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Study Guide: Macbeth: Macbeth Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 102 votes (77.27%)
Banquo: 11 votes (8.33%)
Lady Macbeth: 3 votes (2.27%)
Malcolm: 16 votes (12.12%)
Total Votes: 132
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 5 votes (5%)
2: 24 votes (24%)
3: 70 votes (70%)
4: 1 votes (1%)
Total Votes: 100
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 10 votes (11.11%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 68 votes (75.56%)
The porter: 5 votes (5.56%)
Macbeth: 7 votes (7.78%)
Total Votes: 90
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 2 votes (2.38%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.19%)
Macbeth: 19 votes (22.62%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 62 votes (73.81%)
Total Votes: 84
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 45 votes (50%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 12 votes (13.33%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 30 votes (33.33%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 3 votes (3.33%)
Total Votes: 90
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 10 votes (13.89%)
Ross: 11 votes (15.28%)
Macduff: 43 votes (59.72%)
Donalbain: 8 votes (11.11%)
Total Votes: 72
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (1.43%)
Banquos ghost: 55 votes (78.57%)
Duncan’s ghost: 13 votes (18.57%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (1.43%)
Total Votes: 70
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 2 votes (2.78%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 2 votes (2.78%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 3 votes (4.17%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 65 votes (90.28%)
Total Votes: 72
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 63 votes (69.23%)
Denmark: 16 votes (17.58%)
Poland: 9 votes (9.89%)
Finland: 3 votes (3.3%)
Total Votes: 91

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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