Grades 9–10 · Literature
This quiz helps revise “Shakespeare: Macbeth” in Literature for grades 9–10. It has 25 questions in five categories: People and Power, Turning Points, Motives and Symbols, On the Page, World Behind the Play. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which king is murdered while staying as a guest at Macbeth's castle?
Which friend of Macbeth returns as a ghost at the royal banquet?
Which son escapes the…
In the gameWhich grieving father insists…
In the gameWhich prince tests a…
In the gameWho predicts that Macbeth will become king when he returns from battle?
What weapon, as a vision, seems to lead Macbeth towards the king's chamber before the murder?
What new title is…
In the gameWhat does the attacking…
In the gameHow was Macbeth's final…
In the gameWhat desire for personal success and power drives Macbeth to seize the throne?
What feeling is suggested by Lady Macbeth's repeated attempts to wash imagined stains from her hands?
After the king's murder…
In the gameMacbeth calls his crown…
In the gameWhat concept, often contrasted…
In the gameWhat type of play is Macbeth, in which the central character's choices lead to his downfall?
What is a speech called when Macbeth speaks his private thoughts aloud while alone on stage?
Macbeth calls life a…
In the gameThe audience knows who…
In the gameWhat metre gives much…
In the gameIn which country is most of Macbeth set?
Which king of England, shown in this portrait, was patron of Shakespeare's acting company when Macbeth was written?
Which belief, important to…
In the gameWhich failed attempt to…
In the gameWhose Chronicles provided Shakespeare…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.