal. (b) Securing Lady Macbeth’s love. (c) Avoiding blood on his hands. (d) Preserving his political image.
✅ Answer: (d) Preserving his political image.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Masking the business from the common eye For sundry weighty reasons."

◼️ 561. What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says “Naught’s had, all’s spent”?

(a) They have nothing and have spent nothing. (b) They have gained all they wanted with satisfaction. (c) They have achieved their desire, but it brought no content. (d) Their wealth is now gone.
✅ Answer: (c) They have achieved their desire, but it brought no content.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Naught’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content.”

◼️ 562. What thought torments Macbeth according to his conversation with Lady Macbeth?

(a) Fear of being caught for Duncan’s murder. (b) Banquo’s and Fleance’s survival. (c) Guilt over Duncan’s death. (d) His wife’s discontent.
✅ Answer: (b) Banquo’s and Fleance’s survival.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.”

◼️ 563. What does Macbeth mean by “We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it”?

(a) They have failed in their mission. (b) Duncan is not dead. (c) Danger still remains. (d) Banquo has been killed.
✅ Answer: (c) Danger still remains.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.”

◼️ 564. What does Macbeth suggest about Duncan’s state after death?

(a) Duncan is in eternal pain. (b) Duncan’s spirit haunts them. (c) Duncan now sleeps peacefully. (d) Duncan will soon be avenged.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan now sleeps peacefully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Duncan is in his grave...nothing Can touch him further.”

◼️ 565. Why does Macbeth instruct Lady Macbeth to treat Banquo well?

(a) To show genuine friendship. (b) To avoid suspicion. (c) Because he has forgiven Banquo. (d) To ensure Banquo attends the feast.
✅ Answer: (b) To avoid suspicion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let your remembrance apply to Banquo...Unsafe the while, that we Must lave our honours in these flattering streams.”

◼️ 566. What does Lady Macbeth advise her husband to do with his troubled thoughts?

(a) Hide them. (b) Forget them. (c) Speak of them openly. (d) Use them to plan further.
✅ Answer: (b) Forget them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what’s done is done.”

◼️ 567. How does Macbeth describe his mind when thinking of Banquo and Fleance?

(a) Filled with dread. (b) Full of peace. (c) Full of scorpions. (d) Calm and resolute.
✅ Answer: (c) Full of scorpions.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

◼️ 568. What does “seeling night” refer to in Macbeth’s invocation?

(a) A peaceful evening. (b) A healer of pain. (c) Night that blinds all light. (d) A night of celebration.
✅ Answer: (c) Night that blinds all light.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.”

◼️ 569. Which phrase reveals Macbeth’s growing acceptance of evil?

(a) “We have scorch’d the snake.” (b) “What’s done is done.” (c) “Be innocent of the knowledge.” (d) “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
✅ Answer: (d) “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”

◼️ 570. What image does Macbeth use for masking his true feelings?

(a) Mirror. (b) Crown. (c) Vizard. (d) Sword.
✅ Answer: (c) Vizard.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And make our faces vizards to our hearts.”

◼️ 571. What is Lady Macbeth’s state of mind when she says “Naught’s had, all’s spent”?

(a) Satisfied. (b) Triumphant. (c) Disillusioned. (d) Hopeful.
✅ Answer: (c) Disillusioned.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Where our desire is got without content.”

◼️ 572. “Restless ecstasy” in Macbeth refers to —

(a) Joyful excitement. (b) Peaceful sleep. (c) Unending mental torture. (d) Emotional paralysis.
✅ Answer: (c) Unending mental torture.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.”

◼️ 573. Macbeth’s plan for Banquo and Fleance is to —

(a) Banish them. (b) Frame them for Duncan’s death. (c) Kill them. (d) Confront them publicly.
✅ Answer: (c) Kill them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There shall be done A deed of dreadful note.”

◼️ 574. “Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond” refers to —

(a) Macbeth’s marriage. (b) His promise to the witches. (c) His loyalty to Banquo. (d) Banquo’s claim to kingship.
✅ Answer: (d) Banquo’s claim to kingship.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!”

◼️ 575. Macbeth’s tone in “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” is —

(a) Tender and deceptive. (b) Angry and forceful. (c) Guilty and sorrowful. (d) Mocking and scornful.
✅ Answer: (a) Tender and deceptive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed.”

◼️ 576. “Light thickens; and the crow makes wing to th’ rooky wood” suggests —

(a) Approaching danger. (b) Arrival of dawn. (c) Celebration time. (d) Banquo’s escape.
✅ Answer: (a) Approaching danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.”

◼️ 577. Lady Macbeth’s remark “What’s done is done” is meant to —

(a) Encourage Macbeth to seek forgiveness. (b) Remind Macbeth of his duty. (c) Console and pacify him. (d) Warn him of consequences.
✅ Answer: (c) Console and pacify him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What’s done is done.”

◼️ 578. “Both the worlds suffer” implies —

(a) Heaven and earth. (b) Macbeth’s public and private life. (c) Day and night. (d) Past and future.
✅ Answer: (a) Heaven and earth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let the frame of things disjoint, Both the worlds suffer.”

◼️ 579. Why does Macbeth avoid telling Lady Macbeth his plan?

(a) He distrusts her. (b) He doesn’t want her to stop him. (c) He wants her to act innocent. (d) He fears she’ll inform Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) He wants her to act innocent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.”

◼️ 580. “To gain our peace, have sent to peace” implies —

(a) Sending Duncan to his kingdom. (b) Achieving harmony through Duncan’s death. (c) Escaping battle. (d) Sending away Banquo.
✅ Answer: (b) Achieving harmony through Duncan’s death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace.”

◼️ 581. Identify the figure of speech in “O, full of scorpions is my mind.”

(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Alliteration. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth compares his troubled mind to being full of poisonous scorpions.

◼️ 582. “Light thickens” uses what poetic device?

(a) Metonymy. (b) Oxymoron. (c) Personification. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth gives human quality to light, saying it 'thickens'.

◼️ 583. What does “seeling night” symbolically represent?

(a) A peaceful rest. (b) The arrival of fate. (c) Blindness and evil. (d) Daylight returning.
✅ Answer: (c) Blindness and evil.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come, seeling night...Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.”

◼️ 584. “Make our faces vizards to our hearts” is an example of —

(a) Simile. (b) Allegory. (c) Symbolism. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Vizards” (masks) symbolise deception hiding true emotions.

◼️ 585. “The bat hath flown...shard-born beetle...night’s yawning peal” evoke —

(a) Comic relief. (b) Romantic imagery. (c) Gothic horror atmosphere. (d) Hopeful visions.
✅ Answer: (c) Gothic horror atmosphere.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: These dark and nocturnal creatures signal impending death.

◼️ 586. What is the inner meaning of “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”?

(a) Lady Macbeth should remain ignorant for her safety. (b) He trusts her with the plan. (c) He no longer loves her. (d) She must help him later.
✅ Answer: (a) Lady Macbeth should remain ignorant for her safety.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth is protecting her from knowing his murderous intent.

◼️ 587. “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill” suggests Macbeth’s belief that —

(a) Evil grows stronger over time. (b) Good will conquer eventually. (c) One sin justifies another. (d) He has repented.
✅ Answer: (a) Evil grows stronger over time.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth affirms that once evil begins, it feeds on itself.

◼️ 588. The phrase “After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well” implies —

(a) Duncan died after an illness. (b) Duncan rests peacefully after life’s chaos. (c) Duncan’s soul haunts Macbeth. (d) Duncan’s sleep is temporary.
✅ Answer: (b) Duncan rests peacefully after life’s chaos.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.”

◼️ 589. What is the implication of “Treason has done his worst”?

(a) Treason can no longer harm Duncan. (b) More treason is expected. (c) Macbeth feels guiltless. (d) Lady Macbeth fears betrayal.
✅ Answer: (a) Treason can no longer harm Duncan.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Treason has done his worst.”

◼️ 590. “Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue” implies —

(a) Banquo should be exposed publicly. (b) He should be honoured in appearance and speech. (c) Macbeth is ready to crown Banquo. (d) Banquo must be punished.
✅ Answer: (b) He should be honoured in appearance and speech.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth instructs Lady Macbeth to praise Banquo to conceal intentions.

◼️ 591. Who does the Third Murderer say instructed him to join the other two?

(a) Banquo. (b) Fleance. (c) Macbeth. (d) Lady Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Macbeth.” – Third Murderer

◼️ 592. How does the Second Murderer reassure the others about the Third Murderer?

(a) He says the Third Murderer was sent by Banquo.
(b) He says Macbeth trusts him and gave clear orders.
(c) He doubts the Third Murderer’s loyalty.
(d) He asks for Macbeth’s confirmation.
✅ Answer: (b) He says Macbeth trusts him and gave clear orders.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He needs not our mistrust; since he delivers Our offices and what we have to do.”

◼️ 593. What time of day is it when the scene begins?

(a) Early morning. (b) Noon. (c) Twilight. (d) Midnight.
✅ Answer: (c) Twilight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.”

◼️ 594. What is meant by “Now spurs the lated traveller apace”?

(a) The traveler stops for the night.
(b) The traveler is resting.
(c) The traveler rushes to find shelter.
(d) The traveler is lost.
✅ Answer: (c) The traveler rushes to find shelter.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now spurs the lated traveller apace, To gain the timely inn.”

◼️ 595. Who is referred to as “the subject of our watch”?

(a) Duncan. (b) Fleance. (c) Banquo. (d) Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And near approaches The subject of our watch.”

◼️ 596. What do the Murderers hear before Banquo’s entrance?

(a) Screams. (b) Thunder. (c) Horses. (d) Footsteps.
✅ Answer: (c) Horses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hark! I hear horses.”

◼️ 597. What does Banquo say just before he is attacked?

(a) “Who is there?”
(b) “Let me pass in peace.”
(c) “It will be rain tonight.”
(d) “Macbeth, is that you?”
✅ Answer: (c) “It will be rain tonight.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It will be rain tonight.” – Banquo

◼️ 598. What phrase initiates the murder?

(a) “Strike now.”
(b) “Let it come down.”
(c) “Do it quick.”
(d) “End him.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Let it come down.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let it come down.” – First Murderer

◼️ 599. What is Banquo’s final plea before he dies?

(a) “Let me live!”
(b) “Mercy, Macbeth!”
(c) “Fly, good Fleance!”
(d) “Fleance, save me!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Fly, good Fleance!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

◼️ 600. What word does Banquo use to denounce the murder?

(a) Treason. (b) Deceit. (c) Evil. (d) Treachery.
✅ Answer: (d) Treachery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O, treachery!”

◼️ 601. What does Banquo hope Fleance will do in future?

(a) Escape to safety.
(b) Avenge his death.
(c) Stay silent.
(d) Never return.
✅ Answer: (b) Avenge his death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou mayst revenge—O slave!”

◼️ 602. Who is referred to as “slave” in Banquo’s last words?

(a) Macbeth. (b) Fleance. (c) One of the murderers. (d) Duncan.
✅ Answer: (c) One of the murderers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou mayst revenge—O slave!”

◼️ 603. What happens to the torch during the attack?

(a) It is used as a weapon.
(b) It falls and goes out.
(c) It lights up the courtyard.
(d) Fleance takes it and flees.
✅ Answer: (b) It falls and goes out.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Who did strike out the light?”

◼️ 604. What is the immediate result of striking out the light?

(a) The attack is more successful.
(b) Banquo is saved.
(c) Fleance escapes.
(d) More murderers arrive.
✅ Answer: (c) Fleance escapes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s but one down: the son is fled.”

◼️ 605. What do the murderers admit after the attack?

(a) They were successful.
(b) They killed both targets.
(c) Their plan failed.
(d) They regret the murder.
✅ Answer: (c) Their plan failed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have lost best half of our affair.”

◼️ 606. What is meant by “His horses go about”?

(a) His horses have died.
(b) His horses took a longer route.
(c) The horses entered the wrong gate.
(d) The horses escaped.
✅ Answer: (b) His horses took a longer route.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His horses go about.”

◼️ 607. Why is Banquo on foot despite having horses?

(a) He was attacked while riding.
(b) He gave the horses away.
(c) He usually walked from there.
(d) Fleance was riding alone.
✅ Answer: (c) He usually walked from there.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He does usually, So all men do, from hence to the palace gate Make it their walk.”

◼️ 608. What purpose does the Third Murderer serve in this scene?

(a) He is a silent spy.
(b) He ensures Fleance’s safety.
(c) He adds confusion.
(d) He is Macbeth’s extra assurance.
✅ Answer: (d) He is Macbeth’s extra assurance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Macbeth.” – as answer to who bid him join.

◼️ 609. How far are Banquo and Fleance from the gate when attacked?

(a) One mile. (b) Ten steps. (c) A furlong. (d) Unknown.
✅ Answer: (a) One mile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Almost a mile.”

◼️ 610. What is the murderers’ final decision after the failed attempt?

(a) To chase Fleance.
(b) To hide Banquo’s body.
(c) To report back to Macbeth.
(d) To flee the kingdom.
✅ Answer: (c) To report back to Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let’s away, and say how much is done.”

◼️ 611. “It will be rain tonight” is an example of —

(a) Symbolism. (b) Irony. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Pun.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Banquo predicts rain, but is struck by a storm of violence instead.

◼️ 612. “The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day” contains —

(a) Metaphor. (b) Personification. (c) Visual imagery. (d) Onomatopoeia.
✅ Answer: (c) Visual imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes the fading light of dusk.

◼️ 613. “Let it come down” symbolizes —

(a) A fall of rain. (b) Descent of doom. (c) Beginning of the murder. (d) Mercy from heaven.
✅ Answer: (c) Beginning of the murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase marks the assault on Banquo.

◼️ 614. “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!” uses —

(a) Repetition. (b) Apostrophe. (c) Alliteration. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (a) Repetition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Emphasizes urgency in Banquo’s final plea.

◼️ 615. The torch in this scene is a symbol of —

(a) Wisdom. (b) Betrayal. (c) Life and exposure. (d) Strength.
✅ Answer: (c) Life and exposure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Its extinguishing signals loss of light, truth, and escape.

◼️ 616. What is the inner meaning of “Fly, good Fleance”?

(a) Banquo wants Fleance to seek help.
(b) He urges Fleance to take revenge later.
(c) He fears Fleance will die next.
(d) Fleance should inform Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) He urges Fleance to take revenge later.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou mayst revenge—O slave!”

◼️ 617. “We have lost best half of our affair” means —

(a) They killed the wrong man.
(b) The murderers failed entirely.
(c) The more important target escaped.
(d) They regret the killing.
✅ Answer: (c) The more important target escaped.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s but one down: the son is fled.”

◼️ 618. What is implied by the phrase “Who did strike out the light?”

(a) The murderers were unprepared.
(b) Someone sabotaged the plan.
(c) The darkness helped Fleance escape.
(d) The torch was too bright.
✅ Answer: (c) The darkness helped Fleance escape.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The lack of light allowed Fleance to flee.

◼️ 619. Why is Banquo’s cry of “O, treachery!” important?

(a) It implicates Macbeth indirectly.
(b) It curses Fleance.
(c) It proves Banquo’s weakness.
(d) It saves him.
✅ Answer: (a) It implicates Macbeth indirectly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Banquo realises betrayal, linking the crime to Macbeth.

◼️ 620. “Let’s away, and say how much is done” implies —

(a) The murderers are satisfied.
(b) They fear Fleance’s revenge.
(c) They will lie to Macbeth.
(d) They will report partial success.
✅ Answer: (d) They will report partial success.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: They acknowledge not all was achieved.

◼️ 621. What does Macbeth mean by “You know your own degrees”?

(a) You know your faults. (b) You know your social ranks. (c) You know the weather conditions. (d) You know your achievements.
✅ Answer: (b) You know your social ranks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You know your own degrees, sit down.”

◼️ 622. How does Macbeth greet the lords after they sit?

(a) With a toast. (b) With silence. (c) With “hearty welcome.” (d) With a prayer.
✅ Answer: (c) With “hearty welcome.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “At first and last the hearty welcome.”

◼️ 623. How does Macbeth describe his role at the banquet?

(a) Humble host. (b) Fearless king. (c) Proud warrior. (d) Lonely ruler.
✅ Answer: (a) Humble host.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And play the humble host.”

◼️ 624. What is Lady Macbeth’s response when asked to welcome the guests?

(a) She refuses. (b) She hesitates. (c) She asks Macbeth to do it for her. (d) She speaks formally to each guest.
✅ Answer: (c) She asks Macbeth to do it for her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends.”

◼️ 625. What does Lady Macbeth say about her feelings toward the guests?

(a) She wants them to leave. (b) Her heart welcomes them. (c) She doesn’t care for them. (d) She is anxious about their judgment.
✅ Answer: (b) Her heart welcomes them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For my heart speaks they are welcome.”

◼️ 626. When the First Murderer arrives, where does Macbeth choose to sit?

(a) Near Lady Macbeth. (b) By the door. (c) In the middle. (d) On the throne.
✅ Answer: (c) In the middle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here I’ll sit i’ th’ midst.”

◼️ 627. What is Macbeth’s mood when he sees blood on the Murderer’s face?

(a) Shocked. (b) Relieved. (c) Fearful. (d) Calm.
✅ Answer: (b) Relieved.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “’Tis better thee without than he within.”

◼️ 628. What does the Murderer confirm about Banquo’s condition?

(a) He was poisoned. (b) He escaped. (c) He was stabbed once. (d) His throat is cut.
✅ Answer: (d) His throat is cut.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His throat is cut. That I did for him.”

◼️ 629. What compliment does Macbeth give the Murderer?

(a) “You are loyal.” (b) “You are brave.” (c) “You are the best o’ th’ cut-throats.” (d) “You are the devil’s blade.”
✅ Answer: (c) “You are the best o’ th’ cut-throats.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou art the best o’ th’ cut-throats.”

◼️ 630. What does Macbeth mean by calling someone “the nonpareil”?

(a) A fool. (b) A traitor. (c) A noble soul. (d) A person without equal.
✅ Answer: (d) A person without equal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If thou didst it, thou art the nonpareil.”

◼️ 631. How does Macbeth react upon hearing Fleance escaped?

(a) He is indifferent. (b) He laughs. (c) He feels his fear return. (d) He calls another meeting.
✅ Answer: (c) He feels his fear return.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then comes my fit again.”

◼️ **632. What metaphors does Macbeth use to describe how he felt before hearing Fleance escaped?**

(a) “Weak as water.” (b) “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.” (c) “Dark as the grave.” (d) “Hard as thunder.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I had else been perfect; Whole as the marble, founded as the rock.”

◼️ 633. What is Macbeth now “cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d” into?

(a) Darkness and sorrow. (b) Suspicion and guilt. (c) Doubts and fears. (d) Rage and fury.
✅ Answer: (c) Doubts and fears.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

◼️ 634. What imagery is used to describe Banquo’s body?

(a) Lying in a forest. (b) Safe in a ditch. (c) Covered in chains. (d) Hidden in a cave.
✅ Answer: (b) Safe in a ditch.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ay, my good lord. Safe in a ditch he bides.”

◼️ 635. How many wounds does the Murderer say are on Banquo’s head?

(a) Ten. (b) Five. (c) Twenty. (d) Forty.
✅ Answer: (c) Twenty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With twenty trenched gashes on his head.”

◼️ 636. What does Macbeth compare Fleance to?

(a) A dragon. (b) A worm. (c) A lion’s cub. (d) A ghost.
✅ Answer: (b) A worm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The worm that’s fled.”

◼️ 637. Why does Macbeth say the worm is not dangerous at the moment?

(a) It is sleeping. (b) It has no teeth. (c) It is away from Scotland. (d) It is being watched.
✅ Answer: (b) It has no teeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No teeth for th’ present.”

◼️ 638. What does Macbeth tell the Murderer at the end of their talk?

(a) “Flee the country.” (b) “Wait outside.” (c) “We’ll speak tomorrow.” (d) “Kill Fleance tonight.”
✅ Answer: (c) “We’ll speak tomorrow.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Get thee gone; tomorrow We’ll hear, ourselves, again.”

◼️ 639. What is Lady Macbeth’s complaint when Macbeth fails to cheer the guests?

(a) He ruins the mood. (b) He is ill. (c) He is talking to a servant. (d) He eats before others.
✅ Answer: (a) He ruins the mood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You do not give the cheer.”

◼️ 640. What does Lady Macbeth compare the feast to without welcome?

(a) A funeral. (b) A battle. (c) A sale. (d) A dry meeting.
✅ Answer: (c) A sale.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The feast is sold That is not often vouch’d.”

◼️ 641. Who enters silently during Lady Macbeth’s rebuke to Macbeth?

(a) Fleance’s ghost. (b) Banquo’s ghost. (c) Lennox. (d) A servant.
✅ Answer: (b) Banquo’s ghost.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The Ghost of Banquo rises, and sits in Macbeth’s place.”

◼️ 642. “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock” is an example of —

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth compares his former peace of mind to strong natural elements.

◼️ 643. “Cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d” is an example of —

(a) Symbolism. (b) Alliteration. (c) Repetition. (d) Assonance.
✅ Answer: (b) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repeated hard ‘c’ sounds mimic emotional constraint.

◼️ 644. “There the grown serpent lies” contains which figure of speech?

(a) Allusion. (b) Simile. (c) Symbol. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbol.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Banquo is symbolized as a dangerous serpent.

◼️ 645. “The worm that’s fled” is symbolic of —

(a) Innocence. (b) Death. (c) Youthful threat. (d) Peace.
✅ Answer: (c) Youthful threat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Fleance is seen as harmless now, but dangerous later.

◼️ 646. The Ghost of Banquo sitting in Macbeth’s place symbolizes —

(a) Guilt and retribution. (b) Confusion of power. (c) Revenge from the dead. (d) Supernatural politics.
✅ Answer: (a) Guilt and retribution.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Banquo’s ghost claims Macbeth’s seat and haunts his conscience.

◼️ 647. What does Macbeth really mean by “Sweet remembrancer”?

(a) A toast to Lady Macbeth. (b) He refers to Banquo. (c) He tries to cover his fear. (d) He praises the food.
✅ Answer: (c) He tries to cover his fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It’s a forced gesture to hide his inner turmoil.

◼️ 648. What is meant by “To feed were best at home”?

(a) Eating should be private. (b) A meal without ceremony is just eating. (c) Meals are better in castles. (d) Food is tastier at home.
✅ Answer: (b) A meal without ceremony is just eating.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To feed were best at home; From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony.”

◼️ 649. What is the inner meaning behind Macbeth asking if Banquo is “dispatch’d”?

(a) He wants to know if Banquo ran away. (b) He wishes Banquo safe travel. (c) He is confirming Banquo’s murder. (d) He is unsure of Banquo’s role.
✅ Answer: (c) He is confirming Banquo’s murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Is he dispatch’d?”

◼️ 650. “Get thee gone; tomorrow / We’ll hear, ourselves, again” implies —

(a) Macbeth will reward him. (b) Macbeth will kill the murderer. (c) More murder plans may follow. (d) Macbeth wants no more reports.
✅ Answer: (c) More murder plans may follow.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth seems unsettled and planning further.

◼️ 651. “Health on both” refers to —

(a) Macbeth and Banquo. (b) Appetite and digestion. (c) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. (d) The king and country.
✅ Answer: (b) Appetite and digestion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!”

◼️ 652. Who invites Macbeth to sit at the banquet?

(a) Ross. (b) Lennox. (c) Lady Macbeth. (d) The First Murderer.
✅ Answer: (b) Lennox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “May’t please your Highness sit.”

◼️ 653. What does Macbeth say would complete the honour of the banquet?

(a) Presence of Macduff. (b) Music and song. (c) Presence of Banquo. (d) Wine and laughter.
✅ Answer: (c) Presence of Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Were the grac’d person of our Banquo present.”

◼️ 654. What tone does Macbeth use when referring to Banquo’s absence?

(a) Mocking. (b) Accusing. (c) Forgiving. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Accusing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Who may I rather challenge for unkindness than pity for mischance!”

◼️ 655. How does Ross respond to Banquo’s absence?

(a) He blames Banquo’s messenger. (b) He reminds Macbeth of Banquo’s promise. (c) He ignores it. (d) He suspects Banquo.
✅ Answer: (b) He reminds Macbeth of Banquo’s promise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise.”

◼️ 656. What odd statement does Macbeth make about the table?

(a) It is haunted. (b) It is broken. (c) It is full. (d) It is empty.
✅ Answer: (c) It is full.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The table’s full.”

◼️ 657. Who points out that there is a reserved place for Macbeth?

(a) Lennox. (b) Ross. (c) Lady Macbeth. (d) A Lord.
✅ Answer: (a) Lennox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here is a place reserv’d, sir.”

◼️ 658. How does Macbeth react upon seeing the ghost?

(a) He prays. (b) He smiles. (c) He accuses the ghost. (d) He walks out.
✅ Answer: (c) He accuses the ghost.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Which of you have done this?”

◼️ 659. What does Macbeth claim the ghost cannot say?

(a) “I forgive you.” (b) “You killed me.” (c) “Where am I?” (d) “I am Banquo.”
✅ Answer: (b) “You killed me.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou canst not say I did it.”

◼️ 660. What does Macbeth tell the ghost not to do?

(a) Speak. (b) Appear again. (c) Shake its head. (d) Shake its hair.
✅ Answer: (d) Shake its hair.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Never shake Thy gory locks at me.”

◼️ 661. What is Ross’s reaction to Macbeth’s behavior?

(a) He laughs. (b) He calls the guards. (c) He tells the guests to rise. (d) He prays.
✅ Answer: (c) He tells the guests to rise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Gentlemen, rise; his Highness is not well.”

◼️ 662. What excuse does Lady Macbeth give for Macbeth’s strange behavior?

(a) Illness. (b) Madness. (c) Drunkenness. (d) A lifelong habit.
✅ Answer: (d) A lifelong habit.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth.”

◼️ 663. What does Lady Macbeth advise the guests not to do?

(a) Ask questions. (b) Feed Macbeth. (c) Watch him too closely. (d) Leave the table.
✅ Answer: (c) Watch him too closely.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If much you note him, You shall offend him.”

◼️ 664. What question does Lady Macbeth pointedly ask Macbeth?

(a) “Are you mad?” (b) “Do you dream?” (c) “Are you a man?” (d) “Do you know yourself?”
✅ Answer: (c) “Are you a man?”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Are you a man?”

◼️ 665. What is Macbeth’s answer to being asked if he is a man?

(a) “I am a ghost.” (b) “I am a bold one.” (c) “I am afraid.” (d) “I am the devil.”
✅ Answer: (b) “I am a bold one.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal the devil.”

◼️ 666. What does Lady Macbeth call Macbeth’s visions?

(a) “Proper visions.” (b) “Foolish dreams.” (c) “Paintings of fear.” (d) “Dead men’s whispers.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Paintings of fear.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This is the very painting of your fear.”

◼️ 667. To what earlier event does Lady Macbeth compare his visions?

(a) Murder of Macdonwald. (b) Dagger before Duncan’s murder. (c) Ghost of Duncan. (d) Appearance of the witches.
✅ Answer: (b) Dagger before Duncan’s murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This is the air-drawn dagger which you said, Led you to Duncan.”

◼️ 668. What does Lady Macbeth say Macbeth’s fits resemble?

(a) Men in war. (b) Women’s ghost tales. (c) Soldiers’ fears. (d) Prophets’ warnings.
✅ Answer: (b) Women’s ghost tales.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire.”

◼️ 669. What does Macbeth see on the ghost’s face?

(a) Tears. (b) Blood. (c) Gory locks. (d) Crown of thorns.
✅ Answer: (c) Gory locks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Never shake Thy gory locks at me.”

◼️ 670. What shocking idea does Macbeth say about graves?

(a) They are empty. (b) They open during the day. (c) They send the dead back. (d) They burn with rage.
✅ Answer: (c) They send the dead back.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back.”

◼️ 671. What animal does Macbeth mention in frustration at the ghosts?

(a) Hawk. (b) Lion. (c) Kite. (d) Wolf.
✅ Answer: (c) Kite.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.”

◼️ 672. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “quite unmanned in folly”?

(a) You are behaving like a child. (b) You’ve lost your identity. (c) You’ve acted like a madman. (d) You’re being foolishly feminine.
✅ Answer: (c) You’ve acted like a madman.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, quite unmann’d in folly?”

◼️ 673. “Thy gory locks” symbolizes —

(a) Honour. (b) Wisdom. (c) Death and horror. (d) Power.
✅ Answer: (c) Death and horror.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Never shake Thy gory locks at me.”

◼️ 674. “Air-drawn dagger” is an example of —

(a) Metonymy. (b) Paradox. (c) Hallucination / Imagery. (d) Pun.
✅ Answer: (c) Hallucination / Imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This is the air-drawn dagger which you said, Led you to Duncan.”

◼️ 675. “Painting of your fear” is a —

(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Allegory. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This is the very painting of your fear.”

◼️ 676. “Shame itself!” is an example of —

(a) Apostrophe. (b) Euphemism. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macbeth personifies shame in direct address.

◼️ 677. “Our monuments shall be the maws of kites” is an example of —

(a) Personification. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Symbol.
✅ Answer: (d) Symbol.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Symbolizes death and how meaningless burials become.

◼️ 678. “Are you a man?” carries the inner meaning of —

(a) Bravery vs cowardice. (b) Manhood vs madness. (c) Honour vs shame. (d) Love vs guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Manhood vs madness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macbeth questions his masculinity due to his hallucination.

◼️ 679. What does “Push us from our stools” imply?

(a) Displacement of peace. (b) Loss of appetite. (c) Insult to the king. (d) Attack from nobles.
✅ Answer: (a) Displacement of peace.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And push us from our stools.”

◼️ 680. “The time has been” reflects on —

(a) Macbeth’s past fears. (b) Lady Macbeth’s warning. (c) Macbeth’s nostalgia for simpler rules of death. (d) Prophecy.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth’s nostalgia for simpler rules of death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die.”

◼️ 681. “Impostors to true fear” means —

(a) Real fear. (b) Pretenders of real fear. (c) Madness. (d) Cowards.
✅ Answer: (b) Pretenders of real fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “These flaws, and starts (Impostors to true fear)”

◼️ 682. What does Macbeth request after forgetting himself in front of the guests?

(a) To leave the hall immediately. (b) To bring him wine. (c) To remove the ghost. (d) To call Banquo in.
✅ Answer: (b) To bring him wine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come, love and health to all; Then I’ll sit down.—Give me some wine, fill full.”

◼️ 683. Who is the absent person Macbeth toasts to in front of the guests?
(a) Duncan. (b) Macduff. (c) Banquo. (d) Fleance.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss: Would he were here.”

◼️ 684. How does Macbeth describe the ghost’s eyes during the second appearance?
(a) Bloody and rolling. (b) Bright and divine. (c) Without speculation. (d) Wide and red.
✅ Answer: (c) Without speculation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!”

◼️ 685. What animal does Macbeth not mention while challenging the ghost?
(a) Russian bear. (b) Hyrcan tiger. (c) Arm’d rhinoceros. (d) Mountain lion.
✅ Answer: (d) Mountain lion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm’d rhinoceros, or th’ Hyrcan tiger.”

◼️ 686. What does Macbeth say would make him “the baby of a girl”?
(a) If he fled from the ghost. (b) If he dreamt of Banquo. (c) If he refused to sit. (d) If he denied murder.
✅ Answer: (a) If he fled from the ghost.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.”

◼️ 687. What emotion does Lady Macbeth claim Macbeth’s behavior has disrupted?
(a) Honour. (b) Security. (c) Mirth. (d) Brotherhood.
✅ Answer: (c) Mirth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting With most admir’d disorder.”

◼️ 688. What natural imagery does Macbeth use to describe how the ghost’s appearance should have stunned others?
(a) Thunderstorms. (b) Earthquakes. (c) Summer’s cloud. (d) Volcanic smoke.
✅ Answer: (c) Summer’s cloud.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer’s cloud.”

◼️ 689. What does Macbeth say about the guests' calm reaction to the ghost?
(a) They are wise. (b) They are brave. (c) They shame him. (d) They appear unnatural.
✅ Answer: (c) They shame him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe.”

◼️ 690. What physical comparison does Macbeth use to contrast his appearance with the guests’?
(a) Sweating brows vs. calm hands. (b) Green faces vs. ruby cheeks. (c) Blanch’d face vs. ruby cheeks. (d) Red lips vs. pale lips.
✅ Answer: (c) Blanch’d face vs. ruby cheeks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch’d with fear.”

◼️ 691. What does Lady Macbeth instruct everyone to do when Macbeth worsens?
(a) Sing a toast. (b) Leave immediately. (c) Talk calmly to him. (d) Ignore him and sit down.
✅ Answer: (b) Leave immediately.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “At once, good night:—Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.”

◼️ 692. What ominous proverb does Macbeth cite after the guests leave?
(a) Truth will prevail. (b) Blood will have blood. (c) The dead never stay buried. (d) Fate finds all.
✅ Answer: (b) Blood will have blood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.”

◼️ 693. Which of the following is not mentioned by Macbeth as sources of supernatural revelation?
(a) Rooks. (b) Magot-pies. (c) Ravens. (d) Choughs.
✅ Answer: (c) Ravens.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks…”

◼️ 694. What is the time of day when Lady Macbeth speaks of it being “almost at odds”?
(a) Noon and dusk. (b) Dusk and dawn. (c) Night and morning. (d) Midnight and sunrise.
✅ Answer: (c) Night and morning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Almost at odds with morning, which is which.”

◼️ 695. What does Macbeth plan to do the next day?
(a) Visit Banquo’s grave. (b) Kill Macduff. (c) Visit the Weird Sisters. (d) Flee to England.
✅ Answer: (c) Visit the Weird Sisters.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I will tomorrow (And betimes I will) to the Weird Sisters.”

◼️ 696. Why does Macbeth keep paid servants in the houses of nobles?
(a) To deliver letters. (b) For protection. (c) For spying. (d) For celebrations.
✅ Answer: (c) For spying.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee’d.”

◼️ 697. What does Macbeth mean by “returning were as tedious as go o’er”?
(a) Turning back now would be just as hard as continuing forward.
(b) He wants to reverse all wrongs.
(c) The Weird Sisters will guide him back.
(d) He wants to go to war and return victorious.
✅ Answer: (a) Turning back now would be just as hard as continuing forward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

◼️ 698. What does Macbeth resolve about the strange thoughts in his head?
(a) To confess them. (b) To ignore them. (c) To act on them before reflecting. (d) To pray over them.
✅ Answer: (c) To act on them before reflecting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.”

◼️ 699. What essential human need does Lady Macbeth say Macbeth lacks?
(a) Food. (b) Compassion. (c) Peace. (d) Sleep.
✅ Answer: (d) Sleep.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You lack the season of all natures, sleep.”

◼️ 700. What does Macbeth call his fear at the end of the scene?
(a) A warning. (b) A spiritual weakness. (c) Self-abuse. (d) A prophetic instinct.
✅ Answer: (c) Self-abuse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use.”

◼️ 701. “Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold” is an example of—

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Metaphor. (c) Personification. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The ghost is described as lifeless through metaphoric imagery.

◼️ 702. What is the significance of “Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear”?
(a) Literal fear of animals. (b) Symbol of exoticism. (c) Macbeth's bravado. (d) Suggestion of royalty.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth's bravado.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth invites terrifying forms but not Banquo’s ghost—highlighting psychological terror.

◼️ 703. “Unreal mock’ry, hence!” is an example of—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Oxymoron. (c) Apostrophe. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (c) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth speaks to the ghost as if it can hear.

◼️ 704. “You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe” suggests—
(a) Irony. (b) Metaphor. (c) Simile. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth finds himself alien to his own nature due to others' calm.

◼️ 705. “Blood will have blood” is best categorized as—
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Proverbial symbolism. (c) Satire. (d) Pun.
✅ Answer: (b) Proverbial symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Reflects the cycle of violence and retribution.

◼️ 706. What does “My strange and self-abuse is the initiate fear” imply?

(a) Macbeth is mentally ill. (b) His fear is new and untrained. (c) He is fearless. (d) He regrets nothing.
✅ Answer: (b) His fear is new and untrained.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Initiate fear” = unaccustomed to these fears.

◼️ 707. “Stand not upon the order of your going” means—
(a) Don't follow rank or formality. (b) Don’t move. (c) Wait for instructions. (d) Line up and go.
✅ Answer: (a) Don't follow rank or formality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macbeth tells them to leave informally to avoid further shame.

◼️ 708. “More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know” reveals Macbeth’s—
(a) Disinterest in fate. (b) Curiosity about sleep. (c) Dependence on prophecy. (d) Love for witches.
✅ Answer: (c) Dependence on prophecy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He now turns to them for assurance and truth.

◼️ 709. “I am in blood stepped in so far” reflects Macbeth’s—
(a) Pity for others. (b) Remorse and self-awareness. (c) Triumph. (d) Revenge.
✅ Answer: (b) Remorse and self-awareness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He acknowledges the irreversible path of murder he’s on.

◼️ 710. What does Lady Macbeth’s line “You lack the season of all natures” symbolically express?
(a) Lack of rest and natural rhythm. (b) Loss of appetite. (c) Lack of light. (d) Lack of royalty.
✅ Answer: (a) Lack of rest and natural rhythm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sleep is the “season” that balances and nourishes all things.

◼️ 711. How does Hecate react to the witches' involvement with Macbeth?

a. With joy. b. With indifference. c. With anger. d. With confusion.
✅ Answer: (c) With anger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Why, how now, Hecate? you look angerly."

◼️ 712. Whom does Hecate call “beldams”?
a. The Weird Sisters. b. Banquo and Macbeth. c. Her spirits. d. The Scottish lords.
✅ Answer: (a) The Weird Sisters.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Have I not reason, beldams as you are."

◼️ 713. According to Hecate, what kind of person is Macbeth?
a. Brave and loyal. b. Thoughtful and generous. c. Wayward and self-serving. d. Honest and trusting.
✅ Answer: (c) Wayward and self-serving.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "All you have done hath been but for a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful."

◼️ 714. What accusation does Hecate level at the witches?
a. They betrayed her. b. They disrespected Banquo. c. They used magic for good. d. They were too lazy.
✅ Answer: (a) They betrayed her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Was never call’d to bear my part, or show the glory of our art?"

◼️ 715. Where does Hecate command the witches to meet her?
a. On the battlefield. b. At Macbeth’s castle. c. In the pit of Acheron. d. At Dunsinane Hill.
✅ Answer: (c) In the pit of Acheron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And at the pit of Acheron meet me i’ th’ morning."

◼️ 716. Why does Hecate want Macbeth to come to the witches again?
a. To reward him. b. To frighten him. c. To show him his destiny. d. To arrest him.
✅ Answer: (c) To show him his destiny.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thither he will come to know his destiny."

◼️ 717. What must the witches prepare before the next meeting?
a. Food. b. Robes. c. Weapons. d. Spells and charms.
✅ Answer: (d) Spells and charms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your vessels and your spells provide, your charms, and everything beside."

◼️ 718. What kind of end does Hecate foresee for the night?
a. Joyful and peaceful. b. Dismal and fatal. c. Triumphant and bright. d. Mysterious and magical.
✅ Answer: (b) Dismal and fatal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "This night I’ll spend unto a dismal and a fatal end."

◼️ 719. What is meant by the “vap’rous drop profound”?
a. A jewel. b. A potion. c. A magical ingredient. d. A symbol of purity.
✅ Answer: (c) A magical ingredient.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "There hangs a vap’rous drop profound; I’ll catch it ere it come to ground."

◼️ 720. What is the purpose of the drop Hecate wants to catch?
a. To kill Macbeth. b. To raise illusions. c. To summon Banquo. d. To bless the land.
✅ Answer: (b) To raise illusions.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Shall raise such artificial sprites, as... shall draw him on to his confusion."

◼️ 721. What is the witches’ song heard at the end?
a. “Fair is foul and foul is fair.” b. “Come away, come away.” c. “Double, double, toil and trouble.” d. “He shall rise and fall.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Come away, come away.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Music and song within, 'Come away, come away' &c."

◼️ 722. What type of illusion does Hecate plan to use against Macbeth?
a. A hallucination of Banquo. b. Powerful visual tricks. c. Artificial spirits. d. Enchanted mirrors.
✅ Answer: (c) Artificial spirits.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Shall raise such artificial sprites..."

◼️ 723. How does Hecate describe Macbeth’s ambitions?
a. Noble and great. b. Foolish and minor. c. Above wisdom and fear. d. Aligned with destiny.
✅ Answer: (c) Above wisdom and fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes ’bove wisdom, grace, and fear."

◼️ 724. What is identified as man’s “chiefest enemy”?
a. Power. b. Confidence (security). c. Greed. d. Ambition.
✅ Answer: (b) Confidence (security).
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Security is mortals’ chiefest enemy."

◼️ 725. What is Hecate’s primary role in this scene?
a. Conscience to Macbeth. b. Supervisor of the witches. c. A prophet. d. A tragic victim.
✅ Answer: (b) Supervisor of the witches.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I, the mistress of your charms, the close contriver of all harms."

◼️ 726. Which line confirms Hecate’s magical mastery over spirits?
a. "Come, let’s make haste." b. "Great business must be wrought ere noon." c. "I am for th’ air." d. "Shall raise such artificial sprites."
✅ Answer: (d) "Shall raise such artificial sprites."
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exact line used.

◼️ 727. How do the witches respond to Hecate’s reprimand?
a. With defiance. b. With laughter. c. They remain silent. d. With submission.
✅ Answer: (d) With submission.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Come, let’s make haste; she’ll soon be back again."

◼️ 728. What is the ultimate purpose of Hecate’s plan for Macbeth?
a. To strengthen him. b. To confuse and destroy him. c. To teach him wisdom. d. To make him king again.
✅ Answer: (b) To confuse and destroy him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Shall draw him on to his confusion."

◼️ 729. What motivates Macbeth, according to Hecate?
a. Honour. b. Love. c. Personal gain. d. Vengeance.
✅ Answer: (c) Personal gain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Loves for his own ends, not for you."

◼️ 730. What tone does Hecate use throughout the scene?
a. Cheerful. b. Sarcastic. c. Stern and commanding. d. Humble and pleading.
✅ Answer: (c) Stern and commanding.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implied in her dominance over the witches and critical tone.

◼️ 731. “The pit of Acheron” alludes to which of the following?

a. A Scottish battlefield. b. A mythical underworld river. c. A secret cave. d. The throne room.
✅ Answer: (b) A mythical underworld river.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Classical allusion symbolising the underworld.

◼️ 732. “Upon the corner of the moon / There hangs a vap’rous drop profound” is an example of:
a. Hyperbole. b. Symbolism and personification. c. Satire. d. Onomatopoeia.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolism and personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The moon is personified; the drop symbolizes magical power.

◼️ 733. What does “He shall spurn fate, scorn death” symbolise?
a. Religious hope. b. Arrogance and rebellion. c. Wisdom. d. Magic’s limitations.
✅ Answer: (b) Arrogance and rebellion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth’s defiance of destiny shows his growing hubris.

◼️ 734. The phrase “artificial sprites” is an example of:
a. Simile. b. Alliteration. c. Irony. d. Allegory.
✅ Answer: (b) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition of the ‘s’ sound in “sprites” and “sleights.”

◼️ 735. “Security is mortals’ chiefest enemy” is best classified as:
a. Foreshadowing. b. Paradox. c. Euphemism. d. Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (a) Foreshadowing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Predicts that overconfidence will lead to Macbeth’s fall.

◼️ 736. What does Hecate mean by “spiteful and wrathful”?

a. Macbeth is a noble man. b. Macbeth is angry and vengeful. c. Macbeth is logical. d. Macbeth is humble.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth is angry and vengeful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Spiteful and wrathful" shows emotional instability and destructive intent.

◼️ 737. Interpret: “I am for th’ air.”
a. I’m going to disappear. b. I want to fly. c. I serve the wind god. d. I will breathe freely now.
✅ Answer: (a) I’m going to disappear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implies Hecate is vanishing or returning to the spirit realm.

◼️ 738. “Great business must be wrought ere noon” implies:
a. The witches plan a celebration. b. Hecate’s plan will unfold soon. c. Macbeth will be crowned again. d. A battle will happen.
✅ Answer: (b) Hecate’s plan will unfold soon.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Indicates urgency and time-bound magical manipulation.

◼️ 739. What is the “glory of our art” that Hecate refers to?
a. Their poetry. b. Their spellwork and manipulation. c. Their knowledge of the stars. d. Their singing.
✅ Answer: (b) Their spellwork and manipulation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Show the glory of our art?" refers to magical interference.

◼️ 740. What inner truth is revealed by “security is mortals’ chiefest enemy”?
a. Safety brings comfort. b. Confidence can be dangerous. c. Witches are weak. d. Death is an illusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Confidence can be dangerous.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Overconfidence blinds Macbeth to real threats and consequences.

◼️ 741. Who is Lennox speaking to in this scene?

a. Macbeth. b. Banquo. c. Another Lord. d. Macduff.
✅ Answer: (c) Another Lord.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Enter Lennox and another Lord."

◼️ 742. What tone dominates Lennox’s speech in this scene?
a. Joyful. b. Sarcastic and critical. c. Fearful. d. Hopeful.
✅ Answer: (b) Sarcastic and critical.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lennox ironically praises Macbeth’s actions.

◼️ 743. According to Lennox, who pitied Duncan?
a. Malcolm. b. Donalbain. c. Macbeth. d. Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The gracious Duncan was pitied of Macbeth."

◼️ 744. What is Lennox’s implication in “marry, he was dead”?
a. Duncan died peacefully. b. Duncan was killed soon after being pitied. c. Duncan married someone. d. Duncan faked his death.
✅ Answer: (b) Duncan was killed soon after being pitied.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implies Macbeth’s pity was insincere and ironic.

◼️ 745. Who does Lennox sarcastically suggest killed Banquo?
a. Macbeth. b. Macduff. c. Malcolm. d. Fleance.
✅ Answer: (d) Fleance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Whom, you may say, if’t please you, Fleance kill’d."

◼️ 746. Why is the line “For Fleance fled” significant?
a. It proves his guilt. b. It makes Fleance innocent. c. It supports Macbeth’s justification. d. It is used sarcastically.
✅ Answer: (d) It is used sarcastically.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lennox uses flight as an ironic “proof” of guilt.

◼️ 747. What does Lennox mean by “Men must not walk too late”?
a. It is unsafe at night. b. Walking late is forbidden. c. Banquo’s late walk got him killed. d. Macbeth patrols at night.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo’s late walk got him killed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implies Macbeth’s role in Banquo’s murder.

◼️ 748. What term does Lennox use to describe Malcolm and Donalbain’s alleged crime?
a. Cruel deed. b. Awful truth. c. Damned fact. d. Noble attempt.
✅ Answer: (c) Damned fact.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To kill their gracious father? damned fact!"

◼️ 749. How does Lennox describe the two guards Macbeth killed?
a. Brave warriors. b. Noble soldiers. c. Slaves of drink and thralls of sleep. d. Innocent victims.
✅ Answer: (c) Slaves of drink and thralls of sleep.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exact phrase used by Lennox.

◼️ 750. What is the tone behind “Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too”?
a. Genuine praise. b. Hopeful advice. c. Bitter sarcasm. d. Religious blessing.
✅ Answer: (c) Bitter sarcasm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lennox mocks Macbeth’s killing of the guards.

◼️ 751. Who does Lennox suspect Macbeth would harm if he had them “under his key”?
a. Fleance. b. Banquo. c. Duncan’s sons. d. The English King.
✅ Answer: (c) Duncan’s sons.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Had he Duncan’s sons under his key... they should find what ’twere to kill a father."

◼️ 752. Why does Lennox mention Fleance again at the end of his speculation?
a. To suggest he is safe. b. To imply he’s next in danger. c. To accuse him seriously. d. To praise him.
✅ Answer: (b) To imply he’s next in danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "So should Fleance."

◼️ 753. Why is Macduff in disgrace, according to Lennox?
a. He refused to fight. b. He fled the country. c. He skipped the feast. d. He killed Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) He skipped the feast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "'Cause he fail’d his presence at the tyrant’s feast."

◼️ 754. Where is Malcolm currently living?
a. Norway. b. Ireland. c. England. d. Scotland.
✅ Answer: (c) England.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The son of Duncan... lives in the English court."

◼️ 755. Who receives Malcolm with honour and grace?
a. Northumberland. b. Siward. c. King Edward. d. King James.
✅ Answer: (c) King Edward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Is receiv’d of the most pious Edward with such grace."

◼️ 756. What does Macduff seek in England?
a. Refuge. b. Military help. c. Wealth. d. Revenge for Banquo.
✅ Answer: (b) Military help.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid..."

◼️ 757. Who are the military leaders mentioned by the Lord?
a. Macdonwald and Angus. b. Banquo and Lennox. c. Northumberland and Siward. d. Malcolm and Donalbain.
✅ Answer: (c) Northumberland and Siward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward."

◼️ 758. What does the Lord hope Scotland will regain through this alliance?
a. A new king. b. Trade. c. Food, sleep, and peace. d. Magical powers.
✅ Answer: (c) Food, sleep, and peace.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights."

◼️ 759. What report angers Macbeth?
a. Macduff’s alliance with Banquo. b. Macduff's journey to England. c. Fleance's survival. d. Duncan’s ghost.
✅ Answer: (b) Macduff's journey to England.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "This report hath so exasperate the King."

◼️ 760. What is the King’s likely response to Macduff’s absence?
a. He forgives him. b. He prepares for war. c. He invites him back. d. He sends him treasure.
✅ Answer: (b) He prepares for war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That he prepares for some attempt of war."

◼️ 761. “Slaves of drink and thralls of sleep” contains what literary device?

a. Simile. b. Irony. c. Alliteration and metaphor. d. Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (c) Alliteration and metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Slaves” and “thralls” are metaphoric; repetition of ‘s’ is alliterative.

◼️ 762. “Damned fact” is best classified as:
a. Euphemism. b. Symbol. c. Exclamation. d. Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Exclamation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It's an emotional outburst reflecting disbelief or sarcasm.

◼️ 763. “Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights” is an example of:
a. Metaphor. b. Hyperbole. c. Parallelism and imagery. d. Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Parallelism and imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition structure and vivid sensory contrast.

◼️ 764. The phrase “bloody knives” symbolises:
a. Macbeth’s feasts. b. Violent murders and betrayal. c. Scottish loyalty. d. Self-defence.
✅ Answer: (b) Violent murders and betrayal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives."

◼️ 765. “Cloudy messenger” refers to:
a. A literal cloud. b. A spy. c. A darkly-spirited servant. d. A gloomy envoy.
✅ Answer: (d) A gloomy envoy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Cloudy” here means sullen or dark in mood, not weather.

◼️ 766. What is the inner meaning of “marry, he was dead”?

a. Macbeth’s pity is fake. b. Duncan is alive. c. Duncan was not important. d. Macbeth was shocked.
✅ Answer: (a) Macbeth’s pity is fake.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sarcasm undercuts Macbeth’s sincerity.

◼️ 767. What does “Sir, not I” imply in context?
a. Macbeth accepted the message. b. Macduff refused Macbeth’s summons. c. Banquo resigned. d. Lennox was joking.
✅ Answer: (b) Macduff refused Macbeth’s summons.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "With an absolute ‘Sir, not I,’ the cloudy messenger turns..."

◼️ 768. Lennox’s wish for “Some holy angel” reveals:
a. His disbelief in England. b. His desire for divine intervention. c. His loyalty to Macbeth. d. His madness.
✅ Answer: (b) His desire for divine intervention.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Some holy angel fly to the court of England."

◼️ 769. What is meant by “hand accurs’d”?
a. Banquo’s spirit. b. Macbeth’s rule. c. Malcolm’s lineage. d. The messenger’s hand.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth’s rule.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "This our suffering country under a hand accurs’d."

◼️ 770. What is the Lord’s attitude toward Macduff’s mission?
a. Hostile. b. Prayerful and supportive. c. Confused. d. Resentful.
✅ Answer: (b) Prayerful and supportive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I’ll send my prayers with him."

◼️ 771. How many times does the "brinded cat" mew, according to the First Witch?

a. Once. b. Thrice. c. Twice. d. Four times.
✅ Answer: (b) Thrice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.”

◼️ 772. What animal does the Second Witch mention after the cat?
a. Owl. b. Bat. c. Hedge-pig. d. Frog.
✅ Answer: (c) Hedge-pig.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whin’d.”

◼️ 773. What signals the witches that it is time to begin their ritual?
a. A raven’s call. b. Hecate’s arrival. c. Harpier's cry. d. A thunderclap.
✅ Answer: (c) Harpier’s cry.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Harpier cries:—’Tis time, ’tis time.”

◼️ 774. What ingredient does the First Witch throw into the cauldron first?
a. Eye of newt. b. Toad. c. Scale of dragon. d. Wool of bat.
✅ Answer: (b) Toad.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Toad, that under cold stone… boil thou first i’ th’ charmed pot!”

◼️ 775. Which phrase is chanted by all witches repeatedly?
a. “Fire, fire, burn and boil.” b. “Round and round we go.” c. “Double, double, toil and trouble.” d. “Black spirits come again.”
✅ Answer: (c) Double, double, toil and trouble.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The witches chant this refrain after each set of ingredients.

◼️ 776. What creature’s body part is listed among the ingredients by the Second Witch?
a. Cow’s heart. b. Frog’s toe. c. Snake’s eye. d. Pig’s tail.
✅ Answer: (b) Frog’s toe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Eye of newt, and toe of frog.”

◼️ 777. What part of the bat is used in the potion?
a. Heart. b. Skin. c. Wool. d. Wing.
✅ Answer: (c) Wool.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Wool of bat.”

◼️ 778. Which of these is not included in the witches' ingredients?
a. Blind-worm’s sting. b. Scale of dragon. c. Feather of falcon. d. Tooth of wolf.
✅ Answer: (c) Feather of falcon.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Not mentioned in the list; others are.

◼️ 779. What is meant by “hell-broth”?
a. A demonic potion. b. A soup of fire. c. A witch’s dinner. d. A snake poison.
✅ Answer: (a) A demonic potion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”

◼️ 780. What part of the shark is used?
a. Teeth. b. Skin. c. Maw and gulf. d. Eyes.
✅ Answer: (c) Maw and gulf.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Maw and gulf of the ravin’d salt-sea shark.”

◼️ 781. What poisonous plant is dug in the dark for the cauldron?
a. Mandrake. b. Hemlock. c. Nightshade. d. Ivy.
✅ Answer: (b) Hemlock.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Root of hemlock digg’d i’ th’ dark.”

◼️ 782. What does the witches’ brew include from a “birth-strangled babe”?
a. Blood. b. Heart. c. Finger. d. Hair.
✅ Answer: (c) Finger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Finger of birth-strangled babe.”

◼️ 783. What animal’s organ is added at the end of the Third Witch’s list?
a. Dragon’s tail. b. Tiger’s chaudron. c. Snake’s liver. d. Frog’s tongue.
✅ Answer: (b) Tiger’s chaudron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron.”

◼️ 784. What blood do the witches use to cool the potion?
a. Wolf. b. Goat. c. Baboon. d. Serpent.
✅ Answer: (c) Baboon.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Cool it with a baboon’s blood.”

◼️ 785. Who enters to praise the witches’ effort?
a. Macbeth. b. Macduff. c. Hecate. d. Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Hecate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Enter Hecate. O, well done! I commend your pains.”

◼️ 786. What magical group does Hecate mention the witches should act like?
a. Demons. b. Vampires. c. Elves and fairies. d. Ghosts.
✅ Answer: (c) Elves and fairies.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Like elves and fairies in a ring.”

◼️ 787. What musical element is included after Hecate exits?
a. A ghostly drumbeat. b. A trumpet blast. c. A song titled “Black Spirits.” d. A thunderclap.
✅ Answer: (c) A song titled “Black Spirits.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Music and a song: ‘Black Spirits,’ &c.]”

◼️ 788. What ominous feeling does the Second Witch express before Macbeth arrives?
a. “The air is cold.” b. “My toes are trembling.” c. “By the pricking of my thumbs.” d. “The owl hoots.”
✅ Answer: (c) By the pricking of my thumbs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

◼️ 789. How does Macbeth address the witches upon entering?
a. “Good ladies of the dark.” b. “You spirits of evil.” c. “Secret, black, and midnight hags.” d. “Wicked conjurers.”
✅ Answer: (c) Secret, black, and midnight hags.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”

◼️ 790. What do the witches call their activity when Macbeth asks what they’re doing?
a. A brew of prophecy. b. A chant of fate. c. A deed without a name. d. A deadly design.
✅ Answer: (c) A deed without a name.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ALL: A deed without a name.”

◼️ 791. “Double, double, toil and trouble” uses which literary device?

a. Paradox. b. Repetition and rhyme. c. Simile. d. Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Repetition and rhyme.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase is rhythmically repeated with rhyming “trouble/bubble.”

◼️ 792. “Hell-broth boil and bubble” is an example of:
a. Allusion and imagery. b. Alliteration and simile. c. Personification. d. Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (b) Alliteration and simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Like a hell-broth” is a simile; “boil and bubble” is alliteration.

◼️ 793. The phrase “pricking of my thumbs” symbolises:
a. Magic wand. b. Inner disturbance or instinct. c. Physical pain. d. A secret vow.
✅ Answer: (b) Inner disturbance or instinct.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A folkloric signal of approaching evil.

◼️ 794. “Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse” evokes which symbolic mood?
a. Hope. b. Love. c. Ominous darkness. d. Victory.
✅ Answer: (c) Ominous darkness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Moon’s eclipse often suggests unnatural events.

◼️ 795. The use of exotic parts like “Tartar’s lips” and “Nose of Turk” shows:
a. Imperial flattery. b. Shakespeare’s inclusion of global fear. c. Scientific inquiry. d. Religious tolerance.
✅ Answer: (b) Shakespeare’s inclusion of global fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: These parts reflect fear of the “other” and exoticism.

◼️ 796. What is the deeper meaning behind “A deed without a name”?

a. A mystery spell. b. Evil so great it defies language. c. Forgotten ritual. d. Lost ancient knowledge.
✅ Answer: (b) Evil so great it defies language.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase implies a nameless, unspeakable act.

◼️ 797. “Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble” reflects what theme?
a. Regeneration. b. Supernatural chaos. c. Domestic work. d. Peace and order.
✅ Answer: (b) Supernatural chaos.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Reflects the destructive brewing of dark forces.

◼️ 798. What is Macbeth's emotional state in “I conjure you… answer me”?
a. Hesitant. b. Arrogant and desperate. c. Regretful. d. Distracted.
✅ Answer: (b) Arrogant and desperate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He is forceful and defiant in his demand for prophecy.

◼️ 799. The imagery of “Though castles topple on their warders’ heads” suggests:
a. Peace and silence. b. The destruction of order and stability. c. Kingship. d. Pride.
✅ Answer: (b) The destruction of order and stability.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Toppling castles represent political and societal collapse.

◼️ 800. What is meant by “Even till destruction sicken”?
a. Evil will die. b. Destruction becomes unbearable. c. Macbeth will surrender. d. The witches will die.
✅ Answer: (b) Destruction becomes unbearable.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth demands answers even if it leads to catastrophic ruin.

◼️ 801. Who asks Macbeth whether he wants to hear from their mouths or from their masters?

a. Second Witch. b. Third Witch. c. First Witch. d. Hecate.
✅ Answer: (c) First Witch.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Say, if thou’dst rather hear it from our mouths, Or from our masters?”

◼️ 802. What does Macbeth reply when asked whether he wants to see their masters?
a. “No, tell me yourselves.” b. “Call ’em, let me see ’em.” c. “Let them speak not appear.” d. “I fear their power.”
✅ Answer: (b) Call ’em, let me see ’em.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. Call ’em, let me see ’em.”

◼️ 803. What ingredient is poured to summon the first apparition?
a. Baboon’s blood. b. Eye of newt. c. Sow’s blood. d. Tiger’s chaudron.
✅ Answer: (c) Sow’s blood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Pour in sow’s blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow…”

◼️ 804. What rises with thunder after the incantation “Come, high or low”?
a. Apparition of a ghost. b. Armed Head. c. Bloody dagger. d. Child on horseback.
✅ Answer: (b) Armed Head.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Thunder. An Apparition of an armed Head rises.]”

◼️ 805. What is Macbeth told about speaking to the first apparition?
a. He may ask freely. b. He should remain silent. c. He must bow. d. He must close his eyes.
✅ Answer: (b) He should remain silent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hear his speech, but say thou naught.”

◼️ 806. What warning does the first apparition give Macbeth?
a. Beware Banquo. b. Beware Lennox. c. Beware Macduff. d. Beware Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (c) Beware Macduff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife.”

◼️ 807. How does Macbeth react to the first warning?
a. He is angry. b. He thanks it. c. He laughs. d. He prays.
✅ Answer: (b) He thanks it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks.”

◼️ 808. Why does Macbeth ask for “one word more”?
a. He is uncertain of the vision. b. He wants to speak to Hecate. c. He seeks more clarity. d. He wants to see Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) He seeks more clarity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But one word more.”

◼️ 809. What does the First Witch say about the first apparition’s behavior?
a. “He is waiting.” b. “He will not be commanded.” c. “He desires to speak.” d. “He shall obey.”
✅ Answer: (b) He will not be commanded.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He will not be commanded.”

◼️ 810. What form does the second apparition take?
a. A crowned child. b. A bleeding warrior. c. A bloody child. d. A headless king.
✅ Answer: (c) A bloody child.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[Thunder. An Apparition of a bloody Child rises.]”

◼️ 811. How does the second apparition greet Macbeth?
a. “Hail, Macbeth.” b. “Macbeth, beware.” c. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!” d. “King Macbeth!”
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “APPARITION. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!”

◼️ 812. What is Macbeth’s humorous comment to the second apparition?
a. “I fear thy blood.” b. “I lack two ears.” c. “Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.” d. “I heed thee.”
✅ Answer: (c) Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MACBETH. Had I three ears, I’d hear thee.”

◼️ 813. What is the prophecy given by the second apparition?
a. No ghost shall slay Macbeth. b. No one in Scotland shall harm him. c. No child shall threaten him. d. None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (d) None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

◼️ 814. How does Macbeth interpret the second prophecy?
a. He mocks it. b. He is confused. c. He feels invincible. d. He warns Macduff.
✅ Answer: (c) He feels invincible.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?”

◼️ 815. Despite the prophecy, what action does Macbeth decide on?
a. Spare Macduff. b. Pray for guidance. c. Kill Macduff anyway. d. Run away.
✅ Answer: (c) Kill Macduff anyway.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou shalt not live.”

◼️ 816. What does Macbeth mean by “take a bond of fate”?
a. Seek friendship with witches. b. Create a legal agreement. c. Ensure destiny by force. d. Undo prophecy.
✅ Answer: (c) Ensure destiny by force.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live.”

◼️ 817. What image does the third apparition present?
a. A lion. b. A ghost. c. A child crowned with a tree in hand. d. A knight.
✅ Answer: (c) A child crowned with a tree in hand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[An Apparition of a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand, rises.]”

◼️ 818. What does the third apparition tell Macbeth about his downfall?
a. He shall die at sea. b. He will fall to Banquo. c. He shall fall when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane. d. He will lose sleep.
✅ Answer: (c) He shall fall when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come.”

◼️ 819. What is Macbeth’s reaction to the third prophecy?
a. Calm and acceptance. b. Bewildered silence. c. Confidence and dismissal of danger. d. Anger and doubt.
✅ Answer: (c) Confidence and dismissal of danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That will never be… Sweet bodements, good!”

◼️ 820. What final question does Macbeth ask the witches after the three apparitions?
a. “Shall I die tonight?” b. “Shall I win the war?” c. “Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?” d. “Will Macduff return?”
✅ Answer: (c) Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shall Banquo’s issue ever Reign in this kingdom?”

◼️ 821. What does the “armed head” symbolize?

a. Macbeth’s paranoia. b. Macduff and war. c. Banquo’s ghost. d. Lady Macbeth’s guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Macduff and war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Symbolically tied to the warning “Beware Macduff.”

◼️ 822. The “bloody child” is a symbolic image of:
a. Macbeth’s son. b. Murdered children. c. Macduff’s unnatural birth. d. Malcolm’s innocence.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff’s unnatural birth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Foreshadows Macduff’s Caesarean birth.

◼️ 823. The crowned child with a tree represents:
a. Macbeth’s child. b. Nature. c. Malcolm and Birnam Wood. d. A tree god.
✅ Answer: (c) Malcolm and Birnam Wood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Symbol of Malcolm approaching with camouflaged soldiers.

◼️ 824. “Had I three ears, I’d hear thee” is an example of:
a. Hyperbole. b. Paradox. c. Personification. d. Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth exaggerates to express attentiveness.

◼️ 825. “Take a bond of fate” employs which device?
a. Allegory. b. Legal metaphor. c. Simile. d. Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Legal metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to a legal contract, metaphorically securing destiny.

◼️ 826. What does “He will not be commanded” reveal about the apparitions?

a. They are mortal. b. They are under Hecate’s rule. c. They operate independently of Macbeth’s will. d. They obey Macbeth secretly.
✅ Answer: (c) They operate independently of Macbeth’s will.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The spirits speak but won’t be controlled.

◼️ 827. “Sleep in spite of thunder” implies Macbeth wants:
a. Eternal rest. b. Calm despite omens. c. Hecate’s favor. d. Magical powers.
✅ Answer: (b) Calm despite omens.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And sleep in spite of thunder.” = peace despite supernatural chaos.

◼️ 828. Macbeth’s “Sweet bodements, good!” shows his:
a. Terror. b. Mistrust. c. Optimism from false hope. d. Joy for Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Optimism from false hope.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His delight at the prophecy blinds him to its trickery.

◼️ 829. “Impress the forest” metaphorically suggests:
a. Nature obeys kings. b. Magic is real. c. Trees can march. d. Trees are like soldiers.
✅ Answer: (d) Trees are like soldiers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Who can impress the forest?” uses military imagery.

◼️ 830. Macbeth’s eagerness to know Banquo’s fate reflects:
a. Regret. b. Jealousy and obsession with lineage. c. Forgiveness. d. Grief.
✅ Answer: (b) Jealousy and obsession with lineage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Tell me… shall Banquo’s issue ever reign…” shows his deep insecurity.

◼️ 831. What demand does Macbeth make of the witches before the vision of kings appears?

(a) To speak again. (b) To vanish. (c) To show him more. (d) To bless him.
✅ Answer: (c) To show him more
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I will be satisfied: deny me this, And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.”

◼️ 832. What follows Macbeth’s demand for further revelations?
(a) A vision of Banquo’s ghost. (b) A cauldron boiling over. (c) The witches chanting. (d) A show of kings.
✅ Answer: (d) A show of kings
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A show of eight kings appear, and pass over in order, the last with a glass in his hand; Banquo following.”

◼️ 833. How does Macbeth react to the appearance of the first king in the vision?
(a) With joy. (b) With confusion. (c) With disgust. (d) With fear.
✅ Answer: (d) With fear
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs.”

◼️ 834. What does the glass held by the eighth king represent?
(a) Macbeth’s downfall. (b) A future kingdom. (c) An endless line of kings. (d) A cursed legacy.
✅ Answer: (c) An endless line of kings
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Which shows me many more.”

◼️ 835. How does Macbeth describe the succession of kings?
(a) As hopeful. (b) As eternal. (c) As ending soon. (d) As symbolic.
✅ Answer: (b) As eternal
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, will the line stretch out to th’ crack of doom?”

◼️ 836. Who appears at the end of the vision holding a mirror?
(a) Macbeth. (b) Banquo. (c) The first king. (d) The eighth king.
✅ Answer: (d) The eighth king
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The last with a glass in his hand.”

◼️ 837. Who follows the eight kings in the vision?
(a) Macduff. (b) Lennox. (c) Banquo. (d) A witch.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Banquo following.”

◼️ 838. What visible trait disturbs Macbeth most about the kings in the vision?
(a) Their silence. (b) Their weapons. (c) Their crowns. (d) Their laughter.
✅ Answer: (c) Their crowns
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs.”

◼️ 839. What does Macbeth accuse the witches of showing him?
(a) Treason. (b) A horror show. (c) The truth. (d) His death.
✅ Answer: (b) A horror show
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Horrible sight! Now I see ’tis true.”

◼️ 840. What is Banquo doing at the end of the vision?
(a) Laughing at Macbeth. (b) Pointing at the kings. (c) Holding a crown. (d) Standing silent.
✅ Answer: (b) Pointing at the kings
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And points at them for his.”

◼️ 841. What musical event follows the witches’ dance?
(a) Hautboys. (b) A horn. (c) Trumpets. (d) Drumbeat.
✅ Answer: (a) Hautboys
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What noise is this? [Hautboys.]”

◼️ 842. What curse does Macbeth pronounce after the witches vanish?
(a) On England. (b) On Macduff. (c) On Banquo. (d) On the hour.
✅ Answer: (d) On the hour
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar!”

◼️ 843. Who enters after the witches vanish?
(a) Banquo. (b) Macduff. (c) Lennox. (d) Seyton.
✅ Answer: (c) Lennox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Enter Lennox.”

◼️ 844. What question does Macbeth ask Lennox immediately?
(a) Have you seen Banquo? (b) Have you heard any prophecy? (c) Have you seen the Weird Sisters? (d) Is Macduff back?
✅ Answer: (c) Have you seen the Weird Sisters?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Saw you the Weird Sisters?”

◼️ 845. What is Lennox’s response to Macbeth’s inquiry about the witches?
(a) Yes, they’re gone. (b) No, my lord. (c) I don’t recall. (d) They passed me by.
✅ Answer: (b) No, my lord
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, my lord.”

◼️ 846. What news does Lennox bring Macbeth?
(a) Macduff has returned. (b) Malcolm has fled. (c) Macduff has fled to England. (d) Banquo’s son is dead.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff has fled to England
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Macduff is fled to England.”

◼️ 847. How does Macbeth plan to respond to Macduff’s flight?
(a) Seek him out. (b) Fortify Dunsinane. (c) Murder his family. (d) Send spies to England.
✅ Answer: (c) Murder his family
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The castle of Macduff I will surprise... His wife, his babes...”

◼️ 848. What does Macbeth resolve about thought and action?
(a) He’ll never act without advice. (b) He will delay action till assurance. (c) Thought must lead quickly to deed. (d) All plans will be secret.
✅ Answer: (c) Thought must lead quickly to deed
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.”

◼️ 849. What does Macbeth say about boasting?
(a) It is noble. (b) It leads to ruin. (c) He will boast no more. (d) It suits a king.
✅ Answer: (c) He will boast no more
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No boasting like a fool.”

◼️ 850. What command does Macbeth give at the end of the scene?
(a) Bring me my horse. (b) Let no one speak. (c) Bring me where they are. (d) Lock the castle.
✅ Answer: (c) Bring me where they are
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come, bring me where they are.”

◼️ 851. What is the symbolic meaning of the “glass” held by the eighth king?

(a) Reflection of Macbeth’s soul. (b) A distorted future. (c) Infinite royal lineage. (d) Illusion of immortality.
✅ Answer: (c) Infinite royal lineage
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Which shows me many more.”

◼️ 852. “Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs” is an example of —
(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The crown metaphorically burns Macbeth’s eyes with its implication of Banquo’s line of kings.

◼️ 853. “Come like shadows, so depart!” – What literary device is used here?
(a) Irony. (b) Symbolism. (c) Simile. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (c) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come like shadows” compares the visions to shadows using “like.”

◼️ 854. What does the image of “blood-bolter’d Banquo” symbolize?
(a) Revenge. (b) Betrayal. (c) Guilt and fate. (d) Lost innocence.
✅ Answer: (c) Guilt and fate
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles upon me.”

◼️ 855. What does the phrase “Stand aye accursed in the calendar” imply?
(a) A date of joy. (b) A day to be blessed. (c) A day of eternal curse. (d) A historical record.
✅ Answer: (c) A day of eternal curse
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar!”

◼️ 856. What does “the firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand” suggest?

(a) Macbeth’s hesitation. (b) Thoughtful actions. (c) Impulsive action. (d) Symbol of regret.
✅ Answer: (c) Impulsive action
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “From this moment... thought and done.”

◼️ 857. What is meant by “No boasting like a fool”?
(a) Boasting is brave. (b) He will boast only in public. (c) He will act, not talk. (d) He feels foolish.
✅ Answer: (c) He will act, not talk
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No boasting like a fool; This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool.”

◼️ 858. What inner transformation does Macbeth show in this scene?
(a) From superstition to science. (b) From guilt to conscience. (c) From hesitancy to violent resolve. (d) From ambition to fear.
✅ Answer: (c) From hesitancy to violent resolve
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Be it thought and done.”

◼️ 859. What is Macbeth’s emotion at Banquo’s smiling vision?
(a) Joy. (b) Disgust. (c) Despair. (d) Indifference.
✅ Answer: (c) Despair
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now I see ’tis true... blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles.”

◼️ 860. How does Macbeth view time in his final lines of the scene?
(a) As eternal. (b) As a barrier. (c) As something to control. (d) As a passive enemy.
✅ Answer: (d) As a passive enemy
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits.”

◼️ 861. What is Lady Macduff’s first reaction to Macduff's flight?

(a) She is confused. (b) She is supportive. (c) She is sorrowful. (d) She is angry and questioning.
✅ Answer: (d) She is angry and questioning
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What had he done, to make him fly the land?”

◼️ 862. How does Ross initially advise Lady Macduff?
(a) To leave Scotland. (b) To forgive Macduff. (c) To have patience. (d) To trust the witches.
✅ Answer: (c) To have patience
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You must have patience, madam.”

◼️ 863. According to Lady Macduff, what makes people traitors even if they do nothing wrong?
(a) Their silence. (b) Their ambition. (c) Their fears. (d) Their dreams.
✅ Answer: (c) Their fears
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”

◼️ 864. What emotion does Lady Macduff think motivated her husband’s flight?
(a) Pride. (b) Guilt. (c) Ambition. (d) Fear.
✅ Answer: (d) Fear
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “All is the fear, and nothing is the love.”

◼️ 865. What bird does Lady Macduff refer to in describing maternal defense?
(a) Dove. (b) Sparrow. (c) Wren. (d) Lark.
✅ Answer: (c) Wren
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For the poor wren... will fight her young ones... against the owl.”

◼️ 866. Lady Macduff says Macduff lacks which quality?
(a) Courage. (b) Judgement. (c) Honour. (d) Natural touch.
✅ Answer: (d) Natural touch
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He wants the natural touch.”

◼️ 867. According to Lady Macduff, Macduff's action goes against —
(a) His love for Scotland. (b) Divine will. (c) All reason. (d) His military oath.
✅ Answer: (c) All reason
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Where the flight so runs against all reason.”

◼️ 868. How does Ross defend Macduff’s action?
(a) He says Macduff is hiding. (b) He says Macduff is planning a rebellion. (c) He says Macduff is wise and noble. (d) He says Macduff was forced to flee.
✅ Answer: (c) He says Macduff is wise and noble
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows the fits o’ th’ season.”

◼️ 869. According to Ross, what do cruel times make us?
(a) Cowards. (b) Traitors. (c) Unnatural. (d) Unaware of ourselves.
✅ Answer: (d) Unaware of ourselves
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When we are traitors, and do not know ourselves.”

◼️ 870. What does Ross say about rumour and fear?
(a) They help us decide. (b) They guide the wise. (c) We fear what we don’t know. (d) They are spread by traitors.
✅ Answer: (c) We fear what we don’t know
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When we hold rumour from what we fear, yet know not what we fear.”

◼️ 871. Ross compares their situation to —
(a) A battlefield. (b) A sinking ship. (c) A wild sea. (d) A dying forest.
✅ Answer: (c) A wild sea
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But float upon a wild and violent sea.”

◼️ 872. What is Ross’s hopeful note before exiting?
(a) Macbeth will fall. (b) Macduff will return. (c) Things at the worst will cease. (d) Malcolm has a plan.
✅ Answer: (c) Things at the worst will cease.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward.”

◼️ 873. What does Lady Macduff say about her son after Ross leaves?
(a) He resembles Macduff. (b) He will become a hero. (c) He is fathered, but fatherless. (d) He must flee now.
✅ Answer: (c) He is fathered, but fatherless
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless.”

◼️ 874. Why does Ross leave abruptly?
(a) He is summoned. (b) He feels emotional and ashamed. (c) He is angry. (d) He is threatened.
✅ Answer: (b) He feels emotional and ashamed
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am so much a fool, should I stay longer, it would be my disgrace and your discomfort.”

◼️ 875. What does Lady Macduff tell her son about his father?
(a) He is dead. (b) He will return. (c) He is fighting. (d) He is in hiding.
✅ Answer: (a) He is dead
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sirrah, your father’s dead.”

◼️ 876. How does the son respond to his mother’s claim about Macduff’s death?
(a) He believes her. (b) He gets angry. (c) He makes a joke. (d) He denies it.
✅ Answer: (d) He denies it
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My father is not dead, for all your saying.”

◼️ 877. How does the son say he will live without his father?
(a) By fleeing. (b) Like the nobles. (c) As birds do. (d) Like a soldier.
✅ Answer: (c) As birds do
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As birds do, mother.”

◼️ 878. What food source does Lady Macduff mention in response to her son's bird comparison?
(a) Seeds and grain. (b) Worms and flies. (c) Bread and milk. (d) Leaves and berries.
✅ Answer: (b) Worms and flies
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, with worms and flies?”

◼️ 879. What is the son's clever reply to the food remark?
(a) He says he will steal food. (b) He says he will get whatever he can. (c) He says birds don’t need food. (d) He says he’ll fast.
✅ Answer: (b) He says he will get whatever he can
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With what I get, I mean; and so do they.”

◼️ 880. Why does the son say birds are not set for?
(a) Because they fly away. (b) Because they are not valuable. (c) Because they are poor. (d) Because they are smart.
✅ Answer: (c) Because they are poor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Poor birds they are not set for.”

◼️ 881. “The poor wren... will fight... against the owl” is an example of —

(a) Allusion. (b) Simile. (c) Irony. (d) Symbolism.
✅ Answer: (d) Symbolism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The wren symbolizes maternal instinct and courage.

◼️ 882. “Float upon a wild and violent sea” uses which figure of speech?
(a) Personification. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It compares their uncertain state to drifting in a violent sea.

◼️ 883. “When we hold rumour from what we fear” suggests —
(a) A simile. (b) A paradox. (c) A metaphor. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (b) A paradox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It expresses contradiction between knowing and fearing.

◼️ 884. “Things at the worst will cease” expresses —
(a) Sarcasm. (b) Symbolism. (c) Irony. (d) Optimism.
✅ Answer: (d) Optimism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ross expresses hope in the face of despair.

◼️ 885. “My pretty cousin” is an example of —
(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Endearment. (d) Metonymy.
✅ Answer: (c) Endearment
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ross uses a gentle term for Lady Macduff’s child.

◼️ 886. What does “Father’d he is, and yet he’s fatherless” suggest?

(a) A confusion of parentage. (b) Irony and abandonment. (c) Grief for a dead father. (d) Hope that Macduff will return.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony and abandonment
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It highlights that though Macduff fathered the boy, his absence makes him ‘fatherless’.

◼️ 887. What is implied by “He wants the natural touch”?
(a) He lacks kindness. (b) He is not a real father. (c) He is unloving and unprotective. (d) He is harsh with his wife.
✅ Answer: (c) He is unloving and unprotective
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He wants the natural touch” critiques his failure to protect his family.

◼️ 888. What deeper idea is behind “Our fears do make us traitors”?
(a) Fear creates cowardice. (b) Fear leads to false accusations. (c) Fear leads to survival. (d) Fear can cause betrayal even without guilt.
✅ Answer: (d) Fear can cause betrayal even without guilt
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”

◼️ 889. Why does Lady Macduff reference “net,” “lime,” and “pitfall”?
(a) To warn her son. (b) To express birds’ fear. (c) To suggest her son’s innocence. (d) To imply vulnerability.
✅ Answer: (d) To imply vulnerability
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Poor bird! thou’dst never fear the net nor lime, the pit-fall nor the gin.”

◼️ 890. What is the boy’s reply “My father is not dead, for all your saying” best interpreted as?
(a) Denial and childlike innocence. (b) Hope. (c) Suspicion of his mother. (d) Humor.
✅ Answer: (a) Denial and childlike innocence
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The child trusts his instincts over his mother’s words.

◼️ 891. What is Lady Macduff’s reply when her son asks about a father?

(a) That he is alive. (b) That she will get another. (c) That he was betrayed. (d) That he abandoned them.
✅ Answer: (b) That she will get another
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.”

◼️ 892. What witty response does the son give to Lady Macduff’s remark about buying husbands?
(a) You can’t replace a good one. (b) You’ll never find a better one. (c) You’ll buy ’em to sell again. (d) That’s not possible.
✅ Answer: (c) You’ll buy ’em to sell again
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then you’ll buy ’em to sell again.”

◼️ 893. How does Lady Macduff describe her son’s speech?
(a) Silly. (b) Bitter. (c) Intelligent. (d) Disrespectful.
✅ Answer: (c) Intelligent
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou speak’st with all thy wit.”

◼️ 894. What does the son ask after Lady Macduff calls his father a traitor?
(a) Was he guilty? (b) Will he come back? (c) What is a traitor? (d) Why did he lie?
✅ Answer: (c) What is a traitor?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Was my father a traitor, mother?” / “What is a traitor?”

◼️ 895. What definition does Lady Macduff give for a traitor?
(a) One who breaks promises. (b) One who flees. (c) One who kills. (d) One who swears and lies.
✅ Answer: (d) One who swears and lies
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, one that swears and lies.”

◼️ 896. What conclusion does the boy reach about liars and swearers?
(a) They are clever. (b) They are dangerous. (c) They are fools. (d) They are hunted.
✅ Answer: (c) They are fools
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then the liars and swearers are fools.”

◼️ 897. What reason does the son give for calling the liars and swearers fools?
(a) Because they fear honesty. (b) Because they can't unite. (c) Because they are always caught. (d) Because they are enough to beat the honest men.
✅ Answer: (d) Because they are enough to beat the honest men
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.”

◼️ 898. What affectionate term does Lady Macduff use for her son?
(a) My child. (b) Dear boy. (c) Poor monkey. (d) Sweet bird.
✅ Answer: (c) Poor monkey
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now, God help thee, poor monkey!”

◼️ 899. What does the son say would prove Macduff is dead?
(a) His mother’s tears. (b) News from a soldier. (c) A message from Macbeth. (d) A funeral.
✅ Answer: (a) His mother’s tears
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If he were dead, you’ld weep for him.”

◼️ 900. How does the boy suggest he will get a new father?
(a) If his mother stops crying. (b) If his mother marries. (c) If his mother doesn't weep, it shows she has moved on. (d) If Macduff never returns.
✅ Answer: (c) If his mother doesn't weep, it shows she has moved on
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.”

◼️ 901. What does Lady Macduff call her son at the end of their exchange?
(a) Little fool. (b) Young lamb. (c) Poor prattler. (d) Wise child.
✅ Answer: (c) Poor prattler
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Poor prattler, how thou talk’st!”

◼️ 902. What does the Messenger warn Lady Macduff about?
(a) Imminent war. (b) Macduff’s betrayal. (c) Nearby danger. (d) Banquo’s ghost.
✅ Answer: (c) Nearby danger
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I doubt some danger does approach you nearly.”

◼️ 903. What reason does the Messenger give for his warning?
(a) He is loyal to Macduff. (b) He fears Macbeth. (c) He knows the killers. (d) He fears appearing savage, but worse is coming.
✅ Answer: (d) He fears appearing savage, but worse is coming
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage; to do worse to you were fell cruelty.”

◼️ 904. What is Lady Macduff’s moral protest after the Messenger’s warning?
(a) She has done no harm. (b) She is innocent and protected. (c) She trusts the king. (d) She has hidden well.
✅ Answer: (a) She has done no harm
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have done no harm.”

◼️ 905. What does Lady Macduff realize about the moral order of the world?
(a) Evil is always punished. (b) Doing good is dangerous. (c) Women are weak. (d) There is no escape.
✅ Answer: (b) Doing good is dangerous
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”

◼️ 906. What is Lady Macduff’s comment on the contradiction between doing good and being harmed?
(a) It is a paradox. (b) It is tragic. (c) It is justice. (d) It is womanly.
✅ Answer: (d) It is womanly
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why then, alas, do I put up that womanly defence, to say I have done no harm?”

◼️ 907. How does Lady Macduff respond to the First Murderer’s question?
(a) With defiance. (b) With fear. (c) With a lie. (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (a) With defiance
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I hope, in no place so unsanctified where such as thou mayst find him.”

◼️ 908. What insult does the son use for the murderer?
(a) Villain. (b) Hell-hound. (c) Shag-ear’d villain. (d) Devil's dog.
✅ Answer: (c) Shag-ear’d villain
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou liest, thou shag-ear’d villain!”

◼️ 909. What metaphor does the murderer use for the son?
(a) Chick. (b) Spawn. (c) Whelp. (d) Egg.
✅ Answer: (d) Egg
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, you egg!”

◼️ 910. What are the son’s final words?
(a) Help me, mother! (b) Father will avenge me. (c) They’ve killed me. (d) He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you!
✅ Answer: (d) He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you!”

◼️ 911. The term “poor monkey” is an example of —

(a) Satire. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Endearment.
✅ Answer: (d) Endearment
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macduff affectionately calls her son “poor monkey”.

◼️ 912. The boy’s line about liars being enough to hang the honest men is an example of —
(a) Paradox. (b) Sarcasm. (c) Symbolism. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.”

◼️ 913. “To do harm is often laudable; to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly” expresses —
(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Irony. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (c) Irony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Doing evil is praised, doing good is punished—an ironic reversal.

◼️ 914. The son being called an “egg” before being stabbed suggests —
(a) Simplicity. (b) Fragility and innocence. (c) Hunger. (d) Emptiness.
✅ Answer: (b) Fragility and innocence
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, you egg!” implies vulnerability before he’s stabbed.

◼️ 915. “Poor prattler” implies —
(a) Stupidity. (b) Naïve chatter. (c) Loud defiance. (d) Adult wisdom.
✅ Answer: (b) Naïve chatter
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Poor prattler, how thou talk’st!” shows fondness for innocent speech.

◼️ 916. What is Lady Macduff’s deeper regret in “Why then... do I put up that womanly defence”?

(a) That women must remain passive. (b) That being harmless is no shield. (c) That she trusted Macbeth. (d) That her husband betrayed her.
✅ Answer: (b) That being harmless is no shield
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She realizes innocence offers no protection.

◼️ 917. “I have done no harm” becomes tragic because —
(a) She actually has. (b) She is about to commit harm. (c) Innocence does not guarantee safety. (d) Her husband doesn’t believe it.
✅ Answer: (c) Innocence does not guarantee safety
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macduff’s innocence doesn’t save her.

◼️ 918. The entire mother-son dialogue before the murder is characterized by —
(a) Hostility. (b) Bitterness. (c) Tender wit. (d) Rejection.
✅ Answer: (c) Tender wit
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Their exchange is full of clever, playful affection.

◼️ 919. What irony lies in the son calling the murderer a villain?
(a) He doesn’t understand what villainy means. (b) The murderer pretends to be innocent. (c) The boy is punished for telling the truth. (d) The murderer doesn’t lie.
✅ Answer: (c) The boy is punished for telling the truth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The child is killed for bravely calling out evil.

◼️ 920. What does Lady Macduff’s refusal to flee suggest, on a deeper level?
(a) Foolish pride. (b) Trust in fate. (c) Faith in innocence. (d) Anger at Macduff.
✅ Answer: (c) Faith in innocence
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have done no harm” reflects belief that innocence protects her.

◼️ 921. What does Malcolm suggest they do at the beginning of the scene?

(a) Return to Scotland. (b) Seek revenge immediately. (c) Weep in a desolate place. (d) Hide from Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Weep in a desolate place.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us seek out some desolate shade and there / Weep our sad bosoms empty.”

◼️ 922. What is Macduff’s initial response to Malcolm's suggestion of weeping?
(a) He agrees. (b) He blames Malcolm. (c) He urges for action. (d) He ignores him.
✅ Answer: (c) He urges for action.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us rather / Hold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men, / Bestride our down-fall’n birthdom.”

◼️ 923. According to Macduff, what happens "each new morn" in Scotland?
(a) More celebrations. (b) New crimes. (c) New sufferings. (d) More rain.
✅ Answer: (c) New sufferings.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Each new morn / New widows howl, new orphans cry.”

◼️ 924. What does Malcolm say about what he believes and knows?
(a) He ignores what he knows. (b) He follows blind faith. (c) He mourns what he believes. (d) He believes only what he sees.
✅ Answer: (c) He mourns what he believes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What I believe, I’ll wail; / What know, believe; and what I can redress... I will.”

◼️ 925. What does Malcolm imply when he compares Macduff to a “poor innocent lamb”?
(a) Macduff is foolish. (b) Macduff is brave. (c) Macduff is a sacrifice. (d) Macduff is disloyal.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff is a sacrifice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb / To appease an angry god.”

◼️ 926. Why does Malcolm question Macduff’s loyalty?
(a) Macduff praised Macbeth. (b) Macduff fled too soon. (c) Macduff left his family behind. (d) Macduff threatened Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff left his family behind.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why in that rawness left you wife and child... Without leave-taking?”

◼️ 927. What does Malcolm call Macbeth in this passage?
(a) Tyrant. (b) Hero. (c) Coward. (d) Innocent.
✅ Answer: (a) Tyrant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues.”

◼️ 928. What is Macduff’s reaction to Malcolm’s suspicions?
(a) He denies and leaves. (b) He affirms his innocence. (c) He agrees he was wrong. (d) He confesses treason.
✅ Answer: (b) He affirms his innocence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I would not be the villain that thou think’st.”

◼️ 929. What metaphor does Macduff use to describe tyranny’s hold on Scotland?
(a) A poisoned chalice. (b) A bleeding child. (c) A strong foundation. (d) A storm.
✅ Answer: (c) A strong foundation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure.”

◼️ 930. Why does Macduff say “The title is affeer’d”?
(a) He confirms Macbeth’s legitimacy. (b) He rejects Macbeth’s power. (c) He says the crown is in danger. (d) He accuses Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (a) He confirms Macbeth’s legitimacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The title is affeer’d.”

◼️ 931. What emotion does Malcolm say Scotland feels under Macbeth’s rule?
(a) Joy. (b) Fear. (c) Misery. (d) Indifference.
✅ Answer: (c) Misery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; / It weeps, it bleeds.”

◼️ 932. What aid does Malcolm mention receiving from England?
(a) Blessings. (b) Food supplies. (c) Troops. (d) Gold.
✅ Answer: (c) Troops.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here, from gracious England, have I offer / Of goodly thousands.”

◼️ 933. What does Malcolm suggest about the ruler who comes after Macbeth?
(a) He will be better. (b) He will be worse. (c) He will be a saint. (d) He will be Macduff.
✅ Answer: (b) He will be worse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yet my poor country / Shall have more vices than it had before.”

◼️ 934. What idea does Malcolm repeat about deception?
(a) Truth is dangerous. (b) All lies are punished. (c) Evil may wear the face of grace. (d) Grace is always visible.
✅ Answer: (c) Evil may wear the face of grace.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace.”

◼️ 935. What does Macduff mean by “the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp”?
(a) Macbeth controls all of Scotland. (b) Macbeth’s rule extends to England. (c) He would not trade his honour for Macbeth’s power. (d) He fears the tyrant’s control.
✅ Answer: (c) He would not trade his honour for Macbeth’s power.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I would not be the villain that thou think’st / For the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp.”

◼️ 936. What tone does Malcolm adopt toward Macduff by the end of this exchange?
(a) Hostile. (b) Suspicious. (c) Reassuring. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (c) Reassuring.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Be not offended: / I speak not as in absolute fear of you.”

◼️ 937. What natural imagery is used to describe Scotland’s condition?
(a) Earthquake. (b) Storm. (c) Bleeding wounds. (d) Burning forests.
✅ Answer: (c) Bleeding wounds.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash / Is added to her wounds.”

◼️ 938. What does Malcolm mean by “I shall crave your pardon”?
(a) He is apologizing for not trusting Macduff. (b) He is asking to leave. (c) He is begging for forgiveness from Macbeth. (d) He is making a formal accusation.
✅ Answer: (a) He is apologizing for not trusting Macduff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But I shall crave your pardon.”

◼️ 939. What do Malcolm's statements about “grace” suggest about appearance and reality?
(a) Grace is illusion. (b) Even evil must appear graceful. (c) Grace is repulsive. (d) Grace is unnecessary.
✅ Answer: (b) Even evil must appear graceful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, / Yet grace must still look so.”

◼️ 940. What does Macduff emphasize as the core reason for resisting Macbeth?
(a) His personal loss. (b) His anger at Malcolm. (c) His loyalty to England. (d) His love for tyranny.
✅ Answer: (a) His personal loss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bleed, bleed, poor country!”

◼️ 941. “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues” uses which figure of speech?

(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Whose sole name blisters our tongues” exaggerates the pain caused by Macbeth's mere name.

◼️ 942. What image is evoked by “It weeps, it bleeds”?
(a) A ghost. (b) A weeping widow. (c) A wounded country. (d) A dying soldier.
✅ Answer: (c) A wounded country.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Our country sinks... It weeps, it bleeds” symbolizes Scotland’s suffering.

◼️ 943. The comparison of Macduff to “a poor, innocent lamb” is an example of:
(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb.”

◼️ 944. “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell” is an allusion to:
(a) The Fall of Macbeth. (b) The Fall of Lucifer. (c) Adam and Eve. (d) The Fall of Rome.
✅ Answer: (b) The Fall of Lucifer.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to Lucifer’s fall from grace, indicating how even the virtuous can fall.

◼️ 945. The phrase “each new day a gash / Is added to her wounds” employs:
(a) Metonymy. (b) Personification. (c) Synecdoche. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Scotland is personified as a wounded body.

◼️ 946. “Let us seek out some desolate shade” expresses:

(a) Vengeance. (b) Grief. (c) Celebration. (d) Hope.
✅ Answer: (b) Grief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm suggests they weep their sorrows.

◼️ 947. “Bleed, bleed, poor country” reveals Macduff’s:
(a) Patriotism. (b) Hatred. (c) Revenge. (d) Envy.
✅ Answer: (a) Patriotism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Expresses sorrow and loyalty for suffering Scotland.

◼️ 948. Malcolm’s “grace must still look so” implies:
(a) Grace is indistinguishable from evil. (b) Appearances are deceiving. (c) Grace is visible only to kings. (d) Evil is easily recognized.
✅ Answer: (b) Appearances are deceiving.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace.”

◼️ 949. “The title is affeer’d” reflects Macduff’s view that:
(a) Macbeth has lawful power. (b) Macbeth has lost the crown. (c) Macbeth is faking kingship. (d) Malcolm is king.
✅ Answer: (a) Macbeth has lawful power.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The title is affeer’d" means Macbeth’s claim to the throne is confirmed.

◼️ 950. “I would not be the villain that thou think’st” shows Macduff’s:
(a) Pride. (b) Guilt. (c) Integrity. (d) Revenge.
✅ Answer: (c) Integrity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff values honour above power.

◼️ 951. Who does Malcolm suggest would appear as pure as snow when compared to his own claimed vices?
(a) Macduff. (b) Duncan. (c) Macbeth. (d) Banquo.
✅ Answer: (c) Macbeth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “When they shall be open’d, black Macbeth / Will seem as pure as snow.”

◼️ 952. What metaphor does Malcolm use for the magnitude of his lust?
(a) A raging storm. (b) A cistern. (c) A crown of fire. (d) A serpent.
✅ Answer: (b) A cistern
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The cistern of my lust.”

◼️ 953. According to Malcolm, how would his lust overpower any resistance?
(a) By deception. (b) By persuasion. (c) By overbearing all obstacles. (d) By poisoning minds.
✅ Answer: (c) By overbearing all obstacles
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “All continent impediments would o’erbear / That did oppose my will.”

◼️ 954. How does Macduff initially try to excuse Malcolm’s claimed lust?
(a) By ignoring it. (b) By offering advice. (c) By suggesting it could be concealed. (d) By praising it.
✅ Answer: (c) By suggesting it could be concealed
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You may / Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty, / And yet seem cold.”

◼️ 955. What does Malcolm say he would do to the nobles if he were king?
(a) Reward them. (b) Imprison them. (c) Banish them. (d) Cut them off for their lands.
✅ Answer: (d) Cut them off for their lands
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I should cut off the nobles for their lands.”

◼️ 956. What does Malcolm claim would increase his hunger for more possessions?
(a) Lust. (b) Wealth. (c) More-having. (d) Flattery.
✅ Answer: (c) More-having
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My more-having would be as a sauce / To make me hunger more.”

◼️ 957. Which vice does Macduff say is more deeply rooted than lust?
(a) Ambition. (b) Avarice. (c) Anger. (d) Pride.
✅ Answer: (b) Avarice
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This avarice / Sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root / Than summer-seeming lust.”

◼️ 958. What does Macduff say Scotland has in abundance?
(a) Soldiers. (b) Gold. (c) Foisons. (d) Nobility.
✅ Answer: (c) Foisons
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.”

◼️ 959. According to Malcolm, what king-becoming virtues does he lack?
(a) Only courage and mercy. (b) Justice and wisdom. (c) All kingly graces. (d) Nobility and grace.
✅ Answer: (c) All kingly graces
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But I have none: the king-becoming graces … I have no relish of them.”

◼️ 960. What does Malcolm say he would do to peace and unity if he had power?
(a) Preserve them. (b) Strengthen them. (c) Uproar and confound them. (d) Mock them.
✅ Answer: (c) Uproar and confound them
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Uproar the universal peace, confound / All unity on earth.”

◼️ 961. How does Macduff react after hearing all of Malcolm’s self-confessed vices?
(a) He agrees to support him. (b) He is silent. (c) He mourns for Scotland. (d) He runs away.
✅ Answer: (c) He mourns for Scotland
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “O Scotland, Scotland!”

◼️ 962. Who does Macduff call “a most sainted king”?
(a) Duncan. (b) Banquo. (c) Edward. (d) Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (a) Duncan
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thy royal father / Was a most sainted king.”

◼️ 963. How does Macduff describe the queen who bore Malcolm?
(a) Merciful and quiet. (b) Revered in battle. (c) Devout and prayerful. (d) Harsh but wise.
✅ Answer: (c) Devout and prayerful
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The queen that bore thee, / Oft’ner upon her knees than on her feet.”

◼️ 964. What does Macduff accuse Malcolm of doing to his own royal heritage?
(a) Honouring it. (b) Avenging it. (c) Blaspheming it. (d) Ignoring it.
✅ Answer: (c) Blaspheming it
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And does blaspheme his breed.”

◼️ 965. What does Macduff say has been the cause of the fall of many kings?
(a) Lust. (b) Avarice. (c) Treason. (d) Boundless intemperance.
✅ Answer: (d) Boundless intemperance
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Boundless intemperance … fall of many kings.”

◼️ 966. Which quality does Malcolm say he lacks in addition to all virtues?
(a) Joy. (b) Nobility. (c) Concord. (d) Graces.
✅ Answer: (c) Concord
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.”

◼️ 967. What does Macduff say ends in his breast after Malcolm’s speech?
(a) His love. (b) His fear. (c) His hope. (d) His patience.
✅ Answer: (c) His hope
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thy hope ends here!”

◼️ 968. What does Macduff call Macbeth in his outcry about tyranny?
(a) A fallen hero. (b) A hellish traitor. (c) An untitled tyrant. (d) A king unworthy.
✅ Answer: (c) An untitled tyrant
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d.”

◼️ 969. How does Macduff describe the rule of the supposed worst king?
(a) Glorious. (b) Merciful. (c) Tyrannical. (d) Righteous.
✅ Answer: (c) Tyrannical
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Boundless intemperance in nature is a tyranny.”

◼️ 970. According to Malcolm, what would he do to universal peace?
(a) Maintain it. (b) Restore it. (c) Confound it. (d) Ignore it.
✅ Answer: (c) Confound it
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Confound / All unity on earth.”

◼️ 971. “The cistern of my lust” is an example of which figure of speech?
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The “cistern” metaphorically represents an unfillable container of lust.

◼️ 972. What is symbolized by “the sweet milk of concord”?
(a) Nationalism. (b) Peace and harmony. (c) Motherhood. (d) Innocence.
✅ Answer: (b) Peace and harmony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell” implies destroying harmony.

◼️ 973. “Summer-seeming lust” contrasts lust with what imagery?
(a) Winter. (b) Heat. (c) Transient pleasure. (d) Joy.
✅ Answer: (c) Transient pleasure
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase likens lust to a passing season, light yet dangerous.

◼️ 974. “Bloody-scepter’d” in context symbolises:
(a) Legal monarchy. (b) Rightful inheritance. (c) Tyrannical power. (d) Defeated authority.
✅ Answer: (c) Tyrannical power
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d” equates Macbeth’s rule to illegitimate violence.

◼️ 975. “Oft’ner upon her knees than on her feet” is an image evoking:
(a) Servitude. (b) Worship. (c) Mourning. (d) Deceit.
✅ Answer: (b) Worship
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase creates the image of constant prayer and piety.

◼️ 976. “Black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow” implies:
(a) Macbeth is innocent. (b) Malcolm is worse than Macbeth. (c) Snow is impure. (d) Malcolm will defeat Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) Malcolm is worse than Macbeth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm exaggerates his own faults to test Macduff.

◼️ 977. Malcolm’s confession of vices is actually a:
(a) Cry for help. (b) Moral warning. (c) Test of loyalty. (d) Political deception.
✅ Answer: (c) Test of loyalty
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm is testing whether Macduff is truly loyal to Scotland.

◼️ 978. “Boundless intemperance… fall of many kings” implies:
(a) Only good kings fail. (b) Self-control is necessary for rulers. (c) Lust is desirable. (d) Kings should not marry.
✅ Answer: (b) Self-control is necessary for rulers
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff warns that unchecked desires destroy rulers.

◼️ 979. Malcolm’s claim of having no kingly graces shows:
(a) False modesty. (b) Self-awareness. (c) A tactic to provoke reaction. (d) A moral plea.
✅ Answer: (c) A tactic to provoke reaction
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He exaggerates flaws to observe Macduff’s reaction.

◼️ 980. Macduff's lament "Thy hope ends here!" signifies:
(a) A shift in allegiance. (b) A moment of emotional collapse. (c) A patriotic outcry. (d) A false resignation.
✅ Answer: (b) A moment of emotional collapse
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff feels devastated believing Malcolm is truly unfit to rule.

◼️ 981. What emotion in Macduff prompts Malcolm to retract his false self-depiction?

(a) Pity. (b) Rage. (c) Noble passion. (d) Patriotism.
✅ Answer: (c) Noble passion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Macduff, this noble passion, / Child of integrity, hath from my soul / Wiped the black scruples..."

◼️ 982. How does Malcolm describe Macbeth’s method of manipulating others?

(a) Brutality. (b) Trains. (c) Promises. (d) Threats.
✅ Answer: (b) Trains
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Devilish Macbeth / By many of these trains hath sought to win me / Into his power..."

◼️ 983. What quality does Malcolm say prevents him from being over-trusting?

(a) Ambition. (b) Modest wisdom. (c) Hatred. (d) Suspicion.
✅ Answer: (b) Modest wisdom
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Modest wisdom plucks me / From over-credulous haste..."

◼️ 984. Malcolm’s false self-depiction was meant to test whom?

(a) Macbeth. (b) Siward. (c) Macduff. (d) Ross.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I put myself to thy direction, and / Unspeak mine own detraction..."

◼️ 985. Which of the following vices does Malcolm deny possessing in this passage?

(a) Lust. (b) Falsehood. (c) Avarice. (d) All of these.
✅ Answer: (d) All of these
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I am yet / Unknown to woman; never was forsworn; / Scarcely have coveted what was mine own..."

◼️ 986. Malcolm says his first lie was told about—

(a) Macduff. (b) Macbeth. (c) Siward. (d) Himself.
✅ Answer: (d) Himself
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My first false speaking / Was this upon myself."

◼️ 987. Whom does Malcolm mention is already advancing with an army?

(a) Duncan. (b) Siward. (c) Macduff. (d) Edward.
✅ Answer: (b) Siward
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men, / Already at a point..."

◼️ 988. How does Malcolm describe their cause?

(a) Noble. (b) Hopeless. (c) Warranted. (d) Destined.
✅ Answer: (c) Warranted
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The chance of goodness / Be like our warranted quarrel."

◼️ 989. What causes Macduff’s silence after Malcolm’s confession?

(a) Fear of betrayal. (b) Mixture of emotions. (c) Loss of hope. (d) Shock.
✅ Answer: (b) Mixture of emotions
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Such welcome and unwelcome things at once / ’Tis hard to reconcile."

◼️ 990. What is the disease referred to by the doctor?

(a) Plague. (b) Consumption. (c) The Evil. (d) Leprosy.
✅ Answer: (c) The Evil
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "’Tis call’d the evil: / A most miraculous work in this good king..."

◼️ 991. What power does Edward the Confessor reportedly possess?

(a) Prophecy. (b) Flight. (c) Invisibility. (d) Telepathy.
✅ Answer: (a) Prophecy
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "With this strange virtue, / He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy..."

◼️ 992. What signifies the king’s miraculous healing power?

(a) Oil on the forehead. (b) Gold crown. (c) Golden stamp. (d) Prayers.
✅ Answer: (c) Golden stamp
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, / Put on with holy prayers..."

◼️ 993. What is said to accompany the king’s touch in healing?

(a) Fire. (b) Music. (c) Sanctity. (d) Pain.
✅ Answer: (c) Sanctity
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand..."

◼️ 994. What does Macduff call Ross when he enters?

(a) Cousin. (b) Lord. (c) Brother. (d) Messenger.
✅ Answer: (a) Cousin
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither."

◼️ 995. What prayer does Malcolm offer upon recognizing Ross?

(a) "God forgive Macbeth." (b) "Let our paths cross." (c) "Sir, amen." (d) "Good God, betimes remove / The means that makes us strangers!"
✅ Answer: (d) "Good God, betimes remove / The means that makes us strangers!"
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exact quote as given.

◼️ 996. Who are the “strangely-visited people” Malcolm refers to?

(a) Pilgrims. (b) Rebels. (c) The diseased. (d) Nobles.
✅ Answer: (c) The diseased
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Strangely-visited people, / All swoln and ulcerous..."

◼️ 997. What does Malcolm claim he values as much as life?

(a) Peace. (b) Victory. (c) Truth. (d) Honour.
✅ Answer: (c) Truth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Delight / No less in truth than life."

◼️ 998. What “unspeakable” action does Malcolm refer to?

(a) Regicide. (b) His self-deprecation. (c) Trust in Macduff. (d) Hatred of Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) His self-deprecation
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Unspeak mine own detraction..."

◼️ 999. What does Malcolm say he would not betray?

(a) Macduff. (b) The king. (c) The devil to his fellow. (d) His family.
✅ Answer: (c) The devil to his fellow
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Would not betray / The devil to his fellow."

◼️ 1000. What do “sundry blessings” around the king’s throne symbolize?

(a) Military success. (b) Grace and divinity. (c) Political alliances. (d) Medical herbs.
✅ Answer: (b) Grace and divinity
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Sundry blessings hang about his throne, / That speak him full of grace."

◼️ 1001. What is the figure of speech in “wiped the black scruples”?

(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Wiped the black scruples" compares doubts to something that can be wiped away.

◼️ 1002. “Golden stamp” is a symbol of—

(a) War. (b) Wealth. (c) Healing grace. (d) Authority.
✅ Answer: (c) Healing grace
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The king hangs a golden stamp during miraculous cures.

◼️ 1003. What literary device is used in “Such welcome and unwelcome things at once”?

(a) Oxymoron. (b) Euphemism. (c) Personification. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (a) Oxymoron
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Welcome” and “unwelcome” are opposing terms used together.

◼️ 1004. “Strangely-visited people” is an example of—

(a) Personification. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Euphemism. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (c) Euphemism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A mild phrase to describe severely diseased people.

◼️ 1005. “Full of grace” as applied to the king’s throne is—

(a) Symbol. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Irony. (d) Pun.
✅ Answer: (a) Symbol
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The throne symbolically reflects spiritual and moral virtue.

◼️ 1006. What is Malcolm’s real intention in lying about his character earlier?

(a) To mislead Macduff permanently. (b) To prepare for battle. (c) To test Macduff’s loyalty. (d) To frighten Macduff away.
✅ Answer: (c) To test Macduff’s loyalty
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Unspeak mine own detraction... for strangers to my nature."

◼️ 1007. “Put myself to thy direction” implies—

(a) Obedience to God. (b) Yielding leadership to Macduff. (c) A pledge of trust. (d) Strategic withdrawal.
✅ Answer: (c) A pledge of trust
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm offers himself to Macduff and Scotland.

◼️ 1008. “The means that makes us strangers” refers to—

(a) Macbeth’s tyranny. (b) Edward’s healing. (c) Siward’s delay. (d) Disease.
✅ Answer: (a) Macbeth’s tyranny
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm implies Macbeth’s rule has alienated them.

◼️ 1009. What inner conflict does Macduff express with “Such welcome and unwelcome things”?

(a) Joy vs grief. (b) Patriotism vs betrayal. (c) Truth vs flattery. (d) Love vs fear.
✅ Answer: (a) Joy vs grief
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He is torn between hope from Malcolm’s truth and sorrow for Scotland.

◼️ 1010. The entire exchange reveals Malcolm’s transformation into—

(a) A warmonger. (b) A diplomat. (c) A worthy future king. (d) A passive character.
✅ Answer: (c) A worthy future king
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm shows caution, honesty, wisdom, and concern for Scotland.

◼️ 1011. What is Macduff’s immediate question to Ross upon seeing him?

(a) How is my wife? (b) What news from Scotland? (c) Stands Scotland where it did? (d) How goes the war?
✅ Answer: (c) Stands Scotland where it did?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MACDUFF. Stands Scotland where it did?"

◼️ 1012. How does Ross describe the current state of Scotland?

(a) Flourishing. (b) Respected. (c) In mourning. (d) Unrecognizable.
✅ Answer: (d) Unrecognizable
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Almost afraid to know itself!"

◼️ 1013. According to Ross, what has Scotland become instead of a mother?

(a) A battlefield. (b) A grave. (c) A wasteland. (d) A tomb.
✅ Answer: (b) A grave
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "It cannot / Be call’d our mother, but our grave..."

◼️ 1014. Who is seen to smile in Scotland now, according to Ross?

(a) Only children. (b) Only fools. (c) Only those who know nothing. (d) Only nobles.
✅ Answer: (c) Only those who know nothing
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Where nothing, / But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile..."

◼️ 1015. What kinds of sounds fill the air in Scotland?

(a) Cheers. (b) Groans and shrieks. (c) Music and drums. (d) Silence.
✅ Answer: (b) Groans and shrieks
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air..."

◼️ 1016. How does Ross describe the reaction to violent sorrow in Scotland?

(a) Revered. (b) Feared. (c) Ignored. (d) Normalized.
✅ Answer: (d) Normalized
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Where violent sorrow seems / A modern ecstasy."

◼️ 1017. What is the significance of the phrase “the dead man’s knell is scarce ask’d for who”?

(a) People are surprised by every death. (b) The dead are honored. (c) Death is so frequent it's barely questioned. (d) Only nobles are mourned.
✅ Answer: (c) Death is so frequent it's barely questioned
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The dead man’s knell / Is there scarce ask’d for who;"

◼️ 1018. What does Ross say about good men’s lives?

(a) They are celebrated. (b) They are protected. (c) They end prematurely. (d) They go unnoticed.
✅ Answer: (c) They end prematurely
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And good men’s lives / Expire before the flowers in their caps..."

◼️ 1019. What does “dying or ere they sicken” suggest?

(a) Men die before falling ill. (b) They die from sudden disease. (c) They die in war. (d) They fake sickness.
✅ Answer: (a) Men die before falling ill
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Dying or ere they sicken."

◼️ 1020. What is Macduff’s reaction to Ross's report about Scotland?

(a) Indifference. (b) Sadness. (c) Shock. (d) Conflict of emotion.
✅ Answer: (d) Conflict of emotion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "O, relation / Too nice, and yet too true!"

◼️ 1021. What does Malcolm ask Ross after Macduff reacts?

(a) What happened to Scotland? (b) What’s the newest grief? (c) How is Lady Macduff? (d) Is Macbeth still in power?
✅ Answer: (b) What’s the newest grief?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What’s the newest grief?"

◼️ 1022. According to Ross, how frequent are new tragedies in Scotland?

(a) Daily. (b) Weekly. (c) Hourly. (d) Yearly.
✅ Answer: (c) Hourly
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker..."

◼️ 1023. What does Ross say about grief that is only an hour old?

(a) It is already forgotten. (b) It hisses the speaker. (c) It is exaggerated. (d) It turns into strength.
✅ Answer: (b) It hisses the speaker
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker;"

◼️ 1024. What does Macduff ask specifically about his wife?

(a) Has she escaped? (b) How is she? (c) Has Macbeth hurt her? (d) Is she alive?
✅ Answer: (b) How is she?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "How does my wife?"

◼️ 1025. How does Ross first respond to Macduff's question about his wife?

(a) She’s dead. (b) She’s in hiding. (c) Why, well. (d) It’s hard to say.
✅ Answer: (c) Why, well.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "ROSS. Why, well."

◼️ 1026. What is Macduff’s follow-up question after asking about his wife?

(a) What of my castle? (b) Is my son safe? (c) And all my children? (d) Were they harmed?
✅ Answer: (c) And all my children?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MACDUFF. And all my children?"

◼️ 1027. How does Ross describe the condition of Macduff’s children?

(a) Uncertain. (b) Missing. (c) Well too. (d) Injured.
✅ Answer: (c) Well too
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "ROSS. Well too."

◼️ 1028. What does Macduff ask about Macbeth’s violence?

(a) Did he attack my home? (b) Did the tyrant hurt them? (c) The tyrant has not batter’d at their peace? (d) Have they escaped the tyrant?
✅ Answer: (c) The tyrant has not batter’d at their peace?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MACDUFF. The tyrant has not batter’d at their peace?"

◼️ 1029. What does Ross mean when he says, “They were well at peace when I did leave ’em”?

(a) They were content. (b) They had made peace with the tyrant. (c) They had died. (d) They were resting.
✅ Answer: (c) They had died
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "They were well at peace when I did leave ’em."

◼️ 1030. What does Macduff urge Ross not to be “niggard” of?

(a) Mercy. (b) Speech. (c) Time. (d) Support.
✅ Answer: (b) Speech
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Be not a niggard of your speech..."

◼️ 1031. “Scotland... cannot be called our mother, but our grave” contains which literary device?

(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Comparing Scotland to a grave, not a mother.

◼️ 1032. “Sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air” uses—

(a) Metaphor. (b) Alliteration. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (d) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sounds given the human power to “rent the air.”

◼️ 1033. What is the effect of “good men’s lives expire before the flowers in their caps”?

(a) Simile. (b) Symbolism. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The flowers symbolize vitality and youth, yet men die before even aging.

◼️ 1034. “Each minute teems a new one” contains which figure of speech?

(a) Metaphor. (b) Personification. (c) Simile. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Minute” is personified as giving birth to grief.

◼️ 1035. “Dying or ere they sicken” is best described as—

(a) Oxymoron. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The irony lies in dying before even becoming ill.

◼️ 1036. What does “relation too nice, and yet too true” imply?

(a) The news is false. (b) The news is overly flattering. (c) The painful truth is expressed too delicately. (d) The news is from a close relative.
✅ Answer: (c) The painful truth is expressed too delicately
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "O, relation / Too nice, and yet too true!"

◼️ 1037. “Doth hiss the speaker” suggests—

(a) The speaker is praised. (b) The news is out of date. (c) Listeners reject old grief quickly. (d) It’s a whisper.
✅ Answer: (c) Listeners reject old grief quickly
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That of an hour’s age doth hiss the speaker;"

◼️ 1038. What does “Be not a niggard of your speech” reveal about Macduff’s mental state?

(a) Indifference. (b) Calmness. (c) Desperation. (d) Gratitude.
✅ Answer: (c) Desperation
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff is urging Ross to speak plainly and urgently.

◼️ 1039. What emotion is indirectly conveyed when Ross delays revealing the truth?

(a) Bitterness. (b) Compassion. (c) Fear. (d) Anger.
✅ Answer: (b) Compassion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ross’s hesitation suggests his sensitivity to Macduff’s pain.

◼️ 1040. “Now is the time of help” implies—

(a) War must end. (b) Healing must begin. (c) Action is urgently needed. (d) Revenge is over.
✅ Answer: (c) Action is urgently needed
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Now is the time of help."

◼️ 1041. Who does Malcolm say has lent support to their cause?

(a) France. (b) Ireland. (c) Norway. (d) England.
✅ Answer: (d) England
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Gracious England hath / Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;"

◼️ 1042. What does Malcolm say about Siward as a soldier?

(a) He is ruthless. (b) He is young and brave. (c) He is unmatched in Christendom. (d) He has no experience.
✅ Answer: (c) He is unmatched in Christendom
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "An older and a better soldier none / That Christendom gives out."

◼️ 1043. How does Ross describe the words he is about to say?

(a) Words of praise. (b) Words of confusion. (c) Words that belong in the desert. (d) Words of courage.
✅ Answer: (c) Words that belong in the desert
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have words / That would be howl’d out in the desert air..."

◼️ 1044. What does Macduff ask regarding the nature of Ross’s grief?

(a) If it concerns England. (b) If it’s personal or political. (c) If it involves Siward. (d) If it's about Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) If it’s personal or political
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The general cause? or is it a fee-grief / Due to some single breast?"

◼️ 1045. What does Ross say about the nature of sorrow in Scotland?

(a) It is borne in silence. (b) Everyone feels it. (c) Only nobles suffer. (d) It’s limited to Macduff.
✅ Answer: (b) Everyone feels it
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "No mind that’s honest / But in it shares some woe..."

◼️ 1046. What does Ross mean by “though the main part pertains to you alone”?

(a) Macduff shares guilt. (b) Macduff is not involved. (c) The worst part concerns Macduff specifically. (d) Malcolm is the target.
✅ Answer: (c) The worst part concerns Macduff specifically
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...though the main part / Pertains to you alone."

◼️ 1047. How does Ross warn Macduff before revealing the news?

(a) By apologizing for his lie. (b) By requesting forgiveness in advance. (c) By asking him to calm down. (d) By blaming Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (b) By requesting forgiveness in advance
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever..."

◼️ 1048. What is the “heaviest sound” Ross refers to?

(a) Death of Duncan. (b) The fall of Macbeth. (c) The massacre of Macduff’s family. (d) England’s betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) The massacre of Macduff’s family
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...with the heaviest sound / That ever yet they heard."

◼️ 1049. How does Macduff initially respond to Ross’s hesitation?

(a) He gets angry. (b) He guesses the truth. (c) He cries. (d) He praises Ross.
✅ Answer: (b) He guesses the truth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MACDUFF. Humh! I guess at it."

◼️ 1050. What shocking news does Ross finally deliver?

(a) Macbeth has died. (b) Macduff is banished. (c) Macduff’s castle and family are destroyed. (d) The army is defeated.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff’s castle and family are destroyed
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your castle is surpris’d; your wife and babes / Savagely slaughter’d."

◼️ 1051. What metaphor does Ross use when describing how tragic the news is?

(a) Like poison. (b) Like thunder. (c) Like killing a deer then adding another death. (d) Like a broken harp.
✅ Answer: (c) Like killing a deer then adding another death
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To relate the manner / Were, on the quarry of these murder’d deer, / To add the death of you."

◼️ 1052. How does Malcolm advise Macduff to handle his grief?

(a) Ignore it. (b) Let it out through words. (c) Seek revenge. (d) Be silent.
✅ Answer: (b) Let it out through words
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o’er-fraught heart..."

◼️ 1053. What does Macduff confirm with disbelief after hearing the news?

(a) The betrayal of Ross. (b) The involvement of Siward. (c) The death of all his children. (d) Malcolm’s alliance with England.
✅ Answer: (c) The death of all his children
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My children too?"

◼️ 1054. What does Macduff refer to Macbeth as in his moment of grief?

(a) Fiend. (b) Tyrant. (c) Hell-kite. (d) Demon.
✅ Answer: (c) Hell-kite
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "O hell-kite!"

◼️ 1055. What phrase does Macduff use to refer to his family metaphorically?

(a) Precious lambs. (b) Innocent souls. (c) Pretty chickens. (d) Blossoming roses.
✅ Answer: (c) Pretty chickens
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "All my pretty chickens and their dam..."

◼️ 1056. What does Macduff vow to do in response to Malcolm’s challenge to “dispute it like a man”?

(a) Run away. (b) Mourn more. (c) Fight Macbeth. (d) Feel it emotionally first.
✅ Answer: (d) Feel it emotionally first
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I shall do so; / But I must also feel it as a man:"

◼️ 1057. Why does Macduff call himself “sinful Macduff”?

(a) He believes his sins caused his family’s death. (b) He betrayed Malcolm. (c) He killed Duncan. (d) He lied to Ross.
✅ Answer: (a) He believes his sins caused his family’s death
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Sinful Macduff, / They were all struck for thee!"

◼️ 1058. What advice does Malcolm give about channeling grief?

(a) Suppress it. (b) Let it consume you. (c) Turn it to anger. (d) Share it with others.
✅ Answer: (c) Turn it to anger
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Let grief / Convert to anger..."

◼️ 1059. What does Macduff pray for in his final speech?

(a) Safety for Malcolm. (b) Immediate battle with Macbeth. (c) Forgiveness from God. (d) Peace for Scotland.
✅ Answer: (b) Immediate battle with Macbeth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Front to front, / Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;"

◼️ 1060. What does Malcolm say in praise of Macduff’s final declaration?

(a) This tune goes manly. (b) You are brave. (c) You will win. (d) That is noble.
✅ Answer: (a) This tune goes manly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MALCOLM. This tune goes manly."

◼️ 1061. “Hell-kite” is an example of—

(a) Alliteration. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth is metaphorically compared to a vicious bird of prey from hell.

◼️ 1062. “All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop” is—

(a) Simile. (b) Symbol. (c) Allusion. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His children and wife are likened to vulnerable chickens killed suddenly.

◼️ 1063. “Give sorrow words” is an example of—

(a) Apostrophe. (b) Personification. (c) Synecdoche. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Personification
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sorrow is personified as something that can be given language.

◼️ 1064. “Quarry of these murdered deer” symbolizes—

(a) Poetic justice. (b) Commoners. (c) Innocent victims. (d) Hunters.
✅ Answer: (c) Innocent victims
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Murdered deer” refers to Macduff’s innocent family.

◼️ 1065. “Dispute it like a man” is best seen as—

(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Metonymy.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Comparing the approach to grief with manliness using 'like'.

◼️ 1066. What does “Let not your ears despise my tongue” mean?

(a) Don't hate me for what I say. (b) Ignore what you hear. (c) Block your ears. (d) The message is false.
✅ Answer: (a) Don't hate me for what I say
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ross fears Macduff’s reaction to tragic news.

◼️ 1067. What is the inner meaning of “They were all struck for thee!”?

(a) They fought for Macduff. (b) They died due to Macduff’s actions. (c) They died as punishment. (d) They betrayed Macduff.
✅ Answer: (b) They died due to Macduff’s actions
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macduff blames himself for their deaths.

◼️ 1068. What does “Be this the whetstone of your sword” imply?

(a) Stay calm. (b) Sharpen your revenge. (c) Join the army. (d) Pray for guidance.
✅ Answer: (b) Sharpen your revenge
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm urges Macduff to turn grief into motivation.

◼️ 1069. “The night is long that never finds the day” symbolically represents—

(a) Eternal battle. (b) The end of tyranny. (c) Endless suffering. (d) Hope for victory.
✅ Answer: (c) Endless suffering
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to the prolonged reign of Macbeth’s tyranny.

◼️ 1070. What is implied by “If he ’scape, Heaven forgive him too”?

(a) Macduff has forgiven Macbeth. (b) Macduff leaves judgment to God. (c) Macbeth is innocent. (d) Macbeth will escape.
✅ Answer: (b) Macduff leaves judgment to God
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: If Macbeth escapes his sword, Macduff surrenders justice to heaven.

◼️ 1071. Why had the Doctor watched with the Gentlewoman for two nights?

(a) To treat Lady Macbeth’s fever. (b) To confirm the Gentlewoman’s claims. (c) To prepare medicines. (d) To wait for Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (b) To confirm the Gentlewoman’s claims.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive no truth in your report."

◼️ 1072. What activity does Lady Macbeth perform while asleep?
(a) Singing and crying. (b) Dressing and cooking. (c) Walking, writing, and sealing a letter. (d) Talking to Banquo’s ghost.
✅ Answer: (c) Walking, writing, and sealing a letter.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her... write upon’t, read it, afterwards seal it..."

◼️ 1073. What does the Doctor say about the nature of Lady Macbeth’s condition?
(a) She is pretending. (b) It is a natural illness. (c) It is a spiritual affliction. (d) It is a confusion of sleep and wakefulness.
✅ Answer: (d) It is a confusion of sleep and wakefulness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching."

◼️ 1074. What unusual habit has Lady Macbeth developed during her sleepwalking?
(a) Pulling her hair. (b) Rubbing her hands. (c) Shouting loudly. (d) Dancing.
✅ Answer: (b) Rubbing her hands.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Look how she rubs her hands."

◼️ 1075. How long has the Gentlewoman observed Lady Macbeth rubbing her hands?
(a) A minute. (b) Ten minutes. (c) A quarter of an hour. (d) An hour.
✅ Answer: (c) A quarter of an hour.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour."

◼️ 1076. What specific line does Lady Macbeth utter that shows her guilt over Duncan’s murder?
(a) “To bed, to bed!” (b) “Hell is murky!” (c) “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” (d) “Banquo’s buried.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: This line signifies her desperate attempt to rid herself of blood guilt.

◼️ 1077. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “One; two. Why, then ’tis time to do’t”?
(a) It’s time to escape. (b) She’s rehearsing a murder. (c) She refers to the timing of Duncan's murder. (d) She’s counting sheep.
✅ Answer: (c) She refers to the timing of Duncan's murder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The bell signaled the appointed time for Duncan’s murder, earlier in the play.

◼️ 1078. What action of Macbeth’s does Lady Macbeth mock in her sleep?
(a) His fear. (b) His love. (c) His ambition. (d) His silence.
✅ Answer: (a) His fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard?”

◼️ 1079. Whom does Lady Macbeth mention in regret, referring to the Thane of Fife?
(a) Banquo. (b) Macduff’s wife. (c) Malcolm. (d) Duncan.
✅ Answer: (b) Macduff’s wife.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?"

◼️ 1080. How does Lady Macbeth describe the futility of trying to cleanse her hands?
(a) “These hands will fade.” (b) “The sea will wash them.” (c) “Ne’er be clean.” (d) “They bleed still.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Ne’er be clean.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

◼️ 1081. What sense does Lady Macbeth say remains affected by the murder?
(a) Sight. (b) Smell. (c) Hearing. (d) Touch.
✅ Answer: (b) Smell.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here’s the smell of the blood still.”

◼️ 1082. What comparison does Lady Macbeth use for the ineffectiveness of perfumes?
(a) All the flowers of Eden. (b) Arabian perfumes. (c) Scottish scents. (d) Lavender and rosemary.
✅ Answer: (b) Arabian perfumes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

◼️ 1083. What reaction does the Doctor have to Lady Macbeth’s sigh?
(a) He sighs too. (b) He mocks her. (c) He notes her heart is heavily burdened. (d) He prays aloud.
✅ Answer: (c) He notes her heart is heavily burdened.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.”

◼️ 1084. How does the Gentlewoman react to Lady Macbeth’s spiritual state?
(a) She supports her. (b) She weeps. (c) She feels pity and fear. (d) She laughs nervously.
✅ Answer: (c) She feels pity and fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body.”

◼️ 1085. What does the Doctor conclude about Lady Macbeth’s malady?
(a) It is medical. (b) It is fake. (c) It is moral or spiritual. (d) It is madness.
✅ Answer: (c) It is moral or spiritual.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “More needs she the divine than the physician.”

◼️ 1086. What does Lady Macbeth say about Banquo in her trance?
(a) “He lives in my dream.” (b) “He’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.” (c) “His ghost haunts me.” (d) “He has blood on his hands.”
✅ Answer: (b) “He’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Reflects her guilt and delusion.

◼️ 1087. What sound does Lady Macbeth refer to at the end of her scene?
(a) Screaming. (b) Thunder. (c) Knocking. (d) Music.
✅ Answer: (c) Knocking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s knocking at the gate.”

◼️ 1088. What final instruction does Lady Macbeth give before exiting?
(a) “To the tower!” (b) “Repent, Macbeth!” (c) “To sleep!” (d) “To bed, to bed, to bed.”
✅ Answer: (d) “To bed, to bed, to bed.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition reflects her disturbed state.

◼️ 1089. What command does the Doctor give for Lady Macbeth’s safety?
(a) Lock her up. (b) Give her medicine. (c) Keep away sharp objects. (d) Remove means of annoyance.
✅ Answer: (d) Remove means of annoyance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Remove from her the means of all annoyance.”

◼️ 1090. What final impression does the Doctor express?
(a) Hope. (b) Confusion and fear. (c) Optimism. (d) Dismissiveness.
✅ Answer: (b) Confusion and fear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight. I think, but dare not speak.”

◼️ 1091. What does the “spot” symbolize in “Out, damned spot!”?

(a) A mole. (b) An actual stain. (c) Her ambition. (d) Her guilt.
✅ Answer: (d) Her guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The imaginary bloodstain is a symbol of her unshakable guilt.

◼️ 1092. What figure of speech is used in “Hell is murky!”?
(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase gives hell a physical quality — “murky” like a place covered in gloom.

◼️ 1093. The line “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” contains—
(a) Personification. (b) Metaphor. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The exaggeration shows how overwhelming her guilt is.

◼️ 1094. “Foul whisperings are abroad” is an example of—
(a) Euphemism. (b) Symbolism. (c) Alliteration. (d) Metonymy.
✅ Answer: (c) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition of the “w” and “f” sounds intensifies the ominous tone.

◼️ 1095. What is the function of repeated words like “To bed, to bed, to bed”?
(a) Symbolizes sleep. (b) Mimics ritual. (c) Shows urgency. (d) Emphasizes mental collapse.
✅ Answer: (d) Emphasizes mental collapse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The repetition mirrors her obsessive and disturbed state of mind.

◼️ 1096. “You have known what you should not” implies—

(a) An accusation. (b) A warning. (c) A moral rebuke. (d) Knowledge of treason.
✅ Answer: (c) A moral rebuke.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The Doctor scolds the Gentlewoman for being aware of damning knowledge.

◼️ 1097. “More needs she the divine than the physician” means—
(a) She needs a better doctor. (b) Her illness is imaginary. (c) She requires spiritual healing. (d) She needs sleep.
✅ Answer: (c) She requires spiritual healing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her guilt is moral/spiritual, not medical.

◼️ 1098. What does “infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets” imply?
(a) Secrets are heard by pillows. (b) Guilt cannot be suppressed. (c) Insomnia is fatal. (d) Dreams cure disease.
✅ Answer: (b) Guilt cannot be suppressed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Even in sleep, guilt reveals itself involuntarily.

◼️ 1099. “My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight” conveys—
(a) Love. (b) Madness. (c) Shock and defeat. (d) Curiosity.
✅ Answer: (c) Shock and defeat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The Doctor is overwhelmed and confused by what he has seen.

◼️ 1100. What is the inner meaning of “What’s done cannot be undone”?
(a) Guilt is temporary. (b) One must forget the past. (c) Acceptance of irreversible guilt. (d) Time can heal.
✅ Answer: (c) Acceptance of irreversible guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lady Macbeth resigns herself to consequences she can no longer escape.

◼️ 1101. Who is leading the English power mentioned at the beginning of the scene?

(a) Donalbain. (b) Siward. (c) Malcolm. (d) Macduff.
✅ Answer: (c) Malcolm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The English power is near, led on by Malcolm."

◼️ 1102. Who accompanies Malcolm in leading the English force?
(a) Angus and Lennox. (b) Donalbain and Banquo. (c) Siward and Macduff. (d) Ross and Menteith.
✅ Answer: (c) Siward and Macduff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff."

◼️ 1103. What emotion is said to 'burn' in Malcolm and his companions?
(a) Hatred. (b) Revenges. (c) Ambition. (d) Hope.
✅ Answer: (b) Revenges.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Revenges burn in them."

◼️ 1104. Which location near Dunsinane do the Scottish forces plan to meet Malcolm?
(a) Birnam wood. (b) Dunsinane hill. (c) Inverness. (d) Forres.
✅ Answer: (a) Birnam wood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Near Birnam wood shall we well meet them."

◼️ 1105. According to Lennox, who is not with Malcolm's army?
(a) Siward’s son. (b) Donalbain. (c) Macduff. (d) Angus.
✅ Answer: (b) Donalbain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "For certain, sir, he is not."

◼️ 1106. What kind of youths are mentioned as part of the army?
(a) Bearded soldiers. (b) Warriors of experience. (c) Unrough youths. (d) Trained knights.
✅ Answer: (c) Unrough youths.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And many unrough youths."

◼️ 1107. How does Caithness describe Macbeth’s current actions?
(a) Planning retreat. (b) Marching forward. (c) Fortifying Dunsinane. (d) Surrendering.
✅ Answer: (c) Fortifying Dunsinane.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies."

◼️ 1108. What do Macbeth’s lesser enemies call his rage?
(a) Valiant fury. (b) Mad ambition. (c) Cowardice. (d) Guilty conscience.
✅ Answer: (a) Valiant fury.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Others, that lesser hate him, do call it valiant fury."

◼️ 1109. According to Angus, what now ‘sticks on Macbeth’s hands’?
(a) Dirt. (b) His secret murders. (c) Guilt. (d) Blood.
✅ Answer: (b) His secret murders.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Now does he feel his secret murders sticking on his hands."

◼️ 1110. Why do Macbeth’s followers obey him, according to Angus?
(a) For honor. (b) From fear. (c) Out of loyalty. (d) Only in command.
✅ Answer: (d) Only in command.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love."

◼️ 1111. What metaphor does Angus use for Macbeth’s title?
(a) An iron crown. (b) A thorny robe. (c) A giant’s robe on a dwarfish thief. (d) A crown of guilt.
✅ Answer: (c) A giant’s robe on a dwarfish thief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief."

◼️ 1112. What do Macbeth’s “pester’d senses” do?
(a) Accuse others. (b) Recoil and start. (c) Conquer fear. (d) Weaken his army.
✅ Answer: (b) Recoil and start.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His pester’d senses to recoil and start."

◼️ 1113. What does everything within Macbeth do, according to Menteith?
(a) Betray him. (b) Condemn itself. (c) Plan escape. (d) Rebel.
✅ Answer: (b) Condemn itself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "When all that is within him does condemn itself for being there."

◼️ 1114. According to Caithness, to whom should obedience be given?
(a) Macbeth. (b) Malcolm. (c) The people. (d) Donalbain.
✅ Answer: (b) Malcolm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To give obedience where ’tis truly ow’d."

◼️ 1115. What metaphor is used for Malcolm by Caithness?
(a) The light of Scotland. (b) Medicine of the sickly weal. (c) The storm before calm. (d) Sword of justice.
✅ Answer: (b) Medicine of the sickly weal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Meet we the med’cine of the sickly weal."

◼️ 1116. What does Caithness suggest they pour into the country’s purge?
(a) Their swords. (b) Every drop of poison. (c) Each drop of us. (d) The royal bloodline.
✅ Answer: (c) Each drop of us.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And with him pour we, in our country’s purge, each drop of us."

◼️ 1117. What flower does Lennox mention?
(a) White rose. (b) Thistle. (c) Sovereign flower. (d) Golden lily.
✅ Answer: (c) Sovereign flower.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To dew the sovereign flower."

◼️ 1118. According to Lennox, what must be drowned?
(a) The tyrant’s voice. (b) Macbeth’s ambition. (c) The weeds. (d) The crown’s blood.
✅ Answer: (c) The weeds.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And drown the weeds."

◼️ 1119. What does Lennox say they should do next?
(a) Rest. (b) Retreat. (c) March towards Birnam. (d) Attack Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (c) March towards Birnam.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Make we our march towards Birnam."

◼️ 1120. Who among them expresses doubt about Donalbain’s presence?
(a) Caithness. (b) Lennox. (c) Menteith. (d) Angus.
✅ Answer: (a) Caithness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?"

◼️ 1121. What figure of speech is used in “like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief”?

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief."

◼️ 1122. What does “sovereign flower” symbolize in the scene?
(a) Scotland. (b) Donalbain. (c) Malcolm. (d) Justice.
✅ Answer: (c) Malcolm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To dew the sovereign flower."

◼️ 1123. What does “pester’d senses” metaphorically refer to?
(a) Macbeth’s confusion. (b) The rebellion. (c) Madness. (d) Tyranny.
✅ Answer: (a) Macbeth’s confusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His pester’d senses to recoil and start."

◼️ 1124. “Country’s purge” is a metaphor for—
(a) Cleansing the land through revolt. (b) Healing the sick king. (c) Fighting disease. (d) Economic revival.
✅ Answer: (a) Cleansing the land through revolt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "In our country’s purge, each drop of us."

◼️ 1125. The phrase “secret murders sticking on his hands” is an example of—
(a) Simile. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Personification. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His secret murders sticking on his hands."

◼️ 1126. What is the deeper implication of “move only in command, nothing in love”?

(a) Macbeth is beloved but feared. (b) His men obey from duty, not loyalty. (c) Macbeth leads by inspiring love. (d) The army is hesitant.
✅ Answer: (b) His men obey from duty, not loyalty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love."

◼️ 1127. The phrase “title hang loose” implies—
(a) Macbeth is respected. (b) His kingship is unstable. (c) The robe is elegant. (d) He has inherited power justly.
✅ Answer: (b) His kingship is unstable.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "His title hang loose about him."

◼️ 1128. “Obedience where ’tis truly ow’d” expresses—
(a) Betrayal of Macbeth. (b) Support for rightful ruler. (c) Anarchy. (d) Cowardice.
✅ Answer: (b) Support for rightful ruler.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "To give obedience where ’tis truly ow’d."

◼️ 1129. What is the implied meaning of “valiant fury”?
(a) Courageous madness. (b) Justified rebellion. (c) Feigned bravery. (d) Controlled anger.
✅ Answer: (a) Courageous madness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Call it valiant fury."

◼️ 1130. “Drown the weeds” implies—
(a) Nourishing growth. (b) Removing corruption. (c) Sowing rebellion. (d) Poisoning fields.
✅ Answer: (b) Removing corruption.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And drown the weeds."

◼️ 1131. What does Macbeth demand at the beginning of the scene?

(a) Reports of the enemy's strength. (b) To be left alone. (c) No more reports. (d) His sword.
✅ Answer: (c) No more reports.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Bring me no more reports; let them fly all."

◼️ 1132. What event does Macbeth claim would be necessary for him to fear?
(a) Malcolm's coronation. (b) Birnam wood moving to Dunsinane. (c) His army’s defeat. (d) Lady Macbeth’s death.
✅ Answer: (b) Birnam wood moving to Dunsinane.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear."

◼️ 1133. What prophetic assurance did Macbeth receive from the spirits?
(a) He will rule for life. (b) Malcolm shall not defeat him. (c) No man of woman born can harm him. (d) Dunsinane shall not fall.
✅ Answer: (c) No man of woman born can harm him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "No man that’s born of woman shall e’er have power upon thee."

◼️ 1134. How does Macbeth describe Malcolm?
(a) Noble rebel. (b) A valiant foe. (c) The boy Malcolm. (d) Cowardly prince.
✅ Answer: (c) The boy Malcolm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What’s the boy Malcolm?"

◼️ 1135. How does Macbeth insult the servant upon his entrance?
(a) Goose-livered coward. (b) Cream-fac’d loon. (c) Pale traitor. (d) Milk-hearted fool.
✅ Answer: (b) Cream-fac’d loon.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac’d loon!"

◼️ 1136. What term does Macbeth use to mock the servant’s fear?
(a) Goose look. (b) Coward's gaze. (c) Traitor’s cheek. (d) Sheepish eye.
✅ Answer: (a) Goose look.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Where gott’st thou that goose look?"

◼️ 1137. How many soldiers does the servant report?
(a) A thousand. (b) Ten thousand. (c) Five hundred. (d) Twenty thousand.
✅ Answer: (b) Ten thousand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "There is ten thousand—"

◼️ 1138. How does Macbeth describe the servant’s face?
(a) Linen cheeks. (b) Bloodless lips. (c) Cheek of snow. (d) Fiery eyes.
✅ Answer: (a) Linen cheeks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Those linen cheeks of thine are counsellors to fear."

◼️ 1139. What does Macbeth threaten to do with those who talk of fear?
(a) Imprison them. (b) Silence them. (c) Hang them. (d) Banish them.
✅ Answer: (c) Hang them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Hang those that talk of fear."

◼️ 1140. What emotional state does Macbeth admit to when calling for Seyton?
(a) Joyful anticipation. (b) Sick at heart. (c) Fierce resolve. (d) Confused wonder.
✅ Answer: (b) Sick at heart.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I am sick at heart, when I behold—Seyton, I say!"

◼️ 1141. What has Macbeth’s way of life fallen into?
(a) Barren winter. (b) Dry harvest. (c) The sere, the yellow leaf. (d) Blackened fruit.
✅ Answer: (c) The sere, the yellow leaf.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf."

◼️ 1142. What does Macbeth lament he shall not have in old age?
(a) Wealth and power. (b) Love and family. (c) Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends. (d) Justice and fame.
✅ Answer: (c) Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And that which should accompany old age... I must not look to have."

◼️ 1143. What replaces honour and love in Macbeth’s old age?
(a) Sorrow and war. (b) Betrayal and fear. (c) Curses, mouth-honour, breath. (d) Silence and regret.
✅ Answer: (c) Curses, mouth-honour, breath.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "But, in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath."

◼️ 1144. What kind of fancies trouble Lady Macbeth according to the doctor?
(a) Horrible dreams. (b) Supernatural visions. (c) Thick-coming fancies. (d) Rebellious thoughts.
✅ Answer: (c) Thick-coming fancies.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "She is troubled with thick-coming fancies."

◼️ 1145. What does Macbeth ask the doctor to do for Lady Macbeth?
(a) Calm her. (b) Cure her. (c) Imprison her. (d) Forget her.
✅ Answer: (b) Cure her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Cure her of that."

◼️ 1146. Which of the following is NOT something Macbeth asks the doctor to do?
(a) Raze out written troubles. (b) Pluck sorrow from memory. (c) Wipe out dreams. (d) Cleanse the stuffed bosom.
✅ Answer: (c) Wipe out dreams.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Raze out the written troubles... pluck from the memory... cleanse the stuff’d bosom."

◼️ 1147. What does the doctor say about treating Lady Macbeth?
(a) Only divine power can help. (b) She must rest. (c) The patient must minister to herself. (d) She is beyond hope.
✅ Answer: (c) The patient must minister to herself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Therein the patient must minister to himself."

◼️ 1148. How does Macbeth dismiss medicine after hearing the doctor?
(a) Calls it weak. (b) Praises it. (c) Orders more. (d) Throws it to the dogs.
✅ Answer: (d) Throws it to the dogs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it."

◼️ 1149. What purgative substances does Macbeth name?
(a) Rhubarb and senna. (b) Opium and belladonna. (c) Mandrake and aconite. (d) Vinegar and honey.
✅ Answer: (a) Rhubarb and senna.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug..."

◼️ 1150. How does the doctor express his desire to escape Dunsinane?
(a) He will flee at dawn. (b) He would not return for profit. (c) He will take leave. (d) The castle sickens him.
✅ Answer: (b) He would not return for profit.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Profit again should hardly draw me here."

◼️ 1151. What literary device is used in “my way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf”?

(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Symbolism. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My way of life is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf."

◼️ 1152. What does “mouth-honour” symbolize?
(a) Genuine praise. (b) Empty flattery. (c) Royal dignity. (d) A knight’s oath.
✅ Answer: (b) Empty flattery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Mouth-honour, breath."

◼️ 1153. Which image does Macbeth use to describe erasing painful memories?
(a) Razing a city. (b) Wiping a slate. (c) Razing written troubles from the brain. (d) Tearing out pages.
✅ Answer: (c) Razing written troubles from the brain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Raze out the written troubles of the brain."

◼️ 1154. What figure of speech is “Throw physic to the dogs”?
(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Apostrophe. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it."

◼️ 1155. “Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff” is an example of—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Irony. (c) Alliteration. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff."

◼️ 1156. What does Macbeth’s call for armour symbolize at this point?

(a) Physical preparation. (b) Cowardice. (c) Readiness for death. (d) Psychological defense.
✅ Answer: (d) Psychological defense.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Give me mine armour... I’ll put it on."

◼️ 1157. What does the phrase “pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow” suggest?
(a) Emotional healing. (b) Amnesia. (c) Brain injury. (d) Vengeance.
✅ Answer: (a) Emotional healing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow."

◼️ 1158. What is Macbeth’s tone when he says “I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d”?
(a) Frustrated. (b) Passive. (c) Desperate bravado. (d) Joyful courage.
✅ Answer: (c) Desperate bravado.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d."

◼️ 1159. What does “If thou couldst, doctor, cast / The water of my land” imply?
(a) Macbeth wants a new ruler. (b) Macbeth equates healing his land to curing a disease. (c) He wants to abandon Scotland. (d) He seeks divine help.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth equates healing his land to curing a disease.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it..."

◼️ 1160. Why does the doctor wish to leave Dunsinane?
(a) Fear of Macbeth. (b) Illness in the air. (c) A sense of doom. (d) Lack of profit.
✅ Answer: (c) A sense of doom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Were I from Dunsinane away and clear, profit again should hardly draw me here."

◼️ 1161. What hope does Malcolm express at the beginning of the scene?

(a) That Macbeth has fled. (b) That soldiers will rest. (c) That chambers will be safe. (d) That Birnam wood has moved.
✅ Answer: (c) That chambers will be safe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand / That chambers will be safe."

◼️ 1162. Who responds to Malcolm’s hope with confidence?
(a) Siward. (b) Macduff. (c) Menteith. (d) Angus.
✅ Answer: (c) Menteith.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MENTEITH. We doubt it nothing."

◼️ 1163. What does Siward inquire about in the scene?
(a) Macbeth’s location. (b) The wood in front. (c) The number of soldiers. (d) The time of attack.
✅ Answer: (b) The wood in front.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "SIWARD. What wood is this before us?"

◼️ 1164. What is the name of the wood before them?
(a) Dunsinane Wood. (b) Forest of Scotland. (c) Birnam Wood. (d) Inverness Grove.
✅ Answer: (c) Birnam Wood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "MENTEITH. The wood of Birnam."

◼️ 1165. What tactical command does Malcolm give the soldiers?
(a) Burn the forest. (b) March in silence. (c) Wear enemy colours. (d) Hew down a bough and carry it.
✅ Answer: (d) Hew down a bough and carry it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Let every soldier hew him down a bough, / And bear’t before him."

◼️ 1166. What is the strategic purpose of carrying boughs?
(a) To prepare firewood. (b) To signal allies. (c) To hide their numbers. (d) To trap Macbeth’s men.
✅ Answer: (c) To hide their numbers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host."

◼️ 1167. How do the soldiers respond to Malcolm’s order?
(a) With hesitation. (b) With complaint. (c) With agreement. (d) With cheers.
✅ Answer: (c) With agreement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "SOLDIERS. It shall be done."

◼️ 1168. What do they hear about Macbeth's current position?
(a) He has retreated. (b) He is fleeing. (c) He remains confidently in Dunsinane. (d) He has sent ambassadors.
✅ Answer: (c) He remains confidently in Dunsinane.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We learn no other but the confident tyrant / Keeps still in Dunsinane."

◼️ 1169. What does Siward say Macbeth will endure?
(a) Their prayers. (b) Their setting down before the castle. (c) Betrayals of his men. (d) The fires they set.
✅ Answer: (b) Their setting down before the castle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And will endure / Our setting down before’t."

◼️ 1170. What does Malcolm refer to as Macbeth’s ‘main hope’?
(a) That the English will retreat. (b) That the witches were wrong. (c) That no one revolts. (d) That people desert him.
✅ Answer: (d) That people desert him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "’Tis his main hope; / For where there is advantage to be given, / Both more and less have given him the revolt."

◼️ 1171. What phrase does Malcolm use to describe those who serve Macbeth?
(a) Faithful soldiers. (b) Friends in disguise. (c) Constrained things. (d) Traitors in waiting.
✅ Answer: (c) Constrained things.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And none serve with him but constrained things."

◼️ 1172. What is notable about the hearts of Macbeth's soldiers, according to Malcolm?
(a) They are brave. (b) They are fearful. (c) They are absent. (d) They are loyal.
✅ Answer: (c) They are absent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Whose hearts are absent too."

◼️ 1173. What does Macduff suggest should guide their judgments?
(a) Divine signs. (b) Popular support. (c) True events. (d) Omens from nature.
✅ Answer: (c) True events.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Let our just censures / Attend the true event."

◼️ 1174. What does Macduff propose they put on?
(a) Armour of God. (b) Industrious soldiership. (c) Royal cloaks. (d) Warpaint.
✅ Answer: (b) Industrious soldiership.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And put we on / Industrious soldiership."

◼️ 1175. What kind of decision does Siward say is approaching?
(a) Political. (b) Moral. (c) Military. (d) Divine.
✅ Answer: (c) Military.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The time approaches, / That will with due decision make us know..."

◼️ 1176. What will the approaching time make them know, according to Siward?
(a) What they are owed. (b) What they have and what they owe. (c) What must be done. (d) What Macbeth has planned.
✅ Answer: (b) What they have and what they owe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What we shall say we have, and what we owe."

◼️ 1177. According to Siward, what relates unsure hopes?
(a) War. (b) Prayer. (c) Thoughts speculative. (d) False friends.
✅ Answer: (c) Thoughts speculative.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate."

◼️ 1178. What must arbitrate the outcome according to Siward?
(a) Time. (b) Honour. (c) Certain issue strokes. (d) Prophecies.
✅ Answer: (c) Certain issue strokes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "But certain issue strokes must arbitrate."

◼️ 1179. What action closes the scene?
(a) A prayer. (b) A call for surrender. (c) Marching toward war. (d) Raising the flag.
✅ Answer: (c) Marching toward war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Towards which advance the war. [Exeunt, marching.]"

◼️ 1180. Which of these nobles is NOT mentioned in this scene?
(a) Ross. (b) Menteith. (c) Banquo. (d) Lennox.
✅ Answer: (c) Banquo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Banquo is dead by Act V and does not appear in the list of characters entering.

◼️ 1181. What does the image of soldiers carrying boughs symbolize?

(a) Readiness for winter. (b) Nature rebelling. (c) Strategic camouflage. (d) Burial preparations.
✅ Answer: (c) Strategic camouflage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Let every soldier hew him down a bough... Thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host."

◼️ 1182. The phrase “constrained things” is an example of—
(a) Alliteration. (b) Metaphor. (c) Personification. (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (c) Personification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And none serve with him but constrained things."

◼️ 1183. “Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate” is an example of—
(a) Synecdoche. (b) Alliteration. (c) Metonymy. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition of the initial consonant 's' and 'h' in "speculative" and "hopes."

◼️ 1184. What figure of speech is used in “shadow the numbers of our host”?
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Metaphor. (c) Simile. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host."

◼️ 1185. “Certain issue strokes must arbitrate” contains which literary device?
(a) Simile. (b) Oxymoron. (c) Metaphor. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Strokes” of battle are personified as arbiters or judges.

◼️ 1186. What does Malcolm’s use of tree branches imply about leadership?

(a) Brutality. (b) Cunning and adaptability. (c) Dependence on fate. (d) Magical power.
✅ Answer: (b) Cunning and adaptability.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Malcolm uses deception to confuse Macbeth’s scouts.

◼️ 1187. What does Siward’s reflection on “what we have and what we owe” express?
(a) Economic calculation. (b) Duty to the crown. (c) Moral balance after battle. (d) Personal ambition.
✅ Answer: (c) Moral balance after battle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What we shall say we have, and what we owe."

◼️ 1188. What inner conflict is suggested by “hearts are absent” in Macbeth’s men?
(a) They doubt the king. (b) They long for family. (c) They fear death. (d) They lack true loyalty.
✅ Answer: (d) They lack true loyalty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Whose hearts are absent too."

◼️ 1189. What is the significance of “Thoughts speculative” in the context of war?
(a) Encouragement to dream. (b) Warning against indecision. (c) Reference to religious belief. (d) Urge for retreat.
✅ Answer: (b) Warning against indecision.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate."

◼️ 1190. What does advancing the war represent for the characters in this scene?
(a) A moral burden. (b) A gamble. (c) A final reckoning. (d) A desperate escape.
✅ Answer: (c) A final reckoning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Towards which advance the war."

◼️ 1191. What does Macbeth instruct at the beginning of the scene?
(a) To burn Birnam wood. (b) To lower the banners. (c) To hang out the banners. (d) To summon witches again.
✅ Answer: (c) To hang out the banners.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Hang out our banners on the outward walls."

◼️ 1192. What news keeps reaching Macbeth about the enemy?
(a) They are lost. (b) They are retreating. (c) They come. (d) They switched sides.
✅ Answer: (c) They come.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The cry is still, 'They come!'"

◼️ 1193. How does Macbeth describe the strength of his castle?
(a) It will outlast a storm. (b) It will burn down. (c) It will laugh a siege to scorn. (d) It is made of magic.
✅ Answer: (c) It will laugh a siege to scorn.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Our castle’s strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn."

◼️ 1194. What two afflictions does Macbeth hope will wear the enemy down?
(a) Hunger and rain. (b) Magic and betrayal. (c) Famine and the ague. (d) Treachery and doubt.
✅ Answer: (c) Famine and the ague.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Till famine and the ague eat them up."

◼️ 1195. What might have changed the course of battle, according to Macbeth?
(a) Stronger fortifications. (b) More witches. (c) If his own soldiers hadn't joined the enemy. (d) If he’d acted sooner.
✅ Answer: (c) If his own soldiers hadn't joined the enemy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Were they not forc’d with those that should be ours."

◼️ 1196. How would Macbeth have preferred to meet the enemy?
(a) With diplomatic talks. (b) Through spies. (c) Dareful, beard to beard. (d) After nightfall.
✅ Answer: (c) Dareful, beard to beard.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "We might have met them dareful, beard to beard."

◼️ 1197. What interrupts Macbeth’s speech?
(a) A messenger. (b) A trumpet. (c) A cry of women. (d) A raven’s call.
✅ Answer: (c) A cry of women.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "[A cry of women within.]"

◼️ 1198. Who explains the source of the noise to Macbeth?
(a) A servant. (b) Lennox. (c) Seyton. (d) A doctor.
✅ Answer: (c) Seyton.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "SEYTON. It is the cry of women, my good lord."

◼️ 1199. What does Macbeth say about his sense of fear?
(a) It has grown stronger. (b) It’s just beginning. (c) He has forgotten the taste of fears. (d) He fears only witches now.
✅ Answer: (c) He has forgotten the taste of fears.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have almost forgot the taste of fears."

◼️ 1200. What would once have made Macbeth’s hair stand on end?
(a) Thunder. (b) Dismal stories. (c) Loud battle cries. (d) Drums.
✅ Answer: (b) Dismal stories.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir."

◼️ 1201. What has Macbeth “supp’d full with”?
(a) Hatred. (b) Blood. (c) Ambition. (d) Horrors.
✅ Answer: (d) Horrors.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I have supp’d full with horrors."

◼️ 1202. How does Macbeth react to the Queen's death at first?
(a) He cries in despair. (b) He says she should have died later. (c) He faints. (d) He blames Seyton.
✅ Answer: (b) He says she should have died later.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "She should have died hereafter."

◼️ 1203. What is the pace of “tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”?
(a) Hurried. (b) Swift and fierce. (c) Petty and creeping. (d) Triumphant.
✅ Answer: (c) Petty and creeping.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

◼️ 1204. What do all yesterdays do, according to Macbeth?
(a) Inspire courage. (b) Lead us to salvation. (c) Light fools the way to dusty death. (d) Haunt the guilty.
✅ Answer: (c) Light fools the way to dusty death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death."

◼️ 1205. How does Macbeth describe life metaphorically?
(a) A burning fire. (b) A noble cause. (c) A brief candle. (d) A holy gift.
✅ Answer: (c) A brief candle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Out, out, brief candle!"

◼️ 1206. What does Macbeth call life, comparing it to performance?
(a) A noble story. (b) A brave act. (c) A poor player. (d) A brilliant show.
✅ Answer: (c) A poor player.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player."

◼️ 1207. What enters after the soliloquy?
(a) A witch. (b) Malcolm. (c) A messenger. (d) Ross.
✅ Answer: (c) A messenger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Enter a Messenger."

◼️ 1208. What strange sight does the messenger report?
(a) Blood in the sky. (b) Birnam wood moving. (c) A ghost army. (d) Lady Macbeth walking.
✅ Answer: (b) Birnam wood moving.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The wood began to move."

◼️ 1209. What does Macbeth threaten if the messenger lies?
(a) He’ll burn his home. (b) He’ll exile him. (c) He’ll hang him on a tree. (d) He’ll behead him.
✅ Answer: (c) He’ll hang him on a tree.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive."

◼️ 1210. What does Macbeth begin to doubt after hearing the report?
(a) His soldiers. (b) His courage. (c) The witches’ equivocation. (d) Lady Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) The witches’ equivocation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I pull in resolution; and begin / To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend."

◼️ 1211. "Out, out, brief candle!" is an example of—

(a) Simile. (b) Symbolism. (c) Apostrophe. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Apostrophe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Macbeth addresses “brief candle” as if it were a person.

◼️ 1212. What does “life’s but a walking shadow” symbolise?
(a) A ghostly curse. (b) A dream. (c) Emptiness and illusion. (d) Magical destiny.
✅ Answer: (c) Emptiness and illusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Life’s but a walking shadow."

◼️ 1213. The phrase “tale told by an idiot” is an example of—
(a) Irony. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A grand concept like life is reduced to nonsense, implying futility.

◼️ 1214. “Full of sound and fury” is best described as—
(a) Paradox. (b) Alliteration. (c) Symbolism. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (b) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition of the consonant 'f' in "full" and "fury."

◼️ 1215. “Poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage” is a—
(a) Metaphor for theatrical ambition. (b) Simile for courage. (c) Metaphor for the fleeting, meaningless nature of life. (d) Irony about acting.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor for the fleeting, meaningless nature of life.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "A poor player... and then is heard no more."

◼️ 1216. What does Macbeth’s weariness of the sun indicate?

(a) A desire to sleep. (b) Physical exhaustion. (c) A longing for death. (d) Hatred for nature.
✅ Answer: (c) A longing for death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I ’gin to be aweary of the sun."

◼️ 1217. “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” reflects Macbeth’s—
(a) Determination. (b) Madness. (c) Fatalistic view of time. (d) Memory of Lady Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) Fatalistic view of time.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

◼️ 1218. What does “dusty death” suggest?
(a) Peaceful burial. (b) Futility and decay. (c) Glorious afterlife. (d) Rebirth.
✅ Answer: (b) Futility and decay.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The way to dusty death."

◼️ 1219. Macbeth’s reaction to the Queen’s death implies—
(a) Emotional numbness. (b) Rage against the witches. (c) Plans for revenge. (d) Hope for salvation.
✅ Answer: (a) Emotional numbness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "She should have died hereafter."

◼️ 1220. What deeper truth is revealed in Macbeth’s view of life as a “tale told by an idiot”?
(a) That he sees life as a joke. (b) That history is meaningless. (c) That existence is chaotic and without purpose. (d) That only madness brings truth.
✅ Answer: (c) That existence is chaotic and without purpose.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing."

◼️ 1221. Why does Malcolm ask his soldiers to throw down their leafy screens?

(a) To surprise the enemy. (b) To start the battle. (c) To reveal their true numbers. (d) To surrender peacefully.
✅ Answer: (c) To reveal their true numbers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your leafy screens throw down, And show like those you are.”

◼️ 1222. Who is tasked with leading the first battle along with Siward’s noble son?

(a) Malcolm. (b) Macduff. (c) Old Siward. (d) Ross.
✅ Answer: (c) Old Siward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You, worthy uncle, Shall with my cousin, your right noble son, Lead our first battle.”

◼️ 1223. How does Siward express his readiness to fight Macbeth?

(a) By cursing Macbeth. (b) By saying defeat is impossible. (c) By challenging the tyrant to single combat. (d) By declaring they deserve defeat if they cannot fight.
✅ Answer: (d) By declaring they deserve defeat if they cannot fight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.”

◼️ 1224. What does Macduff instruct the trumpeters to do?

(a) Retreat. (b) Announce victory. (c) Sound for battle. (d) Alert the townspeople.
✅ Answer: (c) Sound for battle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”

◼️ 1225. How does Macbeth describe his situation using a beast metaphor?

(a) Like a hunted lion. (b) Like a bear tied to a stake. (c) Like a cornered fox. (d) Like a wounded wolf.
✅ Answer: (b) Like a bear tied to a stake.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But, bear-like I must fight the course.”

◼️ 1226. What characteristic of Macbeth does Young Siward hate most?

(a) His cruelty. (b) His name. (c) His army. (d) His voice.
✅ Answer: (b) His name.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear.”

◼️ 1227. How does Macbeth respond to Young Siward’s hatred?

(a) With an apology. (b) With anger. (c) With pride and scorn. (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (c) With pride and scorn.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, nor more fearful.”

◼️ 1228. What is the result of the fight between Macbeth and Young Siward?

(a) Young Siward is victorious. (b) Macbeth escapes. (c) Both are wounded. (d) Young Siward is killed.
✅ Answer: (d) Young Siward is killed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “[They fight, and young Siward is slain.]”

◼️ 1229. Why does Macbeth remain fearless after killing Young Siward?

(a) He knows he cannot die. (b) He believes Young Siward was born of woman. (c) He is under a spell. (d) He wants to die with honour.
✅ Answer: (b) He believes Young Siward was born of woman.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou wast born of woman. But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn.”

◼️ 1230. What does Macduff vow will haunt him if Macbeth is killed by someone else?

(a) His own conscience. (b) The witches. (c) The ghosts of his wife and children. (d) Malcolm’s wrath.
✅ Answer: (c) The ghosts of his wife and children.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.”

◼️ 1231. What kind of soldiers does Macduff refuse to fight?

(a) Trained knights. (b) Macbeth’s mercenaries. (c) Cowards. (d) English allies.
✅ Answer: (b) Macbeth’s mercenaries.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms Are hired to bear their staves.”

◼️ 1232. What is Macduff’s state of his sword before finding Macbeth?

(a) Broken and rusted. (b) Unused and unbattered. (c) Lost. (d) Bloodied.
✅ Answer: (b) Unused and unbattered.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Or else my sword, with an unbatter’d edge, I sheathe again undeeded.”

◼️ 1233. What does Macduff ask Fortune for?

(a) Victory and glory. (b) Mercy. (c) A fair fight. (d) Only to find Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (d) Only to find Macbeth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let me find him, Fortune! And more I beg not.”

◼️ 1234. What is revealed about Macbeth’s soldiers in Scene VII?

(a) They have fled. (b) They betrayed him. (c) They are fighting on both sides. (d) They are dead.
✅ Answer: (c) They are fighting on both sides.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight.”

◼️ 1235. What does Siward say about the castle in Scene VII?

(a) It is still under siege. (b) It has fallen. (c) It was burned. (d) It was surrendered gently.
✅ Answer: (d) It was surrendered gently.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This way, my lord;—the castle’s gently render’d.”

◼️ 1236. How does Malcolm describe their enemies?

(a) Merciless. (b) Afraid. (c) Defiant. (d) Striking beside them.
✅ Answer: (d) Striking beside them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have met with foes That strike beside us.”

◼️ 1237. What mood is shown by Macbeth's line, “Thou’lt be afraid to hear it”?

(a) Humility. (b) Mockery. (c) Arrogance. (d) Fear.
✅ Answer: (c) Arrogance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou’lt be afraid to hear it.”

◼️ 1238. Why does Young Siward say he will not be afraid?

(a) He has magic protection. (b) He’s braver than Macbeth. (c) Even a devil's name won’t scare him. (d) He trusts Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (c) Even a devil's name won’t scare him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No; though thou call’st thyself a hotter name Than any is in hell.”

◼️ 1239. What does Young Siward call Macbeth before the fight?

(a) The devil. (b) Tyrant. (c) Traitor. (d) Coward.
✅ Answer: (a) The devil.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear.”

◼️ 1240. What sound accompanies Scene VII's movement and tension?

(a) Drum rolls. (b) Alarums. (c) Trumpet calls. (d) Bell tolls.
✅ Answer: (b) Alarums.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Alarums.”

◼️ 1241. “Bear-like I must fight the course” contains which literary device?

(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Alliteration. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bear-like I must fight the course.”

◼️ 1242. What do the “leafy screens” symbolize?

(a) Cowardice. (b) Camouflage and strategy. (c) Nature’s aid. (d) Honour.
✅ Answer: (b) Camouflage and strategy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your leafy screens throw down.”

◼️ 1243. “Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death” is an example of—

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Synecdoche. (c) Metaphor. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath.”

◼️ 1244. “The day almost itself professes yours” implies—

(a) Time is ending. (b) Day has become loyal to Malcolm. (c) The sun will not rise. (d) No one will fight.
✅ Answer: (b) Day has become loyal to Malcolm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The day almost itself professes yours.”

◼️ 1245. “Strike beside us” may best be understood as—

(a) Killing allies. (b) Hesitating in battle. (c) Pretending to fight. (d) Switching allegiance.
✅ Answer: (d) Switching allegiance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have met with foes That strike beside us.”

◼️ 1246. “Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight” expresses—

(a) Confidence in the enemy. (b) Acceptance of fate. (c) Readiness and boldness. (d) Despair.
✅ Answer: (c) Readiness and boldness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.”

◼️ 1247. Macbeth's scorn for weapons reflects—

(a) Madness. (b) Invincibility belief. (c) Regret. (d) Religious faith.
✅ Answer: (b) Invincibility belief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish’d by man that’s of a woman born.”

◼️ 1248. “Thou’lt be afraid to hear it” implies Macbeth’s—

(a) Physical strength. (b) Terrible reputation. (c) Political power. (d) Supernatural nature.
✅ Answer: (b) Terrible reputation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thou’lt be afraid to hear it.”

◼️ 1249. Macduff’s refusal to kill hired soldiers suggests—

(a) Class discrimination. (b) Honourable revenge. (c) Tactical error. (d) Superstition.
✅ Answer: (b) Honourable revenge.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I cannot strike at wretched kerns... Either thou, Macbeth.”

◼️ 1250. “Let me find him, Fortune!” shows—

(a) Hopelessness. (b) Greed for power. (c) Obsession with vengeance. (d) Humour.
✅ Answer: (c) Obsession with vengeance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let me find him, Fortune! And more I beg not.”

◼️ 1251. Why does Macbeth reject the idea of suicide at the beginning of Scene VIII?

(a) He thinks it is cowardly. (b) He wants to die by Malcolm’s hands. (c) He still hopes for victory. (d) He wants to continue fighting as long as he lives.
✅ Answer: (d) He wants to continue fighting as long as he lives.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why should I play the Roman fool, and die / On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes / Do better upon them.”

◼️ 1252. What does Macduff call Macbeth during their final encounter?
(a) Traitor king (b) Bloody butcher (c) Hell-hound (d) Usurper
✅ Answer: (c) Hell-hound
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Turn, hell-hound, turn!”

◼️ 1253. Why does Macbeth say he has avoided Macduff until now?
(a) He feared Macduff’s strength. (b) He wanted to fight him last. (c) He felt guilty for killing his family. (d) He knew he couldn’t defeat him.
✅ Answer: (c) He felt guilty for killing his family.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But get thee back; my soul is too much charg’d / With blood of thine already.”

◼️ 1254. What does Macbeth claim protects him from harm in battle?
(a) His charm (b) His prophecy (c) His strength (d) His sword
✅ Answer: (b) His prophecy
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield / To one of woman born.”

◼️ 1255. What revelation shatters Macbeth’s confidence in the witches’ prophecy?
(a) Macduff has divine protection. (b) Macduff is a ghost. (c) Macduff was not born of a woman naturally. (d) Macduff’s sword is enchanted.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff was not born of a woman naturally.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d.”

◼️ 1256. What does Macbeth call the witches after learning the truth?
(a) Damn’d deceivers (b) Cursed liars (c) Juggling fiends (d) False prophets
✅ Answer: (c) Juggling fiends
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And be these juggling fiends no more believ’d, / That palter with us in a double sense.”

◼️ 1257. What is Macduff’s threat if Macbeth refuses to fight?
(a) He will burn the castle. (b) He will expose him as a coward. (c) He will imprison him. (d) He will haunt him.
✅ Answer: (b) He will expose him as a coward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then yield thee, coward, / And live to be the show and gaze o’ th’ time.”

◼️ 1258. What does Macbeth vow just before the final fight?
(a) To seek mercy. (b) To surrender. (c) To die honorably. (d) To kill Macduff at any cost.
✅ Answer: (c) To die honorably.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield.”

◼️ 1259. What happens immediately after Macbeth’s death?
(a) Macduff dies too. (b) Malcolm is crowned. (c) Macduff enters with Macbeth’s head. (d) The witches reappear.
✅ Answer: (c) Macduff enters with Macbeth’s head.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head.”

◼️ 1260. What does Macduff proclaim upon entering with Macbeth’s head?
(a) Peace is restored. (b) The tyrant is dead. (c) Hail, King. (d) Long live Malcolm.
✅ Answer: (c) Hail, King.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands / Th’ usurper’s cursed head.”

◼️ 1261. How do the nobles respond to Macduff’s proclamation?
(a) Hail, Malcolm! (b) Hail, King of Scotland! (c) Victory to Macduff! (d) Peace to the realm!
✅ Answer: (b) Hail, King of Scotland!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “ALL. Hail, King of Scotland!”

◼️ 1262. What title does Malcolm bestow on the thanes?
(a) Dukes (b) Knights (c) Lords (d) Earls
✅ Answer: (d) Earls
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My thanes and kinsmen, / Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland / In such an honour nam’d.”

◼️ 1263. What political act does Malcolm plan first as king?
(a) Punishing Macbeth’s allies. (b) Raising taxes. (c) Recalling exiles. (d) Destroying Dunsinane.
✅ Answer: (c) Recalling exiles.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As calling home our exil’d friends abroad, / That fled the snares of watchful tyranny.”

◼️ 1264. How does Malcolm describe Lady Macbeth?
(a) The tyrant’s widow. (b) A noblewoman lost. (c) A fiend-like queen. (d) A tragic soul.
✅ Answer: (c) A fiend-like queen
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen.”

◼️ 1265. According to Ross, how did young Siward die?
(a) Betrayed by Macbeth (b) In flight (c) Like a man, bravely (d) After surrendering
✅ Answer: (c) Like a man, bravely
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But like a man he died.”

◼️ 1266. What does Siward ask Ross regarding his son’s death?
(a) If he cried for mercy (b) If he ran (c) If he died in pain (d) If he had his wounds on the front
✅ Answer: (d) If he had his wounds on the front
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Had he his hurts before?” / “Ay, on the front.”

◼️ 1267. What does Siward say he would do if he had more sons?
(a) Train them for vengeance (b) Not send them to war (c) Not wish them to a fairer death (d) Mourn them longer
✅ Answer: (c) Not wish them to a fairer death
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Had I as many sons as I have hairs, / I would not wish them to a fairer death.”

◼️ 1268. What is meant by “He’s worth more sorrow”?
(a) Young Siward deserved a statue. (b) His bravery merits deep mourning. (c) He fought poorly. (d) He should be avenged.
✅ Answer: (b) His bravery merits deep mourning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He’s worth more sorrow, / And that I’ll spend for him.”

◼️ 1269. What is Malcolm’s final promise in the play?
(a) A grand feast. (b) To marry Macduff’s daughter. (c) A just rule, in time and measure. (d) An end to all battles.
✅ Answer: (c) A just rule, in time and measure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We will perform in measure, time, and place.”

◼️ 1270. Where does Malcolm invite all to go at the end?
(a) Dunsinane (b) England (c) For burial rites (d) To see his coronation at Scone
✅ Answer: (d) To see his coronation at Scone
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Whom we invite to see us crown’d at Scone.”

◼️ 1271. What does Macbeth mean by “I bear a charmed life”?

(a) He is under a divine blessing. (b) He wears magical armor. (c) He believes in his invincibility by prophecy. (d) He is charmed by Lady Macbeth.
✅ Answer: (c) He believes in his invincibility by prophecy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I bear a charmed life, which must not yield / To one of woman born.”

◼️ 1272. What literary device is used in “My voice is in my sword”?
(a) Metaphor (b) Hyperbole (c) Personification (d) Irony
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have no words; / My voice is in my sword.”

◼️ 1273. “Juggling fiends” is an example of which figure?
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Synecdoche (d) Oxymoron
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And be these juggling fiends no more believ’d.”

◼️ 1274. What symbolic meaning lies in Macbeth’s refusal to “kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”?
(a) Refusal of divine forgiveness. (b) Rejection of surrender and shame. (c) Loyalty to Banquo. (d) Hatred of England.
✅ Answer: (b) Rejection of surrender and shame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I will not yield, / To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet.”

◼️ 1275. “Painted upon a pole” suggests what symbolic fate?
(a) Death in war (b) A hero’s portrait (c) Public shaming and mockery (d) Memory through art
✅ Answer: (c) Public shaming and mockery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, / Painted upon a pole.”

◼️ 1276. What inner change does Macbeth experience after hearing Macduff’s birth?

(a) He gains courage. (b) He mocks the prophecy. (c) He becomes fatalistic. (d) He plans to escape.
✅ Answer: (c) He becomes fatalistic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll not fight with thee.” / “Yet I will try the last.”

◼️ 1277. What does Malcolm mean by “the time is free”?
(a) The prophecy is fulfilled. (b) Scotland is liberated. (c) Macbeth is dead. (d) Time is meaningless now.
✅ Answer: (b) Scotland is liberated.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The time is free.”

◼️ 1278. “So great a day as this is cheaply bought”—what does this suggest?
(a) Victory was easy. (b) Few losses for great gain. (c) Peace is costly. (d) Death is meaningless.
✅ Answer: (b) Few losses for great gain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “So great a day as this is cheaply bought.”

◼️ 1279. “And so, God be with him!”—What does this imply about Siward’s attitude?
(a) Indifference to loss (b) Acceptance and honor (c) Hatred for Macbeth (d) Religious guilt
✅ Answer: (b) Acceptance and honor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And so, God be with him!”

◼️ 1280. Why does Malcolm call Macbeth a “dead butcher”?
(a) Because he was an actual butcher (b) For his military skill (c) For his cruelty and murders (d) As a compliment
✅ Answer: (c) For his cruelty and murders
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen.”

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