Macbeth Test Bank 100 Questions and Answer Key
Exam (elaborations)
, The
Tragedy of
Macbeth
,MACBETH COMMON CORE TEST BANK
100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER KEY
, Name Date Period
Read the following passages from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the
prompts that follow each passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.
Act I Scene iii Lines 38- 61
MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
40
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? Or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand
me, By each at once her chappy finger laying
45
Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
MACBETH Speak, if you can. What are you?
First Witch All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
Second Witch All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of
Cawdor! Third Witch 50
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king
hereafter!
BANQUO Good sir, why do you start and seem to
fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
55
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak
not. If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
60
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
1. (RL6) Which of the following lines is an example of paradox?
A. line 38 B. line 50 C. lines 51-52 D. line 55
Exam (elaborations)
, The
Tragedy of
Macbeth
,MACBETH COMMON CORE TEST BANK
100 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER KEY
, Name Date Period
Read the following passages from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Choose the best responses to the
prompts that follow each passage. There is one and only one correct answer to each prompt.
Act I Scene iii Lines 38- 61
MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
40
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? Or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand
me, By each at once her chappy finger laying
45
Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
MACBETH Speak, if you can. What are you?
First Witch All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
Second Witch All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of
Cawdor! Third Witch 50
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king
hereafter!
BANQUO Good sir, why do you start and seem to
fear Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
55
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak
not. If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
60
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
1. (RL6) Which of the following lines is an example of paradox?
A. line 38 B. line 50 C. lines 51-52 D. line 55
