SparkNotes: Macbeth: Quiz

1. Who kills Macbeth?

(A) Macduff

(B) Banquo

(C) Lady Macbeth

(D) Malcolm

2. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

3. Whom does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?

(A) Malcolm and Donalbain

(B) Duncan’s drunken chamberlains

(C) The porter

(D) Macbeth

4. Who kills Banquo?

(A) Macduff

(B) Fleance

(C) Macbeth

(D) A group of murderers hired by Macbeth

5. Which of the following best describes Lady Macbeth’s death?

(A) She dies offstage

(B) She sleepwalks off of the palace wall

(C) She declares her own guilt and stabs herself with a knife

(D) Macduff slays her in revenge for his own wife’s murder

6. Who discovers Duncan’s body?

(A) Lennox

(B) Ross

(C) Macduff

(D) Donalbain

7. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Banquo’s ghost

(C) Duncan’s ghost

(D) Lady Macbeth

8. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?

(A) He sees a floating head urging him to spill blood

(B) He sees a bloody axe lodged in Duncan’s brow

(C) He sees a pale maiden weeping in the moonlight

(D) He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber

9. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?

(A) Norway

(B) Denmark

(C) Poland

(D) Finland

10. Which nation’s army invades Scotland at the end of the play?

(A) Norway

(B) France

(C) England

(D) Finland

11. Who is the goddess of witchcraft in the play?

(A) Aphrodite

(B) Hecate

(C) Minerva

(D) Mordred

12. Who kills Donalbain?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Malcolm

(C) A group of murderers hired by Macbeth

(D) No one

13. What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies?

(A) She is plagued by fits of sleepwalking

(B) She is haunted by the ghost of Duncan

(C) She sees her children killed in battle

(D) She sees her children killed by Macbeth

14. Who kills Lord Siward’s son?

(A) Duncan

(B) Lennox

(C) Macbeth

(D) Ross

15. Where are Scottish kings crowned?

(A) Edinburgh

(B) Scone

(C) London

(D) Dunsinane

16. Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the witches’ prophecy?

(A) He kills the witches first

(B) He receives a charm from Grinswindle

(C) He is a powerful warlock himself

(D) He was born by cesarean section

17. Where is Duncan killed?

(A) In the battle with Norway

(B) In his bedchamber at Macbeth’s castle

(C) In his bedchamber at Forres

(D) At Birnam Wood

18. Who flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England?

(A) Donalbain

(B) Ross

(C) Macduff

(D) Lennox

19. What was the weather like the night Duncan was murdered?

(A) Stormy and violent

(B) Calm and placid

(C) Foggy and ominous

(D) It was a night like any other night, according to Lennox

20. Who kills Lady Macbeth?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Macduff

(C) Lady Macduff

(D) Lady Macbeth

21. Who flees Scotland immediately after Duncan’s death?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Malcolm and Donalbain

(C) Fleance

(D) Lennox

22. Who jokes that he works at “hell gate”?

(A) Macbeth

(B) Macduff

(C) The porter

(D) Duncan

23. What title is Macbeth given after his victory described in Act I?

(A) Thane of Cawdor

(B) Thane of Ross

(C) King of Scotland

(D) Prince of Cumberland

24. Who tells Macduff that his family has been killed?

(A) Donalbain

(B) Macbeth

(C) Lady Macduff

(D) Ross

25. How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane?

(A) By magic

(B) Through an earthquake

(C) It doesn’t

(D) Malcolm’s army hides behind cut-off tree branches