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1. Who kills Macbeth?
Macduff: 67 votes (75.28%)
Banquo: 10 votes (11.24%)
Lady Macbeth: 3 votes (3.37%)
Malcolm: 9 votes (10.11%)
Total Votes: 89
2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?
1: 0 votes (0%)
2: 12 votes (19.67%)
3: 48 votes (78.69%)
4: 1 votes (1.64%)
Total Votes: 61
3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?
Malcolm and Donalbain: 6 votes (9.23%)
Duncan’s drunken chamberlains: 49 votes (75.38%)
The porter: 5 votes (7.69%)
Macbeth: 5 votes (7.69%)
Total Votes: 65
4. Who kills Banquo?
Macduff: 1 votes (1.89%)
Fleance: 1 votes (1.89%)
Macbeth: 11 votes (20.75%)
A group of murderers hired by Macbeth: 40 votes (75.47%)
Total Votes: 53
5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?
She dies offstage.: 34 votes (54.84%)
She sleepwalks off of the palace wall.: 6 votes (9.68%)
She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife.: 18 votes (29.03%)
Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder.: 4 votes (6.45%)
Total Votes: 62
6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?
Lennox: 3 votes (6.25%)
Ross: 8 votes (16.67%)
Macduff: 31 votes (64.58%)
Donalbain: 6 votes (12.5%)
Total Votes: 48
7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?
himself: 1 votes (2.33%)
Banquos ghost: 35 votes (81.4%)
Duncan’s ghost: 6 votes (13.95%)
Lady Macbeth: 1 votes (2.33%)
Total Votes: 43
8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?
He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood.: 4 votes (8.33%)
He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow.: 1 votes (2.08%)
He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight.: 3 votes (6.25%)
He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber.: 40 votes (83.33%)
Total Votes: 48
9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?
Norway: 44 votes (81.48%)
Denmark: 4 votes (7.41%)
Poland: 5 votes (9.26%)
Finland: 1 votes (1.85%)
Total Votes: 54

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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/