Macbeth Test Review

A thane who delivers many messages, one to Macbeth at the beginning and then another to Lady Macduff near the end

• Duncan
• Ross
• Siward
• Banquo

Man who will be “lesser than Macbeth”

• Banquo
• Ross
• Lennox
• Hecate

When a character speaks only to himself alone on the stage

• Aside
• Sleep talking
• Soliloquy 
• Speech

When the audience knows something the character does not know. 

• Secrets
• Dramatic Irony
• Foreshadowing
• Metaphor

When a character speaks to himself only when others are on stage

• Aside
• Sleep talking
• Soliloquy 
• Speech

The opposite of what should be

• simile
• characterization
• foreshadowing
• irony

The poetic method that Shakespeare employs in his dramas is which of the following

• trochaic octameter
• iambic pentameter
• rhyming couplets
• inverted prose

The fact that Scotland is involved in a war is an example of which function of tragedy’s plot structure

• exposition
• rising action
• climax
• prologue 

Before we actually see Macbeth, we learn that is a/an 

• traitor
• king
• brave warrior
• all of these

Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to unsex her because

• she was unable to conceive a child
• she wanted to embody the male-oriented tendencies toward cruelty and violence
• traditional women’s roles required her to refrain from ordering her husband around
• she needed to be free from lustful thoughts in order to carry out her plan.