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Study Guide: Macbeth: Macbeth Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 86 votes (76.79%)
Banquo: 10 votes (8.93%)
Lady Macbeth: 2 votes (1.79%)
Malcolm: 14 votes (12.5%)
Total Votes: 112
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 4 votes (4.65%)
2: 21 votes (24.42%)
3: 60 votes (69.77%)
4: 1 votes (1.16%)
Total Votes: 86
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 10 votes (12.66%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 57 votes (72.15%)
The porter: 5 votes (6.33%)
Macbeth: 7 votes (8.86%)
Total Votes: 79
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 1 votes (1.37%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.37%)
Macbeth: 17 votes (23.29%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 54 votes (73.97%)
Total Votes: 73
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 36 votes (49.32%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 10 votes (13.7%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 25 votes (34.25%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 2 votes (2.74%)
Total Votes: 73
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 7 votes (11.11%)
Ross: 10 votes (15.87%)
Macduff: 40 votes (63.49%)
Donalbain: 6 votes (9.52%)
Total Votes: 63
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (1.67%)
Banquos ghost: 50 votes (83.33%)
Duncan’s ghost: 8 votes (13.33%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (1.67%)
Total Votes: 60
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 2 votes (3.33%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 2 votes (3.33%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 1 votes (1.67%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 55 votes (91.67%)
Total Votes: 60
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 53 votes (70.67%)
Denmark: 15 votes (20%)
Poland: 5 votes (6.67%)
Finland: 2 votes (2.67%)
Total Votes: 75

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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