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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lamb to the Slaughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary doing as she enters her home from the store?
(a) Crying and thinking
(b) Humming and smiling
(c) Laughing and giggling
(d) Frowning and praying

2. Where in “Lamb to the Slaughter” does the rising action take place?
(a) When Patrick tells Mary he’s leaving her
(b) When the police arrive at Mary’s door
(c) When Mary calls the police
(d) When Mary goes to the store

3. Patrick tells Mary after relating his story that “there needn’t really be any” what?
(a) Fuss
(b) Agony
(c) Yelling
(d) Hatred

4. What is the first sound that Mary hears of her husband’s arrival in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?
(a) Coughing
(b) Tires on the gravel
(c) Singing
(d) A creaking gate

5. Of the murder weapon, one of the policemen in the kitchen says, "Whoever done it, they're not going to be carrying a thing like that around with them longer than they” what?
(a) Got to
(b) Need
(c) Should
(d) Can

Short Answer Questions

1. “Lamb to the Slaughter” was written and is presumably set in what era?

2. Patrick tells Mary that what he has to say will be what to her in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

3. What is Mary’s response when the police officer on the phone asks, “Who’s speaking?”

4. What is described in the Thermos bucket in the opening of “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

5. How is the drink that Mary mixes for herself described in “Lamb to the Slaughter”?

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