Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth: “Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As
the weird women promised, and, I fear, / Thou play'dst most foully for't...”
Selected
Answer: Banquo
Question 2
2 out of 2 points
Name the famous Roman historical figure Hamlet says might now be so much clay
patching “a hole to keep the wind away”?
Selected
Answer:
Julius
Caesar
Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet: “O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The
courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the
fair state, / The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all
observers, quite, quite down!”
Selected
Answer: Ophelia
Question 4
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth act 4, scene 3: “Fit to govern! / No, not to live. O
nation / miserable, / With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d, / When shalt thou see
thy wholesome days again . . .”
Selected
Answer: Macduff
Question 5
2 out of 2 points
King Claudius tells Laertes he will not execute Hamlet because the prince is . . .
Selected
Answer: Loved by the people.
Question 6
2 out of 2 points
What Renaissance historian did Shakespeare consult for the plot of Macbeth?
Selected
Answer: Holinshed
Question 7
2 out of 2 points
What play does Hamlet ask the players to perform at the end of act 2 (that will be
performed with Hamlet's modifications in act 3)?
Selected
Answer: The Murder of Gonzago
Question 8
0 out of 2 points
In Macbeth’s second meeting (in act 4) with the weird sisters, they conjure up 3
apparitions with 3 prophecies. Name the third apparition and its corresponding pro-
phecy. (And do not consider the prophecy concerning Banquo & his heirs.)
Selected
Answer: Bloody child / No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
Question 9
2 out of 2 points
What foreign country is attacking Scotland at the beginning of Macbeth?
Selected
Answer: Norway
Question 10
2 out of 2 points
Who is the pagan deity of the night that the weird sisters invoke in Macbeth?
Selected
Answer: Hecate
Question 11
2 out of 2 points
From act 4, scene 3 of Macbeth, name the second of Malcolm’s specific “sins” that
he gives to Macduff as “reason” why he should not be king.
Selected
Answer: Greed
Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet: “For Hecuba! / What's Hecuba to him, or he to
Hecuba, / That he should weep for her? What / would he do, / Had he the motive and
the cue for passion / That I have?”
Selected
Answer: Hamlet
Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Scholars know that Shakespeare based Hamlet on a previously existing and popular
Elizabethan play? Name the playwright.
Selected
Answer: Thomas Kyd
Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet act 5: “Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a
special / providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, / 'tis not to come; if it be not
to come, it will be / now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the / readiness is all.”
Selected
Answer: Hamlet
Question 15
2 out of 2 points
The traitorous Scottish thane from Act I, sc. ii whose title goes to Macbeth is the
Thane of . . .
Selected
Answer: Cawdo
r
Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth act 5: “...this, and what needful else / That calls
upon us, by the grace of Grace, / We will perform in measure, time and place.”
Selected
Answer: Malcolm
Question 17
2 out of 2 points
To what country does King Claudius send Hamlet to have him executed?
Selected
Answer: England
Question 18
0 out of 2 points
In Macbeth’s second meeting (in act 4) with the weird sisters, they conjure up 3
apparitions with 3 prophecies. Name the second apparition and its corresponding
pro-phecy. (And do not consider the prophecy concerning Banquo & his heirs.)
Selected
Answer: Child with tree / Macbeth shall be king till Birnam wood move . . .
Question 19
2 out of 2 points
From act 4, scene 3 of Macbeth, name the first of Malcolm’s specific “sins” that he
gives to Macduff as “reason” why he should not be king.
Selected
Answer: Lust
Question 20
2 out of 2 points
While he is being sent abroad (to be executed), Hamlet alters the letter from
Claudius to the king of that country so that some other person(s) will be executed
instead. Who?
Selected
Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Question 21
2 out of 2 points
At the end of act 2, scene 3 of Macbeth, what character flees to England?
Selected Malcolm
Answer:
Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet act 5: “Now cracks a noble heart. / Good night
sweet prince: / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
Selected
Answer: Horatio
Question 23
2 out of 2 points
To whom does Hamlet give his "dying voice" as successor to the throne of Denmark?
Selected
Answer: Fortinbras
Question 24
2 out of 2 points
In the following quotation, to whom is Horatio referring: “Such was the very armour
he had on / When he the ambitious Norway combated; / So frown'd he once, when,
in an angry parle, / He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. / 'Tis strange.”
Selected
Answer: The Ghost
Question 25
2 out of 2 points
Claudius' exclaims in act 4, scene 5, "Where are my Switzers!" What are "Switzers"?
Selected
Answer: Mercenaries
Question 26
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth in this quotation: “Come, you spirits / That tend
on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full /
Of direst cruelty!”
Selected
Answer: Lady Macbeth
Question 27
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth in this quotation: “No, this my hand will rather /
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.”
Selected
Answer: Macbeth
Question 28
2 out of 2 points
After Duncan’s murder, Lady Macbeth declares, “A little __________ clears of of the
deed.”
Selected
Answer: Water
Question 29
2 out of 2 points
In act 1, scene 2 of Hamlet, we find that Hamlet has been attending school at a
famous university. Name it.
Selected
Answer: Wittenberg
Question 30
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Macbeth act 5: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, /
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time . . .”
Selected
Answer: Macbeth
Question 31
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet: “O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven; / It
hath the primal eldest curse upon't, / A brother's murder. Pray can I not, / Though
inclination be as sharp as will…”
Selected
Answer: King Claudius
Question 32
2 out of 2 points
Whom is Macduff speaking of here (from Act II, sc. iii): “O horror, horror, horror!
Tongue nor heart / Cannot conceive nor name thee!”
Selected
Answer: The dead Duncan.
Question 33
2 out of 2 points
What country threatens Denmark at the beginning of Hamlet as evidenced in
Marcellus’s question, “Why this same strict and most observant watch / So nightly
toils the subject of the land, / And why such daily cast of brazen cannon [?]”?
Selected
Answer: Norway
Question 34
2 out of 2 points
Whom does Hamlet kill in act 3 when he cries, “How now? A rat? Dead for a ducat,
dead!”?
Selected
Answer: Polonius
Question 35
0 out of 2 points
In act 5, whom is Hamlet speaking to when he says the following? “Forty thousand
brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum.”
Selected
Answer: Ophelia
Question 36
2 out of 2 points
In Macbeth’s second meeting with the weird sisters, they conjure up 3 apparitions
with 3 prophecies. Name the first apparition and its corresponding prophecy. (And do
not consider the prophecy concerning Banquo & his heirs.)
Selected
Answer: Armed head / Beware the thane of Fife!
Question 37
0 out of 2 points
“In act 2, scene 1 of Macbeth, what is Macbeth talking about in the following lines? “I
have thee not, and yet I see thee still. / Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling
as to sight?”
Selected
Answer: The Weird Sisters
Question 38
2 out of 2 points
In Hamlet, in what country is Laertes when he hears of his father’s death?
Selected
Answer: France
Question 39
2 out of 2 points
Name the king mentioned in act 4, scene 3 of Macbeth, whose hands heal and who
leaves a “holy benediction” to “succeeding royalty.”
Selected
Answer: Edward the Confessor
Question 40
2 out of 2 points
Choose the speaker from Hamlet: “Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, /
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, / No reckoning made, but sent to my account /
With all my imperfections on my head.”
Selected
Answer: The Ghost
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