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1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 68 votes (75.56%)
Banquo: 10 votes (11.11%)
Lady Macbeth: 3 votes (3.33%)
Malcolm: 9 votes (10%)
Total Votes: 90
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 0 votes (0%)
2: 13 votes (20.97%)
3: 48 votes (77.42%)
4: 1 votes (1.61%)
Total Votes: 62
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 6 votes (9.09%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 50 votes (75.76%)
The porter: 5 votes (7.58%)
Macbeth: 5 votes (7.58%)
Total Votes: 66
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 1 votes (1.85%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.85%)
Macbeth: 11 votes (20.37%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 41 votes (75.93%)
Total Votes: 54
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 34 votes (53.97%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 6 votes (9.52%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 18 votes (28.57%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 5 votes (7.94%)
Total Votes: 63
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 3 votes (6.12%)
Ross: 8 votes (16.33%)
Macduff: 32 votes (65.31%)
Donalbain: 6 votes (12.24%)
Total Votes: 49
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (2.27%)
Banquos ghost: 36 votes (81.82%)
Duncan’s ghost: 6 votes (13.64%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (2.27%)
Total Votes: 44
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 4 votes (8.16%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 1 votes (2.04%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 3 votes (6.12%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 41 votes (83.67%)
Total Votes: 49
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 45 votes (81.82%)
Denmark: 4 votes (7.27%)
Poland: 5 votes (9.09%)
Finland: 1 votes (1.82%)
Total Votes: 55

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