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Study Guide: Macbeth: Macbeth Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 103 votes (77.44%)
Banquo: 11 votes (8.27%)
Lady Macbeth: 3 votes (2.26%)
Malcolm: 16 votes (12.03%)
Total Votes: 133
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 5 votes (4.95%)
2: 24 votes (23.76%)
3: 71 votes (70.3%)
4: 1 votes (0.99%)
Total Votes: 101
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 10 votes (10.99%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 69 votes (75.82%)
The porter: 5 votes (5.49%)
Macbeth: 7 votes (7.69%)
Total Votes: 91
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 2 votes (2.35%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.18%)
Macbeth: 19 votes (22.35%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 63 votes (74.12%)
Total Votes: 85
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 45 votes (49.45%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 13 votes (14.29%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 30 votes (32.97%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 3 votes (3.3%)
Total Votes: 91
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 10 votes (13.7%)
Ross: 11 votes (15.07%)
Macduff: 44 votes (60.27%)
Donalbain: 8 votes (10.96%)
Total Votes: 73
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (1.41%)
Banquos ghost: 56 votes (78.87%)
Duncan’s ghost: 13 votes (18.31%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (1.41%)
Total Votes: 71
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 2 votes (2.74%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 2 votes (2.74%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 3 votes (4.11%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 66 votes (90.41%)
Total Votes: 73
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 64 votes (68.82%)
Denmark: 17 votes (18.28%)
Poland: 9 votes (9.68%)
Finland: 3 votes (3.23%)
Total Votes: 93

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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