Explore BrainMass

Explore BrainMass

    Macbeth Comprehension Act Five

    Test your knowledge on the final Act of Shakespeare's final play. Choose the best answers to questions about plot, characters, and imagery from this Act.

    1

    What does Lady Macbeth command to be at her side at all times?

    2

    What can be concluded from Lady's Macbeth's famous, "Out, damned spot!" quote?

    3

    Who is meeting Angus, Lennox, Menteith, and Caithness at Birnam Wood?

    4

    What does Macbeth doubt after hearing news from attendants, doctors, and servants?

    5

    What does the doctor finally tell Macbeth about the healing of his wife?

    6

    How does Macbeth respond to the sound of the women crying as the army moves out?

    7

    To what does Macbeth say to the servant, "If thou speak’st false,
    Upon the next tree shall thou hang alive?"

    8

    What does the young Siward hear from Macbeth before he dies?

    9

    What does Macbeth refer to in this quote, "Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear,"

    10

    Who ultimately kills Macbeth, having not been born from a woman, but delivered by a Caesarian section?