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Study Guide: Macbeth: Macbeth Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 97 votes (76.38%)
Banquo: 11 votes (8.66%)
Lady Macbeth: 3 votes (2.36%)
Malcolm: 16 votes (12.6%)
Total Votes: 127
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 5 votes (5.15%)
2: 24 votes (24.74%)
3: 67 votes (69.07%)
4: 1 votes (1.03%)
Total Votes: 97
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 10 votes (11.49%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 65 votes (74.71%)
The porter: 5 votes (5.75%)
Macbeth: 7 votes (8.05%)
Total Votes: 87
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 2 votes (2.44%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.22%)
Macbeth: 19 votes (23.17%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 60 votes (73.17%)
Total Votes: 82
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 43 votes (50%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 11 votes (12.79%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 29 votes (33.72%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 3 votes (3.49%)
Total Votes: 86
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 10 votes (14.49%)
Ross: 10 votes (14.49%)
Macduff: 42 votes (60.87%)
Donalbain: 7 votes (10.14%)
Total Votes: 69
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (1.47%)
Banquos ghost: 53 votes (77.94%)
Duncan’s ghost: 13 votes (19.12%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (1.47%)
Total Votes: 68
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 2 votes (2.9%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 2 votes (2.9%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 3 votes (4.35%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 62 votes (89.86%)
Total Votes: 69
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 60 votes (68.97%)
Denmark: 16 votes (18.39%)
Poland: 8 votes (9.2%)
Finland: 3 votes (3.45%)
Total Votes: 87

For a full Macbeth Quiz visit SparkNotes.

This Quiz is taken from SparkNotes Editors. (2002). SparkNote on Macbeth. Retrieved July 8, 2017, from http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/

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