The Macbeth Study Quiz

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Dunsinane is the setting of Act 5 and the location where Macbeth is slain. Although Shakespeare and the author of his primary source, Raphael Holinshed, report that Macbeth was killed at Dunsinane, the historical Macbeth actually survived the battle and was killed three years later, in 1057, by Malcolm and his army.

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