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Study Guide: Macbeth: Macbeth Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 88 votes (76.52%)
Banquo: 10 votes (8.7%)
Lady Macbeth: 2 votes (1.74%)
Malcolm: 15 votes (13.04%)
Total Votes: 115
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 5 votes (5.62%)
2: 21 votes (23.6%)
3: 62 votes (69.66%)
4: 1 votes (1.12%)
Total Votes: 89
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 10 votes (12.2%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 60 votes (73.17%)
The porter: 5 votes (6.1%)
Macbeth: 7 votes (8.54%)
Total Votes: 82
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 2 votes (2.6%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.3%)
Macbeth: 19 votes (24.68%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 55 votes (71.43%)
Total Votes: 77
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 36 votes (48.65%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 10 votes (13.51%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 26 votes (35.14%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 2 votes (2.7%)
Total Votes: 74
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 7 votes (10.94%)
Ross: 10 votes (15.63%)
Macduff: 41 votes (64.06%)
Donalbain: 6 votes (9.38%)
Total Votes: 64
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (1.64%)
Banquos ghost: 50 votes (81.97%)
Duncan’s ghost: 9 votes (14.75%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (1.64%)
Total Votes: 61
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 2 votes (3.28%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 2 votes (3.28%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 2 votes (3.28%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 55 votes (90.16%)
Total Votes: 61
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 54 votes (70.13%)
Denmark: 15 votes (19.48%)
Poland: 6 votes (7.79%)
Finland: 2 votes (2.6%)
Total Votes: 77

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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